Readers Up #36: Summer Reading
I admit, I'm feeling both lazy about and overwhelmed by reading this summer. Waterlogged, maybe; Albany is getting a heavy dose of regular rain--perfect reading weather, but for some reason* I can't stay home all day with my book stack--I find myself reading more than one book per month specifically for react/review purposes, and in the meantime, they just keep publishing books. Every Tuesday! Even more often for indie writers! Oh, the humanity.
Anyway, since I don't really get a break from work in summer '21, I'm giving myself a newsletter break this month. July is the midpoint, the space in weather and time by which I feel summer should've arrived, settled, permitted lassitude and beach days and ticking stops off my ice cream tour. Most of that has not transpired... but in the racing world, the pace is picking up. It's a little strange to think that Saratoga opens this weekend (here's betting it's off the turf). Strange to think I can once more drive 45 minutes north and be among much-missed faces and scents and sounds. I don't feel ready, but the ponies don't wait.
So let's ease into the return to the Summer Race Place. Below you'll find a brief reader of links, recent and not-so, that I find illuminating on the topic we're all here for. Most are articles, but it's a mixed media line-up. I think we as fans, and certainly the larger public, forget sometimes how solidly Thoroughbreds are woven into the American cultural fabric. They appear in unexpected places, and it's always eye-opening.
Is your public library doing summer reading for kids and adults? Probably! You should find out. You're never too old to win prizes for reading.
Diana
*the reason is capitalism
~~~
Anyway, since I don't really get a break from work in summer '21, I'm giving myself a newsletter break this month. July is the midpoint, the space in weather and time by which I feel summer should've arrived, settled, permitted lassitude and beach days and ticking stops off my ice cream tour. Most of that has not transpired... but in the racing world, the pace is picking up. It's a little strange to think that Saratoga opens this weekend (here's betting it's off the turf). Strange to think I can once more drive 45 minutes north and be among much-missed faces and scents and sounds. I don't feel ready, but the ponies don't wait.
So let's ease into the return to the Summer Race Place. Below you'll find a brief reader of links, recent and not-so, that I find illuminating on the topic we're all here for. Most are articles, but it's a mixed media line-up. I think we as fans, and certainly the larger public, forget sometimes how solidly Thoroughbreds are woven into the American cultural fabric. They appear in unexpected places, and it's always eye-opening.
Is your public library doing summer reading for kids and adults? Probably! You should find out. You're never too old to win prizes for reading.
Diana
*the reason is capitalism
~~~
- Organizations team up to educate young African American men about horse racing industry (WKYT)
- "A Horse Dies Once That Is A Lie" (Rosebud Ben-Oni)
- "Horse Racing" (Half Waif)
- Fixed-Odds Wagering Bill Passes in NJ, Expected to Begin Haskell Day (Thoroughbred Daily News)
- "And Arazi runs right by him!" (Charles Simon)
- Nathan Horrocks on his jockey-centric film The Fall (The Paddock and the Pavilion)
- Clifton Collins Jr. Runs for the Roses in Powerful Drama (The Wrap)
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