My favorite color is, and has always been, blue, so when I came across the book Blue: the Science and Secrets of Nature's Rarest Color, by Kai Kupferschmidt I just had to read it! Over all a good read, although it got a bit 'sciency' for me (chemical analysis and so forth), but there were chapters on animals, and plants, and language, too. I found that chapter to be the most interesting as it seems words for blue came late to several languages ... it was hard to describe.

What was the first big, really big event you remember watching on TV? For those of us my age it was usually the the assassination of JFK but for Constant Reader (younger by many years) it was that hockey game at the Olympics, in Lake Placid, NY, in 1980. That of course, led to a book! Constant Reader is my go to person for things of a sports nature so when there is a book recommendation I always give it a try! In this case it was The Making of a Miracle: the Untold Story of the Captain of the 1980 Gold Medal-Winning US Olympic Hockey Team, by Mike Eruzione (with Neal E. Boudette). Part auto-biography, part memoir, it's a nicely written story of the road to the Olympics, the 'miracle' game, and what happened after.

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