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On The Road To Find Out (2014)

by Rachel Toor(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374300143 (ISBN13: 9780374300142)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

review 1: Read this after hearing Rachel Toor on Another Mother Runner podcast and about her again through a favorite company of mine, Skirt Sports. She sounded like a cool lady and I wanted to read her book.I enjoyed her writing about the experience of learning how to run. I found some of the exposition about running tedious but that's because I've been running for a dozen years, non-runners would need to exposition, I think. The information about Walter the Rat was both interesting and strange. I understand how it contributed to the story of Alice but I still found it a bit irritating. Must be my anti-rat bias! The lessons about learning to be wrong and choosing a college wisely are good lessons as is the one about paying more attention to the people you love although delivered in... more a somewhat heavy handed manner. Overall it was enjoyable but not spectacular. I might share it with my friend's daughter who recently started to run cross country in high school.
review 2: The story is about a high school student focused on attending Yale and how her life is turned upside down by her rejected application. The book is about finding yourself and finding what makes you happy. Helped me relate to the main character that she was happy spending time with her pet, reading books, and running. I read this book too fast. It is an easy read and before I knew it I had read 245 pages. While it is written as a YA book, that is only because of the age of the main character. The themes of loss and self-discovery can be applied no matter what your age. less

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