by Jason Reynolds
I'm very glad I waited on the audiobook! The library had two copies and they were checked out for months. But worth it--the narrator rocks!
Yes, he sounded like an educated man in his twenties playacting the voice of his early teenage self, but he sounded so right. Especially when the author went off on totally idiotic asides--you can hear the joke in his voice: describing a man as a white James Brown; laughing at the word fartlek; perfecting his method of consuming sunflower seeds....
It's funny, really. Not out loud funny, but smiling one minute and heartbreaking the next, funny. I can't think of any episodes to tell about that wouldn't be giving away the story, but imagine what would happen if you'd just spent an hour running away from a bad situation only to arrive at track practice to find out the workout for the day was long distance running? With the coach trailing behind in The Motivator Machine?
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