I’ve been tasked with bringing you a list of spring/summer reading recommendations. I’m all too happy to do so. Relieved, even. This might surprise you, but even though I’m a librarian, I don’t get to talk about books at work very often. Most people just don’t ask, they just want to be escorted to the Internet, which breaks my bookish heart.
I’d guess that 80% of what I read is either recommended to me by other bookworms, or it just happens to cross my desk at the library. I never know what I’m going to find. It’s kind of how I feel when I’m browsing an out-of-the-way bookshop and I head down the next aisle.
If a book looks remotely interesting, I grab it. I definitely have my favorite authors, genres, and subjects, but my constant exposure to unfamiliar books means, happily, that I read outside of my comfort zone quite often.
I tend to think in stories, and the more stories I read, and the broader the scopes and subjects of the stories, the more connections I can make. A mind that can is familiar with a greater variety of subjects is going to be more adaptable.
Now then--you wouldn’t be on this website if you weren’t a fellow book nut, so I’ll try and reward your curiosity with the latest and greatest books that have jumped out at me.
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Before this book, I didn’t have any stories or ideas tied to rowing. In fact, before reading The Boys In The Boat, if you’d asked me, “What’s less interesting than competitive rowing?” I would have said, “Nothing! What else can we talk about?” But I had similar thoughts about horse racing before reading Seabiscuit, about running the mile before reading The Perfect Mile, about running in general before reading Bowerman And The Men Of Oregon, and about the history of Formula 1 racing before reading The Limit. But of course, these books were great not because of the sports they profiled, but because of the people involved.
Not only is Brown’s book interesting, It’s thrilling, and he’s a fantastic writer. The people in the story are a pleasure to know. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a book about sports and competition this much. If you like stories about scrappy underdogs beating the odds, this is the book for you. ...............................................................................................

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