This is a really good review.  I just came across it and instantly was like, I WANT to read that book.  Sport memiors are not even my thing at all.  Actually, the only one I have read was Drive by Larry Byrd.  It was for class.  However, this writer makes Labron James’ new books sound extremely interesting.  I just might look for it next time I go to Powells.

          First off, lately I have been thinking a lot about ghost writers.  I don’t really like the idea.  Yes, I do understand that you can make a lot of money from it and such but I would think that if you put in the effort you would like to get recognition.  A lot of celebrity books are written by ghost writers.  I like that this one has a cowriter.  It adds to the idea that James was trying to give credit where it is due.  I don’t know anything about him but I like him because of that fact.

          I love the idea that the book focuses on a whole group of kids.  No one person can carry an entire team.  I don’t care if there is one superstar; you also have to have people supporting him.  It is good to see this idea ephasized in a story. 

          Have you read this book?  Do you think you will?

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          Sidenote: Editting my book is going good! I’m so excited.  Still no ideas on the title.    Hopefully that will come to me soon.

          Guess this is one way to follow in your mother’s shoes.  This is actually a really cool idea if you ask me.  Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor have wrote a book together.  It is a memior which captures both Kidd moving into middle age and Taylor growing up into young adulthood.

          First off, I think this will be a very interesting juxtaposition.  There is points in everyone’s life that are big adjectments so seeing two genrations of a family going through them will be interesting.  I also really like that they are mentioning how Kidd wrote her books.  As a writer trying to become a published author I find that all very interesting.  One of my very favorite memiors is Two Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas and Micah Sparks.  It was about a trip they took together but also a lot about their lives growing up.  It told a lot about the inspiration behind all of Sparks books.  I was so interesting.  Even my dad, who had never read anything by Sparks, liked it because it was such a good story of two brothers growing up.

          The book is also set to take place in a variety of countries.  I don’t know about anyone else but I would love to travel the world so I find books a way to do that since I don’t have the money to do it in real life.   The book Atlas of a Human Heart by Ariel Gore is usually found under travel memior and I love that look too.  Check out Gore if you haven’t.  She spoke to one of my classes and teaches a writing workshop in Portland.  I’m dying to take it but haven’t had the chance to yet.

          Do you like memiors?  Have you read any of Kidds other work?

http://www.usmagazine.com/news/exclusive-first-peek-dustin-diamonds-tell-all-book-cover-200968

          So the news that jumped out at me this Thursday was that Dustin Diamond, pka Screech, is writing a memior.  Surprise surprise is my reaction. 

          A few years ago I might have been interested to read a book by Diamond talking about all the juicy backstage details.  We all want to know if Zack Morrison was hooking up with Kelly Kapowski in real life right?  I like biographies to an extent so  I wouldn’t have been against giving the book a try.

         However, now I feel like Diamond is just trying too hard to make himself still mean something.  Between The Surreal Life and his save my house shenanigans, I have kind of had enough of him.   Didn’t he even have a sex tape at  some point?  Who would actually want to see that?  Yuck.  He is kind of like the old version of Spencer and Heidi.

          So what do you think about Diamond writing a book?  Will you check it out?  What to you think about him these days?