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A review by bookgirl1209
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
3.0
Smithy Ide has had a tough life..he's lost both his parents and his long lost sister. He's overweight, he smokes and drinks and really doesn't have much of a life. So he decides to ride his bicycle from Rhode Island to California to go claim his sister's body.
This is not a surface kind of read. This one grabs you by making you figure out what and why Smithy is doing. A 300 lb man suddenly gives up smoking and drinking and starts riding his bike 10, 20 miles a day..unbelievable!
But when you stop and think and pay attention to the metamorphosis that Smithy goes through in dealing with his grief and the disappointment in himself and his life it's much easier to suspend disbelief and enjoy the show.
Smithy is a character that I think will stay with me awhile.
This is not a surface kind of read. This one grabs you by making you figure out what and why Smithy is doing. A 300 lb man suddenly gives up smoking and drinking and starts riding his bike 10, 20 miles a day..unbelievable!
But when you stop and think and pay attention to the metamorphosis that Smithy goes through in dealing with his grief and the disappointment in himself and his life it's much easier to suspend disbelief and enjoy the show.
Smithy is a character that I think will stay with me awhile.