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I finished The Boy at the Top of the Mountain and really enjoyed it. It was a very good read, really drew me in.
The ending was a bit of a letdown in a way, although still pretty well done. I would have given it 5 out of 5 stars had it continued throughout as great as it "mostly" was. So I guess I give it 4.5 ( still very good).
Next I am going to start So Brave So Young, And Handsome by Leif Enger. (Virgil Wander and Peace like a River).
I'm glad you liked it.
Yes, the ending could have been better but all in all a good story.
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
What can you say about a book like When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss? The book, like the subject, is an American classic. I suspect almost everyone knows the story about how Vince took an also-ran team in a frigid backwater city, Green Bay and molded it into a powerhouse. This team's time in the sun began and ended with Lombardi's stewardship. The author skillfully weaves the Green Bay Packers story, as well as his earlier years as a deeply Catholic alter boy, mediocre player, great High School and college coach, great assistant coach to the New York Giants and his Packer days into a tale of its times. The U.S. rose from Depression ashes to a sunny post-WW II "Leave it to Beaver" era, and then, during the Packer days into its troubled Vietnam and counter-culture era.
The author posits that perhaps his untimely cancer death mirrored the growth of an America he could not abide. While politically a liberal Democrat and ardent JFK and RFK supporter, he believed in ordered, structured liberty, and not the free-for-all that America was evolving into. Perhaps his death mirrored the death of a promising era and a descent into malaise. We''ll never know.
Now, a slightly personal note. He was diagnosed with virulent colorectal cancer almost a year, to the day, prior to my Dad's diagnosis and surgery. Both would not survive.
Yes, I left out of my review his insignificant period coaching the Washington Redskins, but for some things, you'll just have to read the book.
I'm currently reading Earth's Deep History, How it was Discovered and Why it Matters, by Martin J. S. Rudwick. The book tells the story of how increasing knowledge of fossils and earth's geologic strata by naturalists during the period roughly covering the 17th through 19th centuries changed early naturalists views from a young earth and biblical flood to a much older earth with its natural history of life on earth before man.
Did the Resurrection Happen? (A conversation with Gary Habermas and Anthony Flew)
This book is a brief collection of debate transcripts & commentary between Flew (an atheist, eventually turned Deist and Habermas, a Christian and specialist in the research of Jesus' resurrection), that spanned a couple decades.
Interesting perspectives on the relative validity of Biblical resurrection testimony, and the wider philosophy of why the existence of God is a rational conclusion.
This one was pretty meh, I'll be generous and give it three stars.
I'm half way through. Certainly not one of Hannah's better books.
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When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
