From
YA Highway:
Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's
contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question to write
about on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination
and get everybody's unique take on the topic.
This week's topic:
In honor of the end of the Olympics, share your favorite sports book.
As expected, the Olympics completely sucked me in. I couldn't write, I could barely read. All I wanted to do was watch competitions of sports I normally care nothing about. My kids really got into it, staging diving events and beach volleyball games in the living room. Other favorites were gymnastics, swimming, and archery.
One book immediately came to mind when I thought about my favorite sports book: FORGET YOU by Jennifer Echols.
From
Goodreads:
There’s a lot Zoey
would like to forget. Like how her father has knocked up his
twenty-four- year old girlfriend. Like Zoey’s fear that the whole town
will find out about her mom’s nervous breakdown. Like darkly handsome
bad boy Doug taunting her at school. Feeling like her life is about to
become a complete mess, Zoey fights back the only way she knows how,
using her famous attention to detail to make sure she’s the perfect
daughter, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to
ultra-popular football player Brandon.
But then Zoey is in a car
crash, and the next day there’s one thing she can’t remember at all—the
entire night before. Did she go parking with Brandon, like she planned?
And if so, why does it seem like Brandon is avoiding her? And why is
Doug—of all people— suddenly acting as if something significant happened
between the two of them?
Zoey dimly remembers Doug
pulling her from the wreck, but he keeps referring to what happened that
night as if it was more, and it terrifies Zoey to admit how much is a
blank to her.
Controlled, meticulous Zoey is quickly losing her
grip on the all-important details of her life—a life that seems
strangely empty of Brandon, and strangely full of Doug.
Zoey and Doug are on the swim team together, so, uh, yeah, it's a
sports book.
I love this book. I've read it at least four times. Doug, Doug, Doug.
That is all.
What's your favorite "sports" book? Did you love the Spice Girls reunion at the closing ceremony as much as I did?
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