Clearly I'm going to have to take a pile of books to the beach one of these months.

13. Dan Jenkins’s Semi-Tough.

I laugh out loud when reading Jenkins, and that can’t be a bad thing. I ran a cross a first edition copy of Semi- at a library booksale the other day, and thought it was certainly worth the $2 charge.

I had an idea to make his Bubba Talks into a musical some years ago (and even got his tentative permission to do so) but was dissuaded by a bunch of book-show-centric colleagues. Perhaps one of these days I’ll find a way back into it.

Sidebar: in the regular stacks at the library, Dan Jenkins is next to Tim (Left Behind) Jenkins. Seems to me that sort of keeps the universe in balance.

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