WhiteBlaze Pages 2024
A Complete Appalachian Trail Guidebook.
AVAILABLE NOW. $4 for interactive PDF(smartphone version)
Read more here WhiteBlaze Pages Store

Results 1 to 8 of 8
  1. #1
    Registered User
    Join Date
    06-25-2012
    Location
    Lurkerville, East Tn
    Age
    64
    Posts
    3,719
    Journal Entries
    1

    Default Book Review: The 29th Day

    Just finished a book I received as a Christmas gift: The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger.

    In 2005 at age 17, the author and five other guys (including a guide) began a long-distance canoe trip through the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

    The story is well put together, moving along expeditiously from day to day, with suspense building up to Day 29. The storytelling is both matter-of-fact and emotional, letting you skim through the whitewater and feel the exhilaration and thrill.
    LAFB7004[1].JPG
    Last edited by illabelle; 01-17-2021 at 12:33.

  2. #2
    Registered User JNI64's Avatar
    Join Date
    01-23-2019
    Location
    Harpers ferry wv.
    Age
    60
    Posts
    2,087

    Default

    Cool thanks, I'm not much of a reader but like these non fiction adventures type books. I might look into picking it up for a hike next month in the SNP.

  3. #3
    Registered User One Half's Avatar
    Join Date
    08-05-2010
    Location
    in a bus
    Age
    53
    Posts
    1,802

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by illabelle View Post
    Just finished a book I received as a Christmas gift: The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger.

    In 2005 at age 17, the author and five other guys (including a guide) began a long-distance canoe trip through the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

    The story is well put together, moving along expeditiously from day to day, with suspense building up to Day 29. The storytelling is both matter-of-fact and emotional, letting you skim through the whitewater and feel the exhilaration and thrill.
    LAFB7004[1].JPG
    you might think about gifting it forward as I have done. I have done this many times with books and have a thread here about my latest one. (which by the way, is available again for the asking)

    https://whiteblaze.net/forum/showthr...54#post2279154
    https://tinyurl.com/MyFDresults

    A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White

  4. #4
    Registered User
    Join Date
    06-25-2012
    Location
    Lurkerville, East Tn
    Age
    64
    Posts
    3,719
    Journal Entries
    1

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by JNI64 View Post
    Cool thanks, I'm not much of a reader but like these non fiction adventures type books. I might look into picking it up for a hike next month in the SNP.
    My husband hates to read also - unless it's a technical manual for automotive work. He says the only book he's ever read is Jack London's To Built a Fire. Is that even a book? I thought it was a short story. LOL
    I think he would enjoy this book, but he'd like it better if I read it to him, or if somebody turned it into a movie.

  5. #5
    Registered User
    Join Date
    06-25-2012
    Location
    Lurkerville, East Tn
    Age
    64
    Posts
    3,719
    Journal Entries
    1

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by PennyPincher View Post
    you might think about gifting it forward as I have done. I have done this many times with books and have a thread here about my latest one. (which by the way, is available again for the asking)

    https://whiteblaze.net/forum/showthr...54#post2279154
    I will keep that in mind. Maybe I'll share it with a few family members, then send it on.
    Thanks for the suggestion.

  6. #6

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by illabelle View Post
    My husband hates to read also - unless it's a technical manual for automotive work. He says the only book he's ever read is Jack London's To Built a Fire. Is that even a book? I thought it was a short story. LOL
    I think he would enjoy this book, but he'd like it better if I read it to him, or if somebody turned it into a movie.
    That's a very memorable story which I would also say is a short story but reading is like hiking. Some may think a 3 mile hike is arduous but it helps to humor the person to encourage further activity! A Piece of Steak is another memorable Jack London work I'd recommend if he liked To Built a Fire.
    "Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
    Sleepin by the river just like he usually done
    Call for his whisky
    He can call for his tea
    Call all he wanta but he can't call me..."
    Robert Hunter & Ron McKernan

    Whiteblaze.net User Agreement.

  7. #7
    Registered User
    Join Date
    06-25-2012
    Location
    Lurkerville, East Tn
    Age
    64
    Posts
    3,719
    Journal Entries
    1

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Alligator View Post
    That's a very memorable story which I would also say is a short story but reading is like hiking. Some may think a 3 mile hike is arduous but it helps to humor the person to encourage further activity! A Piece of Steak is another memorable Jack London work I'd recommend if he liked To Built a Fire.
    I'll have to look that up. I read Call of the Wild and White Fang at least twice as a youth. Never ran across A Piece of Steak.

  8. #8
    Registered User
    Join Date
    12-19-2005
    Location
    Knoxville, TN
    Posts
    3,715
    Images
    3

    Default

    I read Call of the Wild


    i'll give you a hint about this book-----don't start reading it when you crawl into tent for the night....

    especially when the hogs that were around the campsite (CS 28 in GSMNP)...


    i gave up after a few paragraphs.....

    i didnt need a description of animals in a book running around, while i had animals
    running around my tent....

    your mileage may vary though...

++ New Posts ++

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •