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Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary
by Kit Fox, Rachel Swaby
I happened upon this one while looking up another book (a "you might also like ...) and figured it would be good to add a non-fiction to my "MiddleGradeMay" reads (and that inspired me to purposely look up more non-fiction ...)
I'm NOT a runner, although I was on the track team when I was in 9th grade (I don't know that I'd say I was there willingly) ... and I was a sprinter, with the 400 my longest. Hubs has run a marathon. 5k is my longest race post-track team.
Still, this was an interesting story. I went with the audiobook, narrated by the author (she sounds very young). I was sad I wasn't able to get the Kindle copy (not at the library, too $$ to buy ...) It was on Hoopla, it's just not the same as Kindle for me (and my highlights/notes don't get saved). I liked the "fire" metaphor in Ch14, but am too lazy to retype it all and enter it into the QUOTES section here myself. There were more too ...
Split into three parts ... The Ribbon, The Race, The Record, with 27 chapters running through. For fun, the last chapter is actually numbered 26.2. Clever. I don't think I caught that in audio (which is why I like to have the text to look at after listening). Also an intro, prologue and afterward. Notes and sources too.
While this was about Moe ... it was also about the history of women running (and running itself) and at times really seemed to stray from Moe's story, although I found it all interesting. As with many non-fiction books ... I feel a little like I should remember all the facts, and I just don't know that I'll remember much beyond the basics. Not dates/names, I was even losing track of names during the initial read/listen.
While I adore audiobooks, I feel a little bereft without a Kindle copy for reference. Here, the Hoopla ebook at least gave me access to the text, if inconvenient (yes, I'm a Kindle snob). I liked the pictures included at the end. It's fun to browse through and connect them to the same moments in the book, bringing back the associated memory. As someone who went with the audio, I appreciated that the pictures were compiled together at the end, whereas if I had been reading on my own, I might have preferred them positioned in the book at the corresponding dates.
I'm NOT a runner, although I was on the track team when I was in 9th grade (I don't know that I'd say I was there willingly) ... and I was a sprinter, with the 400 my longest. Hubs has run a marathon. 5k is my longest race post-track team.
Still, this was an interesting story. I went with the audiobook, narrated by the author (she sounds very young). I was sad I wasn't able to get the Kindle copy (not at the library, too $$ to buy ...) It was on Hoopla, it's just not the same as Kindle for me (and my highlights/notes don't get saved). I liked the "fire" metaphor in Ch14, but am too lazy to retype it all and enter it into the QUOTES section here myself. There were more too ...
Split into three parts ... The Ribbon, The Race, The Record, with 27 chapters running through. For fun, the last chapter is actually numbered 26.2. Clever. I don't think I caught that in audio (which is why I like to have the text to look at after listening). Also an intro, prologue and afterward. Notes and sources too.
While this was about Moe ... it was also about the history of women running (and running itself) and at times really seemed to stray from Moe's story, although I found it all interesting. As with many non-fiction books ... I feel a little like I should remember all the facts, and I just don't know that I'll remember much beyond the basics. Not dates/names, I was even losing track of names during the initial read/listen.
While I adore audiobooks, I feel a little bereft without a Kindle copy for reference. Here, the Hoopla ebook at least gave me access to the text, if inconvenient (yes, I'm a Kindle snob). I liked the pictures included at the end. It's fun to browse through and connect them to the same moments in the book, bringing back the associated memory. As someone who went with the audio, I appreciated that the pictures were compiled together at the end, whereas if I had been reading on my own, I might have preferred them positioned in the book at the corresponding dates.