# The Boys in the Boat

by Daniel James Brown (2013)

**Verdict:** Forced on friends — You didn't recommend it. You made sure they read it.

**Who I'd hand it to:** People from the NorthWest

_ebook · finished 2021-03-01_

## Fingerprint

Positions between two named poles. Neither pole is the good end.

- Place: far toward "the place is the book"
- Moral weight: between "pressing a case" and "just a story"
- Cleverness: far toward "told straight"
- Lift: between "left me heavier" and "left me lighter"
- Friction: far toward "reads itself"
- Economy: between "compressed" and "stretched"
- Clarity: far toward "easy to hold"

_Scored from memory, some time after reading._

## How it read

How much I wanted to keep reading, at each stage.

- Beginning: eager
- Middle: eager
- End: couldn’t stop
- Afterwards: rose (better in retrospect)

## Review

I loved this book, it was set in WA, and there were characters from all over the place, a feel good story about beating Nazis at rowing.

Tags: Puget Sound, rowing, Sequim

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