A Great Read I HIGHLY Recommend!

Anonymous

I had a BMX on April 25. Being a WW member, and in recovery from surgery, I couldn't wait 'till 2 days ago to get to 1 or 2 of my WW meetings (in person) again. But - just my luck! - as my car was leaving my driveway, could not help but feel its shuddering... oh, oh - quickly turned around and returned to my garage... lo & behold, to find that 1 of my rear car tires was FLAT! So, with DH working entire day, and no other means of transport, I had to stay home, much to my chagrin. Talk about being depressed! And I was about to go for a good walk in nearby park afterwards with 1 of my dearest WW friends (who, btw, was at hospital entire time pre- and post-BMX with my family!).

So now, bored outta my wits, nowhere to go... I let my fingers do the walkin' on the Internet, to my library's website, and discovered how really neat e-books are! Ha! Over a year ago, I ran into a kind lady at the grocery store, don't know how it came about, but she recommended VERY HIGHLY a GREAT "can't-put-it-down" book she read, that she just HAD to share with me... details of what she read of really remained in my mind... and I kinda "shelved it away" for "future use."

The book she recommended to me - as I do to ALL BC sisters of mine - is the book called "UNBROKEN" by Laura Hillenbrand (sp?). Book is a REAL-life story of a runner, who almost beat Roger Bannister's record of 4:00-minute mile time in the 1936 Olympic Games... who went into Word War II, plane crashed at sea... over 40 days on a floating raft... shark evasions... and landed on a Pacific island held by the Japanese... sent to a VERY cruel & sadistic Japanese POW prisons... and his eventual release and redemption.

Ladies, I can tell you this: having read this book, I (1) understand why my shopper-friend said it was on the NY Times Bestseller List for eeons... and (2) what HOPE and ENCOURAGEMENT that I got from reading the story of this brave "unbroken" individual... what a great "shot-in-the-arm" this "tool" gave me in my fight against the BC "monster"!

HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it!

LuvLulu07

Thank you, turquoise!  This has been on my list for awhile, I'll make sure to get it and finally read it!    

Anonymous

Thanks for the reply, joyh1109! I do have to admit, I was able to access the "e-book" version of this title around lunchtime on Saturday, and was literally "glued" to my PC laptop screen... all the way until 2:30 a.m. the following day (er, night), when I got to "break" at a new chapter (about 65% of the book ready by me by that point), just to get some sleep! I confess that this book did (like that lady warned me) "kept me on the edge of my chair" on the sofa for hours at a time!! Worth it... every minute of it...

Not only that, btw, I subscribe to Runner's World magazine, and the subject of the book (Louie Zamperini- sp?) was prominently featured - as winner of their "Lifetime Achievement Award" for famous runners in the Dec 2012 or January 2013 issue... and why not? I think he's 96 now!  Hey, now THAT'S the road I also wanna take - RUNNING!! WHAT AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US WITH BC AND SURVIVORS ALIKE!!!