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June 23, 2009

Lucas Glover: U.S. Open champion and bookworm

lucas glover u.s. open At the U.S. Open golf tournament, book lovers could be forgiven if they were rooting against crowd favorites Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and for the relatively unknown Lucas Glover. Why? Because Glover is one of us.

After winning the Open, which was extended until Monday because of rain delays, Glover noted that he had read four books while in New York for the tournament. The best of them, he said, was The Lost City of Z, about explorer Percy Fawcett.

Earlier, he had told golf.com: "I read about a book every three or four days. ... Murder mysteries, thrillers — it might be more of an addiction. I sit down and two hours later I'm going, Oh, man, I've got to go to sleep."

Luckily, Glover plays a sport that has produced lots of excellent books -- among my favorites are the golf stories of P.G. Wodehouse. As they say: "the smaller the ball, the better the writing."

Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 6:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Lucas Glover winning was huge news around here because he lives in the same small suburb we do.

Posted by: Kathy | June 23, 2009 7:04 PM

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.