All-Star Must-read Books!

[ShoWStoppeR]

I'm loving this thread! I'm gonna have to bookmark it :) I could compile a nice list (not necessarily cheer related) but I think the vicodin is clouding my memory lol

this isn't a book, but one thing I do suggest, however, is for athletes to take a psych and soc class in college if they have a chance. It was required by my major, and I really didn't want to take it because most people say its a blow off "talk about your feelings" class, but I actually found it very interesting. I have applied the information I learned more to cheerleading than I have in athletic training. I had an awesome professor, and pretty much we went over different techniques for handling stress, and getting mentally focused, and ways to be successful. Again, it sounds kinda common sense, but I actually learned alot, and it helped me through hell month this year,

 

[Emilily]

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[mylifesaboutcheer]

Cheer Related:
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Georgraphic Explorer by Mireya Mayor
This was a pleasantly suprising book, and it goes to show what we past/present cheerleaders can do!

Management Related:
Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts
Excellent book!

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
I refer back to this book often!

Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
I have reread this book several times

 

[XtremeWpg]

Kind of off topic, but I miss going to the library and using the card catalog and the Dewey decimal system to find books. In those days, finding 20 sources for a paper was like my own version of "National Treasure".

I think I may be the last generation of people who grew up this way. I distinctly remember learning the Dewey Decimal System and shuffling through cards in primary school

 

[Corsicab]

I really enjoyed Positive Coaching by Warren K. Simpson.

I'm currently reading Start with Why by Simon Sinek and enjoying that one as well.

 

[njallday]

Thank you for confirming my pending demise.

I just wanted to let you know that I'm only 22, and I thoroughly used the card catalog system up until about 7th grade. the library had 1 or 2 slow and giant computers that could pull up the system, so while the other kids were fighting over who got to type on the computers, I always chose to use the real card catalog. in elementary school "library" was also a class. once a week, we had to go to the library for an hour and have lessons from the librarian. we were taught the dewey decimal system, as well.

a part of me wishes there were no computers (or at least digital forms of the catalog) in the library. it feels sacrilegious. though this is all coming from a girl who loves the smell of old books and who could literally get lost in a library and never come out. my parents would actually just drop me off at the library and leave me there for hours some days (yay bad parenting.) I lose a little faith in humanity with every kid who laughs and says "I don't read" as if that is criteria to be popular, so this thread makes me happy.

 

[BuegeSmalls]

I lose a little faith in humanity with every kid who laughs and says "I don't read" as if that is criteria to be popular, so this thread makes me happy.

I hate when people say that! Or "I hate reading". I can understand reading for school, as the books are often boring but what's there to hate? I don't know, maybe I'm just nerdy. I like reading for fun. Sometimes it's just nice to forget about your life and get lost in someone else's.



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[ScottyB]

I lose a little faith in humanity with every kid who laughs and says "I don't read" as if that is criteria to be popular, so this thread makes me happy.

I hate when people say that! Or "I hate reading". I can understand reading for school, as the books are often boring but what's there to hate? I don't know, maybe I'm just nerdy. I like reading for fun. Sometimes it's just nice to forget about your life and get lost in someone else's.

This!! (or is it These!)

But i am at a loss when people say they don't read or don't like reading. Books are an experience and an adventure that only your mind can take you on. It's learning and growing and so many other things! I hate that people don't like to read anymore

 

[flcheermom]

Thank you for confirming my pending demise.

Well, I remember getting the library tour in Elem school - possibly middle school also and being shown where the card catalog boxes where, they were gray and metal - and how it works and the Dewey Decimal System - and how to use it to look up books. Then going and thumbing through those things and pulling out the cards and writing down the numbers- if I remembered to bring a pencil up to the card catalog with me- and going and trying to find the book. If no pencil then trying to remember the number exactly lol... RIP Dewey Decimal System.

 

[quietmom]

Yep. I went there

Everyone Poops: Taro Gomi: 9780439726597: Amazon.com: Books

 

[12stepCheermom]

I hate when people say that! Or "I hate reading". I can understand reading for school, as the books are often boring but what's there to hate? I don't know, maybe I'm just nerdy. I like reading for fun. Sometimes it's just nice to forget about your life and get lost in someone else's.



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People only hate to read if they haven't found the right book yet. Even bookworms don't like to read books that bore them ;)


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[ErinS]

I just wanted to let you know that I'm only 22, and I thoroughly used the card catalog system up until about 7th grade. the library had 1 or 2 slow and giant computers that could pull up the system, so while the other kids were fighting over who got to type on the computers, I always chose to use the real card catalog. in elementary school "library" was also a class. once a week, we had to go to the library for an hour and have lessons from the librarian. we were taught the dewey decimal system, as well.

a part of me wishes there were no computers (or at least digital forms of the catalog) in the library. it feels sacrilegious. though this is all coming from a girl who loves the smell of old books and who could literally get lost in a library and never come out. my parents would actually just drop me off at the library and leave me there for hours some days (yay bad parenting.) I lose a little faith in humanity with every kid who laughs and says "I don't read" as if that is criteria to be popular, so this thread makes me happy.

I'm 27. I remember the summer before 3rd grade (I was 7) and asking my mom to take to the library and she was like no kid, we have other stuff to do today....So I went off on one of my long rants/tantrums about how as soon as I got my license I was going to drive to the library and there was no way she was going to stop me and I concluded the tantrum by screaming about how I was just going to grow up and be a librarian.

I really don't know why I got up upset about going to that library that day, or why I let that tantrum decide my future basically...I'm not a book worm, I don't read a lot. I'm more of a know it all (which explains my journalism undergrad degree) and that is what draws me into the profession. I'm like a gate keeper to knowledge..... or so I tell myself

Anyway. That school year for 3rd grade I went from private to public school...with a "real library" and we too had a media center elective. I remember the media specialist introducing the dewey decimal system and showing us a catalog card and like internally I melted down and was like "noooooooooooooooooooooo I can never learn all of that" and then he was like "but we have computers for all of this now"...and then I raised the roof (no really, it was the 90's and I raised the roof).

So that's how I ended up a 20 something librarian, and now I get stuck dealing with peoples comments about it...and their odd fascination about it

And yes, leaving your kids at the library all day is bad parenting and I hate it (although my mom did drop me off once and I sat in a corner and read "Are you there God...Its me, Margaret")

If there were no catalog computers I'd pretty much hate my job and my life. One of the biggest things I've learned since becoming a librarian is how stupid people are (and I mean this kindly) but people are stupid, and I'm exposed to a kind of stupid that I feel like you don't encounter in other occupations... but yeah I had to use catalog cards on top of everything else... it'd be a slow and painful death 37.5 hours at a time.

 

[Carrie]

Fiction book about cheer is a great book titled Dare Me by Meg Abbott. This is written for adults unlike her Princess Diaries series which was more tween and teen friendly. Great read and one of Amazon's top reads for 2012.

Overall best book I have ever read is No Ordinary Time by Doris Kerns Goodwin about the life of Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II. Now there was a great lady.

Eleanor Roosevelt also wrote a book titled You Learn by Living, Eleven Keys For A More Fulfilling Life I keep this book out and just reread a chapter. Such wisdom in this book.

 

[BuegeSmalls]

Fiction book about cheer is a great book titled Dare Me by Meg Abbott. This is written for adults unlike her Princess Diaries series which was more tween and teen friendly. Great read and one of Amazon's top reads for 2012.

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Have you read this? Is it good? Whenever I go to Barnes & Noble they never seem to have it in stock :/

 

[Nothanks]

I love anything by Ellen Hopkins--she has both a collection of books for Young Adults and Teens. Even though I'm 22, I love the younger teen books, because they're so easy to read, and I think she did a huge thing writing about some of those topics as a way of reaching out to kids and talking about what happens when you make the wrong decisions. My 16 year old sister reads them as well, and my mom was very iffy about it at first (she probably started reading them about 3 years ago), but because I talked so highly about them, and how positive they are, she let it go.