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Ditto coming of age stories. Expatriate Games doesn't really fall into either camp but it would be impossible to describe it without invoking these convenient but overused tags. It's no secret that in life we graduate toward the things we're good at in large part because of all the positive reinforcement we get along the way, be it in the shape of good grades, parental praise, lucrative compensation, or strangers coming up and telling us how wonderful we are. I've always admired people who choose a path that no one suggested they take.

The people who are told "you sure you want to do that? Maybe they're fools, but if that foolishness makes them brave doesn't it make them extraordinary? Perhaps you know a writer who was determined to make it against all odds, or a self-taught artist. Fromm's muse was the goddess of basketball and he followed her all the way to Prague to play Semi-Pro Basketball. No one invited him to come. There was no scholarship or exchange program. But he went anyway and in his humble, self-deprecating way had an amazing experience.

Just as a team reflects the personality of its coach, a memoir ought to reflect the writer's personality.

Expatriate Games 18: Borderline Rationalizing Disorder

The protagonist of Expatriate Games is extremely likable and every bit as earnest and charming as its author. This book is for everyone who ever took a chance and still isn't sure if they're foolish or brave for having taken it. And for those still nursing those unacted desires, this just might be the book that sets you on your own journey.

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Mar 06, David Barney rated it it was amazing. Fun story. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Dec 10, Craig Brantley rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed this. It was nice to read something on the lite side that was still well written and containing a degree of meaning. A good read headed into hoops season.

Expatriate Games: My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketball

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It gave her something to say. Please request a new list of artists if such time has passed. Because we would love to experience someone who really is, content that really is, and we know from experience and disappointment how unlikely that is. Aside from which, it takes very directed effort not to and not to have our expectations best satisfied by the familiar. My experience of these admittedly very different things actually has quite a bit of overlap, my apologies to Colson Whitehead which is probably a very elitist thing to say, since I deem his project the more serious of the two, as an act of contrition I shall something something.

The inevitable tragedy of it all. Anyway, so Zone One. I cannot explain this feeling, since I do not care about reading particular people or finishing books for the sake of it. And I was legit angry at some point leading up to the middle. I literally told the book to SHUT. Or Colson, probably. I am so sorry, please remember that it is one of my five star reads and that I am courageous in my honesty right now.

And sweet mercy, that is a come-around for the ages.

My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketball

That book. That heart-wrenching, devastating, foreboding and strangely hopeful book.

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There are so few times that I genuinely feel the main character was required for the execution, for the resolution. Colson made me a believer. Excuse me while I just run through different scenes in my head, which is what inevitably happens whenever I try to talk about this book. So I wanted to see this movie because I like Kristen Stewart a lot and in a way I probably can only admit because I never saw or read Twilight.

I stand by my flawless judgment. Pretty immediately upon starting the movie, I was like. This is just We. But like. Justify yourself, Equals. Like, why do you need to exist, exactly? They were stakes which, at first glance, were only stakes to the characters in the movie.

They were only life and death if you refuse to live without love. The end completely justifies the movie, and broke my friggin heart. But still honoring the commitment. And I have been thinking of them, by myself, ever since. Because I have exactly zero people in my life who have read or watched this, as far as I know, please prove me wrong, someone because I NEED. I have such feelings. Have mercy on me. The distance in your eyes.

If you guessed that what follows will have nothing to do with this preamble, congratulations. You know me well. You should come and take selfies with me, or whatever. The down and dones, but still super excitings! I am so happy that my PBS interview finally aired, as well as my Great American Reads recommendation spot, and the primary school age Bethany who stayed up to watch Masterpiece Theater is finally in awe of me! Like, LOOK. It is a huge file and I have zero idea how to share it well. One day! Hi, and welcome back to I will be your immediate bff if you use random, well-placed, hopefully obscure Simpsons quotes.

Sucks to your asmar, jerks. I mean, the big, ridiculous mouth in the plane scene? How come. Okay, but we were supposed to be talking about 5. He is singlehandedly handing the planet over to ever-wilder dinos, and I love it. She has a complete lack of backstory, actually, which.

And I literally cannot remember if Dallas is her first or second name, help me out. Going into 4, I was like, HOW. And then, as soon as it started, I was like, naw this tracks. Stream of consciousness, kids. Also can we take a minute and talk about how this was the single funniest moment in a pretty funny franchise, and I have such a vivid memory of laughing my head off about this with my childhood bestie, Serrana?

Plus, they made a graphic of me and Mem, so like. Come on. Click the link. Scroll down. Read her words.

Expatriate Games: My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketball by Dave Fromm

I adore. No, YOU shut up! And keep an eye out for an interview with editor-in-chief, Adam Morgan, for Electric Literature, soon come! I feel…. If I have forgotten anything. And also, ready your cities! Well two of them anyway! The first leg of MEM related travels begins this month! Every time someone subscribes to this dormant chamber of broken promises, I feel guilty, which of course sends me into a shame spiral, which is what I call it when I tweet non-stop for days at a time.

So I tweeted about it. But I have fortified my courage with tacos and iced tea and am here now to tell you all about the past six months. And gosh, with MEM debuting in less than two months now!!!!!!!!! My YA debut landed with Tor!