My, the summer goes fast. Thanks for all your comments so far. What are you working on for the last weeks of the reading challenge?
Remember, the final day to turn in your reading logs (or tell us about 5 books on this blog) is August 22 (6:00pm at the latest!). Good luck and happy reading!
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Last week I read "Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest match Ever Played" by L. John Wertheim.
ReplyDeleteI thought I would do a lot more skimming than I actually did...I'm new to tennis fandom. But this was tremendous fun: I'd seen the match on tv and been totally transfixed by these guys, so I loved this little book so full of background information about the personalities, the sport, Wimbledon, and the match itself.
Wertheim didn't assume tennis fanatic status of his readers, so you get a nice bit of context throughout. The descriptions of actual play that we do get are fantastic, or were for me. I watch a tennis match and I know I'm not understanding everything I see. So it's great to read a narrative account of it: this really helped me understand just how great Nadal and Federer really are, and why, beyond the obvious drama and epic quality, this was such a historic match.
Thank you Librarian Luke for the tennis book tip.
ReplyDeleteI accidently read a book that was laying around my house. Picked it up and couldn't put it down. It was called The Breaker Boys by Pat Hughes. The setting was post Civil War in Hazleton, PA in the coal mines. I had an immediate personal interest because I grew up in northeast PA surrounded by coal mines, lore and the occasional mine fire (that burned underground and would collapse whole houses into the tunnels) In addition, I am the great-grandchild of Polish immigrants and in this book, the main character (the son of a mine owner) makes friends with boys who work for the coal owners. The boys are all immigrants, but his "best" friend is from a Polish family. The author used quite a few Polish words that I grew up hearing and the story just drew me in. It was based on a specific historical event, but was fiction. Excellent, quick read. Loved it. It was brought into the house by my 14 year old niece, so if you have kids, they might also enjoy it.
Just finished "A Month of Summer" by Lisa Wingate. Story told from the perspective of two women, stepdaughter and stepmother, and the misconceptions that took place over the years. Nicely done.
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