Author: Ernest Hemingway
Year: 1940
Page count: 507 (about 37 pages a day)
My feelings before reading
I am excited to read this book. I have heard the name Hemingway many times, and I am sure many of the words I speak are influenced by his writing, but I am ashamed to say that I have never read a work by his name. The only thing I know about him is that he is a legendary American author who is known for writing very elegant prose. I received my copy of this book as a Christmas gift a few years ago, and it has been burning a hole on my bookshelf ever since.
About the Author
Hemingway lived an adventurous life. He was born in 1899, served in Italy with the Red Cross, saw the beaches of Normandy and the freeing of Paris as a journalist, won a Pulitzer in 1952, a Nobel Prize in 1954, and killed himself in 1961. He lived everywhere from Paris, Toronto, Utah, Wyoming, and Cuba. He wrote seven novels as well as many short stories. Hemingway also experienced a disturbing number of accidents and injuries, including but not limited to mortar fire in 1918, a brushfire, two plane crashes, at least two car crashes, and a severe head injury involving a skylight in a bathroom. He also experienced many health ailments towards the end of his life, many of which were brought upon by heavy drinking. His other novels include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and To Have and Have Not.
Exercise Goals
I plan to run a mile every other day, as well as do situps, pushups, and planks to exhaustion after each run. I would try running every day, but I haven't exercised in quite a while, and I think this would cause burn out at the very least and most likely injury. Perhaps after a month or 2 of this regiment, I will be able to run daily. My first day will be today, the second of January.
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