Week 2 Reading Post Part 2

Today I read Like Brothers by Dave Giffels for 5 hours and 46 minutes.

This fictional story is portrayed through the viewpoint of Ted, a seventh-grader who goes out for the basketball team for the first time. The new basketball coach tries to shape the basketball team to play like brothers when the previous year the offense had been a one man show. Early in the story Ted is frustrated because his dad seems uninterested when he makes the team. Ted later finds out that his dad was driving drunk after a college party and hit a family driving home from the movies. This cost him his basketball scholarship. After Ted's dad shares this with him, he is able to get back into the game of basketball as his son's team goes into the playoffs.

This book helped to drive the point home to me that no matter what the task, trying to do it myself is not going to work. It also makes me appreciate the relationship that I have with my parents.

Totals: 21 hours and 28 minutes/ 926 pages