Pre-Ordered

Today I went for my first walk without the cane entirely.  I didn't even take it.  As will all endurance events, the mental aspect is key.  I didn't go far because I knew I wasn't ready for that, but at least I went somewhere.  I still have 0 friends on dailymile.com.  I was hoping someone out there would have made an effort and taken pity on me and made me their friend.

In other big news, I have pre-orded Into the Silence, which you can see is a new book about Mount Everest!!  Very excited.

Book Reviews

The Long Run  Matt Long.  This NYPD firefighter and elite athlete got run over by a bus and was given very little chance of surviving the night.  This is his story.  The surgeries.  The rehab.  His recovery and eventually running the NYC Marathon and doing an Ironman.  I saw this guy on the Daily Show and bought the book right then.  If  you need some inspiration to get your ass off of the couch or if you are feeling sorry for yourself because of whatever, I think you should read this book.  Interesting and engaging.

The Second Son  Lee Child.  A Jack Reacher short story!  Little 13-year old Jack Reacher has moved to  Okinawa with his family.  His French grandpa is dying.  His worry-wart brother Joe has got his panties in a bunch about a test, there's a bully with a boil who wants to charge the boys to cross the road and Reacher's dad's men have lost a code book.  What is a boy to do?  Jack Reacher does what he knows how to do which is bust some heads, break some wrists, solve a crime and be a man whore or in this case a boy whore.

The Hard Way  Lee Child.  Jack Reacher is in NYC getting some coffee.  (Jack Reacher loves coffee.)  He inadvertently sees a ransom money pickup* and subsequently gets involved with some ex-military turned government security contractors.  Then, Jack Reacher busts some heads, breaks some wrists, shoots some people in the head, solves a crime and is a man whore.  Good fast past read.  And of course, I love me some Jack Reacher.

*A couple of years ago rendez-vous was a vocab word.  I heard this kid in the back say, "What's a rendez-vous?"  and his partner answered back, "You know it's where you leave the money when someone gets kidnapped: at the rendez-vous point."