Lives of . . .: Lives of the Athletes : Thrills, Spills (and What the Neighbors Thought) (Paperback)

from vortega

The book is visually pleasing and has an eye-catching cover. Kathryn Hewitt's watercolor/colored pencil portraits are the highlight of the series and the thick white glossy paper with ample margins make the presentation reader friendly. Each of the 20 biographies is well written, informative and ...

from realbigcat

Scott Jurek is a champion ultra runner. Being an ultra runner myself I was interested in reading this book to gain some insight. At first I found Jurek to be a lttle full of himself but as I continued reading I gained an appreciation for his passion for the sport. Jurek is also very much into nut...

from drardavis

05/08/14 Earthsea: Tales From Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin, 1997. I was disappointed that this was not a full novel. Instead, LeGuin constructs five tales that fill in some of the gaps in the overall history of Earthsea. However, each story has the same wonderful style and feeling as the rest of Le...

from ThePortPorts

It's hard for me to verbalize LeGuin's impact on me. Her writing is so... simple. Her style reads so often like writing for youngsters (and maybe it is...), but the ideas are not simple. They're complex and somehow sit in my mind for weeks after I've finished one of her books. I have a few author...

from horomnizon

At first I wasn't too sure about this collection of short stories, thinking I'd rather get to the conclusion of the story arc from the first 4 books...but I knew one of the stories acts as a bridge from Tehanu to The Other Wind, so I started in on the Tales from Earthsea. I have to say that I enj...