The Boys from St. Petri

The Boys from St. Petri was written by Bjarne Reuter.

This story takes place in 1942 and is about a group of young men who begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.

Rowing connection: one of their early protests takes place while rowing an 8 in race.

This book won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award; given each year by the American Library Association to honor the most outstanding children's book originally published in a foreign language and then translated into English and published in the United States.

This book is a young adult book that adults may enjoy also.

Rowing Romance

Check out this British website that spoofs romance books with a rowing twist!
http://www.twrc.rowing.org.uk/books/rr.htm

Dead in the Water

If you like the old fashioned Cozy/Amateur Sleuth style of mysteries you may like this book:
Dead in the Water: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery by Carola Dunn.

Set in 1923 England, Daisy Dalrymple is visiting the country house of her aunt and writing a story for an American magazine about the rowing events of the Henley Regatta. Her cousin's boyfriend is the captain of Oxford's Ambrose College team so the team is staying at the house also. (The Cox sleeps in the closet because he is short!) Team spirit is not the best due to some social class conflicts. The plot includes many scenes on the water including the first death. This is an easy reading murder mystery, enjoyable but I would get it from the library and not buy it myself.

Deep Pockets

I'm back! With the crunch of finishing class projects, spring break and being sick I haven't posted for a while.

But I haven't been idle. I've took some time to read for pleasure and found some more books with rowing characters.

The one I just finished is by Linda Barnes and is titled Deep Pockets. St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Set in Boston, a Harvard professor asks P.I. Carlotta Carlyle to help find a black mailer. But there is much more going on. Did Denali Brinkman, the freshman rower the professor had an affair with really commit suicide in the Harvard boathouse?

Want to know more? Go to the authors website and you can read reviews and a first chapter excerpt.
http://www.lindabarnes.com/index.html