Oh oh oh! Before I say anything else - ya’ll gotta get your butts out there and pick up ESPN Magazine’s Body Issue! It is to die for! I ditched my Sports Illustrated subscription years ago because I got sick of reading the word ‘iconic’ in every other sentence. Last year, I spotted the ESPN Body Issue, bought it, loved it, and got a subscription. The magazine is great in every way. I actually read it from cover to cover and I’m, um, a female - Sports Illustrated is all guy all the time and even though I break down and pick up the Swimsuit Issue for hubby, I secretly hate that damn Swimsuit Issue - it’s just T and A and maybe some sand patted into the butt crack.
So go get the Body Issue - ESPN does what I’ve been saying Sports Illustrated should do - they feature the wonder of the human body, human performance, and real athletes, men and women - different sports, different ages, even athletes with physical challenges to overcome. I have such an enormous crush on ESPN Magazine!
Next ten books:
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved, By Toni Morrison
Germinal, by Emile Zola
Ulysses, by James Joyce
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
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Yeah - I love ESPN! Their tennis coverage has been a breath of fresh air; their enthusiasm is infectious. I even love the online coverage (though they blacked out the Stanford/USC game this weekend, and you can’t even get it a day later!) Nonetheless, ESPN seems contemporary in a way that Sports Illustrated is not. I totally get what you mean by finding Sports Illustrated a fuddy-duddy.
Oh, Julia We read l’Assomoir in my old book club (Zola) and it left me nearly suicidal. I had a friend - a para-Olympian with one of those prostheses. He had had cancer when he was 18 and lost the leg. A few years ago he got a different cancer and passed away but he would run the track at the Y in these huge bounding steps and he was always an inspiration.
TTFN STeph