a memory of running

ok, so the book quoted in the title is one i had never heard of until i read the cnn headline and was immediately compelled to not only read about how stephen king managed to get this author published, but to go ahead and order it on amazon..........for me to read, but also for my significants...the ones who rode across america on a bike....though not to conquer alhoholism.....they had reasons of their own but not that particular one............i have begun a book partly by stephen king....a blog-style record of the red sox's world series winning series.......i know from watching nearly every nationally televised sox game that stephen king is a huge fan.......he is beyond that...he can name every player who has played, who plays for the farm teams, who even thought about playing........but back to this book and this author.........what a nice thing for stephen king to do, as an advocate for good books.....i finished nick hornby's book last night......i really enjoy his talk-talk style of writing......especially a line that i will quote poorly here......'while there may be poorly written books, there are also books that are poorly read.......that is quite true, i suppose,...i have poorly read many a novel.........but i stand before you ready to reform.......yeh, right......