Kathryn Bertine
Autor de All the Sundays Yet to Come: A Skater's Journey
Sobre El Autor
Kathryn Bertine is a former professional figure skater and currently competes as an elite triathlete. She graduated from Colgate University in 1997 and holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, including ESPN: The Magazine, mostrar más Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, and Us Weekly. Originally from Bronxville, New York, she now lives in Boulder, Colorado mostrar menos
Obras de Kathryn Bertine
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
As Good As Gold: 1 Woman, 9 Sports, 10 Countries,… por Kathryn Bertine
A great book on athletics, drive and female athletes. For your daughter, niece, or any one with a little bit of athletic drive.
This memoir of an ice skater who "failed" while sinking into anorexia was not the book I was expecting from the description. I wound up skimming a lot of it because it was just boring.
Read during Fall 2004
A compelling but somewhat scattered memoir of Bertine's life as a skater, rower, and triathlete. Her story is interesting but the writing style is hard to get invovled with. I actually liked the way she bounced back and forth in time to tell her story; stuck in South America on a horror of a touring ice show back to training as an amatuer in a cold rink in Yonkers. I think there is probably alot more depth of feeling but her breezy style makes it hard to see. Perhaps that is the intent but it didn't completely work. Still, an extremely engrossing story.… (más)
A compelling but somewhat scattered memoir of Bertine's life as a skater, rower, and triathlete. Her story is interesting but the writing style is hard to get invovled with. I actually liked the way she bounced back and forth in time to tell her story; stuck in South America on a horror of a touring ice show back to training as an amatuer in a cold rink in Yonkers. I think there is probably alot more depth of feeling but her breezy style makes it hard to see. Perhaps that is the intent but it didn't completely work. Still, an extremely engrossing story.… (más)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 59
- Popularidad
- #280,813
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 9