Book Journal: The Blind Side

Sports literature! Love it. Michael Lewis is a pretty prolific sports writer and he's got a style that weaves fact and action pretty seamlessly.

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis

I haven't seen the movie but I feel like it's probably got to be just as good as this book. And that's not to say that this wasn't an enjoyable read. It's just that, as a story centered around sports and all themes associated with sports, there is a certain level of actual visibility that heightens it, regardless of how well a story's written.

Michael Lewis has some great research in here, and paints a great picture of the Tuohy family, making them likeable even in their Evangelical, rich South, kill-me-now kind of way. Michael Oher's story is nothing short of fascinating and an incredible beating-the-odds story that resonates on absolutely every level. That being said, Oher's story loses some momentum every few chapters, when Lewis goes into the history of the left tackle position, and of the general NCAA and NFL arenas of the time. It's necessary info, and fascinating to boot, but the occludes to Oher's progression are a little too extreme. Perhaps he could have benefited from weaving in the history more into Oher's story, so that the necessary historical and factual chapters about football itself were shorter and less of a halt in Oher's story, which is, ostensibly, the reason why people purchased the book to begin with.

7/10

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Today I received an ok from a literary agent to submit my manuscript to her. And now I've formatted it correctly and sent it to her.

Pinch me.

5 days was all it took.

Stay grounded, kiddo. You! Help me at it!

AWWW HERE GOES

Last draft.

Done.

Query submitted, agency 1.

Done.

My future.

Starting.