If you're a sports fan, you couldn't look for sports scores or stories in the past week without trudging through a media funeral procession for Kobe Bryant. The platitudes...the praise...the scandals...etc., etc., etc. It has been a public performance of artful misery to show you're dutifully depressed. A Sylvia Plath poem is a speedball of cheeriness by comparison.
Luckily, there's the Los Angeles Public Library offering a lighter take!
Keith Kesler, the social media librarian for the institution, searched through public interviews and social media posts for any literary mentions that the basketball superstar uttered. From that, Kesler cultivated a list.
The books Kobe read include:
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
“The Illustrated Art of War” Sun Tzu
“Blink” and “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell
“Children of Blood and Bone” Tomi Adeymi
“The Hero’s Journey” Joseph Campbell
“Jonathan Livingston Seagull” Richard Bach
“Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell
“Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable” by trainer Tim Grover
“Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike” Phil Knight
“The Silver Linings Playbook” by Matthew Quick
“Sunny” Jason Reynolds
“Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Thirty Rooms to Hide In” Luke Sullivan
“Tuff Juice” by former NBA player Caron Butler
Look at Malcolm Gladwell with two books! And Doris Kearns Goodwin gets a shoutout!
I have to admit. I didn't think I'd ever mention Kobe Bryant and Doris Kearns Goodwin in the same sentence during my lifetime. Yet, here we are.
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