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BookEnds

Lower Fairfield County's online book club

Category: Fame

Oh, Selena!

Thanks, Monica and Dave, for inviting me to join the fray and kick start the book blog. Since you took me up on my suggestion to start off with Selena Robert’s book on Alex Rodriguez, I’m preparing to shoulder the blame should it somehow fail to be blog-worthy material. My hope was that, at the very least, the subject matter and writing will serve as lightening rods for other issues that matter to us as journalists and sports fans.

So I guess it’s only fitting that I begin my first post by explaining why I wanted to read this particular book in the first place. It has nothing to do with being either a Yankee or A-Rod fan. (Full disclosure: I grew up in Queen as an angst-ridden Mets fan.) My ears do, however, prick up at the scintillating gossip surrounding A-Rod. Like most people who thumb through the tabloids at the supermarket checkout line–Monica, can you tell I’m desperately in need of book club salvation?–I am curious to learn about the exact nature of A-Rod’s relationship with Madonna–did she brainwash him to the point where her videos put him in a trance? did the two really have Sabbath dinners together?

On that and any matters related to Kabbalah, I’m hoping this book settles the score once and for all.

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AmericanLion

For November, I'll be reading American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham, which won the Pulitzer Prize last year. We'll update our book club selection for December and January shortly.

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Meet the Authors:

  • Marilyn Ramos is a partner at the Stamford litigation law firm of Silver Golub & Teitell. She is a member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and the Connecticut Bar Association. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Fairfield County Bar Association and the Fairfield County Bar Foundation. She received her law degree from Pace University School of Law in 1989 and is a member of the Connecticut and New York bars. Prior to her career in law, she was a teacher with the Greenwich Public Schools and worked for the Stamford Human Rights Commission. Her views expressed on this blog are completely her own and do not represent those of Silver Golub & Teitell.
  • Roy J. Nirschel is president of Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. He grew up in Stamford and his father was a firefighter on the West Side. He received his bachelor's degree from Southern Connecticut State University and went on to receive a master's degree in public administration and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Miami. He has traveled around the world, visiting 35 countries, but said, "I can’t credit on the road with getting me on the road."