It’s a new year so another year of reading!
Enjoy the View by Sarah Morgenthaler
★★★★
This is the 3rd book in the Moose Springs, Alaska series. I read the first two in
December and had to impatiently wait until this one came out on January 19th.
All of the people from books 1 and 2 (Zoey, Graham, Lana, Rick, Easton, and others)
are present but we are introduced to River Lane and her documentary film crew.
River is a former Hollywood-starlet-turned-documentary-producer. They are in
Moose Springs to film a documentary for the small town. Of course, as we have seen
in the first two books, the locals are not going to go out of their way to be friendly to
River. But, River is determined to film this documentary, no matter what it takes.
So…she decides she and her crew will climb Mount Veil. It is not Denali but it definitely
has its challenges. “Gentle giant” and mountaineer Easton Lockett is hired to take
them up and back down the mountain. River is fearless and the film crew are
determined to get great shots and videos. As if the weather and dangerous terrain
are not enough, Easton starts falling for River. This takes the task of getting them all
safely off of the mountain even mmore important. While this book did seem a little
more cheesy than the other two (or maybe I was “done” with it), it was good and I
was fully invested in Moose Springs, AK and all of its visitors and locals alike.
Scott Jurek is a world-renowned ultrarunner. He placed first in almost all of the
ultrarunning events he participated in throughout his career. However, after nearly
two decades of racing, he felt he needed to do something new. So, he decided to run
the Appalachian trail. So, in the spring of 2015, he set out on a 2,189-mile journey
from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. The terrain was
punishing, the weather, unpredictable, and, with a feat like this, the inevitable injuries.
He pushed his body to its limits (and maybe past the limits sometimes) – usually
very little sleep in a van and sometimes on the trail, and very few comforts – but
even more than that, the physical and mental struggles. It was a seven-week
journey and sometimes up to 50 miles run in a day but he always his support: his
wife Jenny, various fellow runners that were eager to run with him, his running friends
who traveled from many states, and his followers on the Internet. The book is written
from both his point of view and Jenny’s point of view. I really liked hearing from both
about how this trip/feat/journey affected them. It is very well written and
almost makes me want to run the Appalachian trail.
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