Summer Update 5

Hi again, everybody! I've finished and edited the book my dad is writing. It will be called, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A Humorous Guide to Caring for Cancer Patients." He is doing some final editing, but the book should be available (in e-book format only, for now) in the next couple of weeks. Check back here for more information soon.

I finished the book, "Where I Belong" by Gwendolyn Heasley, that I mentioned I was starting in my last blog post. The book turned out to be much better than I had expected. You can definitely tell that it's the author's first book because it isn't especially well-written (it's pretty good, though), but the plot line is pretty engaging, and the book could make a pretty good movie. I would recommend it for anyone looking for a quick summer read.

I have just started Bill Bryson's, "A Walk in the Woods." It is about the author, Bill Bryson's, adventures on hiking the entire Appalachin Trail, which stretches all the way from northern Georgia to Maine. The book is supposed to be pretty interesting, but I'll have to wait and see!

Summer Update 4

RUN!

Dean Karnazes

Sorry I haven't updated in a while!  A couple weeks ago, I finished a good, non-fiction book called "RUN!" by Dean Karnazes.  It is about Dean, who is a runner, and his running life.  Dean is an ultramarathoner, which means he runs races that are 50, 100, and more miles long.  The book chronicles many of the races that Dean has run and his challenges in each.

I found the book very interesting because I am also a runner.  Okay, maybe I'm not an ultramarathoner or anything, but I run 6 or so miles (I did our local 4th of July race yesterday).  The book was very inspiring to me because it can be hard to push yourself to keep running when on a run, but Dean's 100+-mile runs inspire me to keep going.

I just finished reading a book my dad is writing entitled, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A Humorous Guide to Caring for Cancer Patients."  He is still working on it, so I'm helping him edit it.  If you're interested in reading it, I'll post more once the book is finished.

Finally, I just started a book called, "Where I Belong" by Gwendolyn Heasley.  I'm not really sure if I like it yet - the writing isn't very sophisticated - I think it's one of the author's first books - but the plot is okay.  I'll post more about it soon.