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This isn’t as much a review as me commemorating a book that had an oddly profound impact on my life.
You know how sometimes a kid will just fixate on something like a PBS special on the history of semi trucks, and they’ll want to watch nothing but that for like a year? That was me with this book in second grade, though as I recall I only reread it a couple times. To this day I have no idea what chord this book struck in me, a kid who failed every component of the Presidential Fitness Test every year, but it was the book that flipped the switch in me from “kid who enjoys reading” to “kid who spends every spare moment reading.” I even convinced my parents to let me take gymnastics because of it and really sucked at it. So thanks Dominique Moceanu.
You know how sometimes a kid will just fixate on something like a PBS special on the history of semi trucks, and they’ll want to watch nothing but that for like a year? That was me with this book in second grade, though as I recall I only reread it a couple times. To this day I have no idea what chord this book struck in me, a kid who failed every component of the Presidential Fitness Test every year, but it was the book that flipped the switch in me from “kid who enjoys reading” to “kid who spends every spare moment reading.” I even convinced my parents to let me take gymnastics because of it and really sucked at it. So thanks Dominique Moceanu.
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