Born To Run - Megan

I have two very different responses to this book: my immediate emotional response and my later critical response.
1: I loved every page and was post-it noting (could we please make that a verb?) way more than I anticipated. It made me want to run better and have more fun with it. It made me re-think why I run. It made me LOVE the fact that there are people in the world who just...who just run. And it was SO much more than a running book. It was a fascinating anthropologic study, it was insightful into the human spirit, and it was very journalistic, which is exactly what a book about running should be. There were no long-winded technical chapters describing the mechanics of running, or perhaps there were but they were so well disguised by fantastic writing that I didn't even notice. Just fabulous.
Then, I thought more about it, and here is what I have determined:
2: While the book is inspiring, interesting, and really a delicious read, there were a lot of characters, a lack of continuity and maybe a bit too much anti-shoe preaching for a non-runner. There were a few spots where I felt the need to follow up on the research because it seemed a bit far-fetched/colored to fit the belief system of the writer. 
So, depending on if you'd like to wear your happy pants or grumpy pants during a read of this book, there you go. Two pair of pants. 

March...April...Spring Books

Hello all-

As most of you know, the three of us who run this little book club are either in graduate school or have a husband in graduate school and have two little boys to run after.  This means that this time of year is borderline insane.  Hence, the lack of posts on our March book "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall and why our April book is yet unannounced. 

So here's the plan - we're overlapping books because that's our prerogative.  We will continue reading "Born to Run" and would love to hear your thoughts as they come (whether you're finished or not).  We will also begin discussing Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" which will serve as our April/May book (since classics take a bit longer to get through).  Whether you've read "Jane Eyre" every year since you were twelve or whether you are taking on "Jane Eyre" for the first time, we want to hear what you have to say. 

I personally am on a mission to get through "Jane Eyre" as soon as possible because I really want to see the movie, but not until I've read the book.  Other another literary movie note, "Water for Elephants" comes out in just over two weeks on April 22nd.  Call it blasphemy or uncultured tastes, but I think the movie will be better than the book. 

Happy reading, happy movie watching, happy running, happy spring, and everything in-between!

--Jaclyn