Semi-OT: MGoBookclub During this Offseason?

Is there free Bud Light?

i can barely make it through the Wall Street Journal due to my hummingbird-like attention span

OP:  As an Mgoblogger, you must have a pretty high interest in Bo and all things Michigan.  The book itself is a really good read.  How could you be patient enough to take 'the next couple of months' to read it?

/not being snarky, genuinely curious

I'm a voracious reader when I can put this damn laptop down, so I would participate.   My request would be alternating a Michigan football book with a completely non-Michigan-football book that has high general life value, or perhaps the book of a coach outside the Big 10 coaching sphere.   Coaches books translate well to business.  I'll check back for updates.

EDIT:  I think that should be 'coach's' books.  Well, whatever.

I'd be up for this.  

I am reading Age of Fracture by Daniel T Rodgers, which looks at US ideology from post WWII to 9/11. Interesting read.

Unbroken by Laura Hillabrand was exellent too.

Any idea that promotes reading books has to be a good one.

I like the idea, count me in

Sounds like a great idea

and I like the alternating book idea as well.

... some of the OSU folks started a book club, too.  Here's their first book:

but this would be better if it could be live and verbal as opposed to typing which takes longer and is less spontaneous.  

Would a conference call, or even a video conference call, be cool (could we even do that through Go To Meeting, Skype, etc.)?  Maybe just a diary post with lots of comments would be better though. I don't know.

P.S. just started reading another Bacon book, Blue Ice: The Story of Michigan Hockey, and it's starting out just as good as Bo's Lasting Lessons.

This is interesting, I would definitely consider it.

like a really good idea, I'm all for it

Only if we do Infinite Jest.

I like this idea simply because it is something that RCMB would never do.

We just need to get the logistics worked out, but it's a great idea.

For anyone looking for a truly fascinating Michigan book I highly recommend "The Big House: Fielding H. Yost and the Building of Michigan Stadium".

The book covers two seasons of Michigan football leading up to the construction of Michigan Stadium.  It also covers the stadium building boom that was going in the Big Ten at that time, as well as the construction of Yost Fieldhouse.

http://www.amazon.com/Big-House-Fielding-Building-Michigan/dp/1932399119

I was taken by how similar things were back then to how things are now (the games, the fans and stadium building booms).  Where things are different they are fascinating.  Images of fans and the marching band escorting the team down to the train station (now the Gandy Dancer) for away games, and of fans packing Hill Auditorium to watch a big scoreboard showing the play by play from away games (relayed by telegraph) are still burned in my mind years after reading.

I think this is a truly under-rated book.  I just wish my brother would give me my copy back so I could read it again.

I'd leave it to others to figure out logistics of such a book club thing on line, but a [State of] Michigan-related book I'd highly recommend is Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex.  Much of it takes place in Detroit (from Greek Town to Grosse Pointe, from rum-running to chili dogs), though starting in Asia Minor and ending in Germany.  Involving lesser-known European and Detroit history, recessive genes, and fascinating characters affected by the above.  Don't want to give too much away for those who like to be surprised (for those who don't, the internet is your friend), but it's a great read.  (As for the U., there is one character who is accepted to UofM; as for sports, I seem to recall a brief field hockey scene in a private girls' school.)

have a subscription to Maxim?  I think we should start a club that discusses the latest issue every month.

I'd be down for this, and I also like the alternating books idea.

This is actually an excellent idea and I would enjoy being part of it. If there is to be a discussion about who would participate, when the latest thread would be posted and how often, logistics, etc....be sure to announce it so I can help if possible. I also like the Michigan / non-Michigan alternation, for clearly many of us have a keen interest in the stories of other teams as well as our own. 

I'll bring a big bag of Tootsie Rolls.

I like the idea. My only request is that the books are available for the Kindle b/c I'm about to buy one and really want to use it all the time.

This is an awesome idea. I bought a bunch of used Michigan-related books after finishing Three and Out, including the two Mitch Album books (Bo's first book and his book on the Fab Five), which are good reads. I'd also recommend John Falk's book, "If These Walls Could Talk" for a great prespective from someone's perspective that's been there from Bo through RichRod (if I recall correctly, it was written between the 2009 and 2010 seasons, so at the end it provides an interesting viewpoint of being post-RichRod disappointment but pre-Hoke). If there is some kind of way to coordinate which book is discussed when, I'd be happy to read any of them agian (or whatever new ones I haven't collected yet).

I just bought myself the book for Christmas (yes, I buy my own Christmas presents b/c my wife and kids suck) :~)

Anyway, I'd be game - but not a conference call!  I'd likely contribute to a written book club format.