so-soRead it for my work bookclub, and while I don't regret reading it and what the author was trying to say was interesting, I found it incredibly frustrating. Reading fiction based on a real person and real events just means that I spend more time watching videos and googling things then actually reading the book. I want to know the facts, the fictional stuff just ends up annoying me.
You ever get to work and all you want to do is keep reading the book you started on the train? #thestruggleisreal #mondaymorning
(Some of?) my TBR for today's 24 hour #readathon!
Reading in French. It's about the amazing life of Nadia Comaneci, a Romanian gymnast who won several golden medals at the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976. It also gives an amazing insight about what life was like for people living under Ceausescu's regime. The lack of food, the impossibility to trust anyone as everyone is spying on each other... almost done with it and so far a very good book. #readinginFrench #literature #communism #sport #women
so-soWhile I thought the social commentary aspect was well done and on point, I wanted more from Nadia's viewpoint. I came away wondering if I would get more out of Letters to a Young Gymnast.
It would be fantastic if they discovered that you don't need to work hard to win, but unfortunately that's not the case.
pickTardy on #day10 of #photoadaynov16 - my #brewandbook (tea, since I am not a beer drinker).
This book is a re-imagining of the life of Nadia Comaneci as told through the narrator and her imagined dialogue with Nadia. While the biographical details are interesting, the deeper examination of the fascination with girls'/women's bodies, their use as tools of propaganda in the Cold War, and role of societal expectations was the deeper story. Well done!
When your kid is old enough to go off alone with her almost-cousin at the water park. READING TIME!
"Back home there was nothing to desire. But in the west, you are called on to desire constantly."
The Little Communist Who Never Smiled | 
