The Week In Review
In a quixotic attempt to write more and reinvigorate this blog, I present to you the new feature, the week in the review wherein I note books acquired, work done, and posts written.
Acquisitions:
On Writing Well: 30th Anniversary Edition, William Zinsser (amazon)
Hell on Two Wheels: An Astoning Story of Suffering, Triumph and the Most Extreme Endurance Race in the World, Amy Snyder (Amazon)
Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss, and a Record –Setting Run Across America, Marshall Ulrich (Amazon)
Study:
Restarted the study of Hebrew on Shabbat, putting in 1.25 hours and getting through a part of the alphabet. The plan with this is to get a decent level of letter recognition / pronunciation in the coming months and then focus in on vocabulary. Its intimidating, but an exciting project. I’ll probably post more about this.
Posts:
I reviewed Aristotle’s Children by Richard Rubenstein here
I sense some extreme athlete memoir Mad Libs in the making.
[cliche relating to speed, death or motorcycle gangs]: A [extreme sport]er’s story of [negative life incident], [positive life incident], and the [superlative] [sports event] in the [geographic region].
YES! And I will read everyone!