The Big Bang

I'm still reading the book A short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Right now I am reading the part of the book where it explains how the universe started. It is very interesting to hear about how scientists really have no idea how we got here. There are many theories and they all sound pretty crazy. One of them is the Big Bang Theory, this theory is that the whole universe came from a particle that is microscopic and then it exploded and became the infinite universe we have today. I can't wait to read what's next in this book. I really enjoy it so far. 

My book

I just started reading a new book a called A short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. This book is about the main concepts how the Earth was made and about the Universe. So far I'm enjoying the book and I'm interested in how the how we got here in the Universe. In the first few chapters there seems to be no set characters; the author just intorduces new people that relaate to the topic and a little about what they did. Recently I went to the beach and looked up at the sky. I was in wonder when gazing at the stars. I speculated how far they were away and why they were there. I'm interested to read more in depth about the galaxy.

Finishing My Choice Read Book

I recently finished my choice read book, Moneyball by Michael Lewis. Moneyball is about the behind the scenes action and business of baseball. I really enjoyed reading this book because it was interesting how the Oakland A's revolutionized the scouting and recruiting process of baseball prospects. Managers Billy Beane and Paul Depodesta used sabermetrics, a way to analyze a player's skill by evidence in stats rather than just observation. 


Even though the book was intriguing it had an unrelated ending. The ending talked about how a pitcher, Chad Bradford, made it to the pros with his one of a kind underhand style pitch. Chad Bradford was an example of how the A's acquired great undiscovered players that no teams wanted. The A's found him by his amazing high school stats, then they put him through the A's minor teams. Though Chad Bradford's story wasn't relative to the preceding chapters it was a clever way to show how all of the A's managing techniques were put in to action. 


This book also opened my eyes to how complicated baseball truly is. To really understand a baseball play you have to take into account many countless factors and luck. Before I read this book I thought baseball was a simple boring sport and I didn't like watching it. When I finished the book however I was fascinated  by the complexity of the game and I now watch it regularly. In all, this book gave me baseball knowledge as well as gave me another sport to enjoy watching!

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My Choice Book

My free read book is Moneyball by Michael Lewis. I am enjoying the book because it is interesting to see the characters in the book on TV. I recently have seen some of the players like Nick Swisher in the Yankee game. I also recently learned that there is going to be a movie based on the book. I want to see if the movie accurately portrays how the Oakland A's revolutionized the way stats are interpreted in baseball.

My book.

My free choice book is called Moneyball by Michael Lewis. It is about the bussiness of Major League Baseball. So far the book is about the Oakland A's and how they reolutionized the recruting system of baseball. I'm enjoying the book so far and it is pretty interseting.

My reading journey.

Reading the Night Before Christmas with my parents was the first experience that I recall with books. My parents have read it to me on Christmas eve since I was a little kid. The pictures and words made me discover how books could tell amazing stories. When I was young I liked hearing stories however I didn't like to read books because I wasn't a good reader.

Reading has been a strange journey from when I was young until now, at first I disliked reading, then liked fiction, and now I read only non-fiction. Fictional books made me crave realistic stories and  realistic stories made me speculate about the past.

The very first book that I remember really liking was The Wind Singer by William Nicholson. This book felt like such a long story because it had many characters and had many settings. To me the ideas in the book were so out of this world that it was fun to imagine and paint a picture in my head of what the society was like.

After reading many fictional books for school and some for pleasure I began to get bored from the unrealistic plots and characters. At that point, around 8th grade, I began reading books that were a little more realistic. I loved the book Code Orange by Caroline Cooney, a story about a possible smallpox outbreak in present day NYC. After this stage in my reading life I began to switch to only non-fiction books.

In 9th grade I read The American Plague by Molly Crosby, I found it interesting how non-fiction books simply relayed the past and told the story of people's lives and struggles. I also read a book about adventures in some of the world's most harsh conditions. Another of my recent books was Friday Night Lights, I loved how the author described in such detail a small town in Texas. These books made reading enjoyable to me.

Presently I am reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis, another non-fiction book. My status as a reader is that I currently like reading. As of now I only hope to keep reading good books.