Beyond Belief by Josh Hamilton was fantastic, this book kept me very entertained throughout the whole novel. This book is a biography of Josh Hamilton, it goes all the way back to the high school days and all the way up to his current life in the MLB.
I can connect with this book with the fact that I play high school baseball and that professional athletes have always been someone I look up too. My Grandparents are also Texas Rangers fans they have followed Josh since his minor league days and knew what kind of star he could become.
This book talks about his ups and downs. He struggled with drug abuse in his early years as being a professional, enough that he was banned from the league. I believe that this book would really inspire young athletes to not get into drugs and help them stay clean.
Many high school athletes use professionals as their role models, Josh Hamilton is a great example on how to overcome a great obstacle. Many students who read this may begin to use this as a role model and would really affect their lives. The athletes that may need a role model or just a little help in overcoming an obstacle are who I believe should read this book.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
book review
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien catches the eye of the reader. This book was very easy to follow and kept me entertained throughout the whole book.
The theme for this book would to inform the readers about the hardships about the war in Vietnam. This book talked about what the soldiers carried, if it was their equipment or items from back home that help keep them sane. The book talked about the weapons and how much they weighed and about how much the items they brought from back home helped keep them pushing and fighting to make it back home.
The narrator in this book name was never given. He was a young man that was drafted into the military. He always refers to the first man he killed and how he regretted doing it but had to to keep him alive. By the way he talked you could tell that he missed his friends that had been killed in the war. He would often talk about Curt Lemon who was killed while playing a careless game of who could catch the smoke grenade, the hot potato of war. He was very caring and kind, he was soft hearted, you could tell this because he did not want to kill. Although he did to survive.
The scene was Vietnam, not just Vietnam but Vietnam during the war. This set the scene for the story because it was were the war took place, without this war this story would have never been written, therefor this played a major role in the book. It provided the conflict in this book because they had to leave the United States and fight this war, that none of them wanted to fight in. Without this setting there would not have even been a conflict.
This book connects to me because my cousin is in the active military. He often talks about what they carry and the little things that keep him pushing on. He talks about how important this items are to him while he is in Afghanistan. I was really able to connect to this book through my cousin.
I would recommend this book to anyone with family in the military because I was able to connect so well I believe that they would too and it would help them understand the situation their family members are going through.
The theme for this book would to inform the readers about the hardships about the war in Vietnam. This book talked about what the soldiers carried, if it was their equipment or items from back home that help keep them sane. The book talked about the weapons and how much they weighed and about how much the items they brought from back home helped keep them pushing and fighting to make it back home.
The narrator in this book name was never given. He was a young man that was drafted into the military. He always refers to the first man he killed and how he regretted doing it but had to to keep him alive. By the way he talked you could tell that he missed his friends that had been killed in the war. He would often talk about Curt Lemon who was killed while playing a careless game of who could catch the smoke grenade, the hot potato of war. He was very caring and kind, he was soft hearted, you could tell this because he did not want to kill. Although he did to survive.
The scene was Vietnam, not just Vietnam but Vietnam during the war. This set the scene for the story because it was were the war took place, without this war this story would have never been written, therefor this played a major role in the book. It provided the conflict in this book because they had to leave the United States and fight this war, that none of them wanted to fight in. Without this setting there would not have even been a conflict.
This book connects to me because my cousin is in the active military. He often talks about what they carry and the little things that keep him pushing on. He talks about how important this items are to him while he is in Afghanistan. I was really able to connect to this book through my cousin.
I would recommend this book to anyone with family in the military because I was able to connect so well I believe that they would too and it would help them understand the situation their family members are going through.
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