Kerri walsh autobiography books
Misty: Digging deep in volleyball and life
Now being a three time Olympic gold medalist, May-Treanor is often associated with volleyball, but in this book, it digs deep into her personal life and the struggles she faced along her journey to get to where she is today like growing up with alcoholic parents, possible career ending injuries, sexual assault, and the loss of her mother.
I would give this book a 4 out of 5, because of how well written it was and I also enjoyed the fact that you can tell what May-Treanor’s personality is like through the humor she includes, along with all the rhetoric she used throughout the book. I liked how she combines her personality with syntax especially when people and the media had negative comments about how her and her partner, Kerri Walsh, celebrated after winning the gold medal.
May-Treanor responds back with, “It stunned people to see two women rolling around in bikinis skin touching ’d just won an Olympic gold medal! How should we have expressed our elation? By standing across the court from each other and giving the thumbs up sign? By high fiving each other?
Kerri walsh autobiography books in order This is my athletic idol. Want to read. Chelsea has multiple books in this "She Persisted" series. I read Misty's book a few years ago and recognized some of the content from that book in this one.I don’t think so. Get over it” (). Here, the author is asking a series of questions, making the reader feel bombarded and not giving readers a moment to answer, but instead she decided to answer her own questions very quickly and confidently. And just by reading that, I got an idea of her personality. Because she answered very quickly and the way she did, it shows that she doesn’t care or want to hear anyone else’s opinion about how her and her partner should have celebrated.
I see her as confident because she’s not concerned about small judgements made by people she doesn’t even know, but she also knows her worth.
Out of the 36 comments left on Amazon, 81% of those reviewers rated the book a five out of five. One of the reviewers who gave that five out of five was E. Chan, and it states, “Some of it was sharing insights into the depths of the volleyball world, and some of it was just hilarious stories that Misty has experienced.
Misty's book reminds me of the promo line from an old movie entitled ‘Stuart Saves His Family’. The line goes: ‘You'll laugh because it's not your family, and you'll cry because it is.’ I did find myself laughing out loud, as well as having tears well up in my eyes while reading Misty's book”. And I completely agree with Chan’s comments on the book.
Kerri walsh autobiography books list Added to Cart. It had a lot of words on each page, and it was quite a big book so at a few moments, it got boring. Very interesting insight into her life and a highly readable biography. I would add this book to most juvenile collections.When he refers to the movie, “Stuart Saves His Family”, I think that quotes means that you can be embarrassed of your family and laugh it off, but at the same time, you’ll cry because deep down, they are your family. I think this relates back to the book because May-Treanor didn’t live the perfect life and may have felt embarrassed about her family at times, but she’ll always love them no matter what happens.
And just like Chan, I had many different emotions while reading every chapter, from being surprised about searching for a new volleyball partner to tearing up about the passing of her mother, and even joy and excitement when they won the gold medal in the Athens Olympic Games.
Although there were many positive reviews about the book, I did stumble upon a few negative reviews.
Giving the book a low rating of one out of five, Sarah Hannan from Amazon, states, “I started reading this book but quit within the first chapter or so as I felt like I was reading a bio on Misty's father. Needless to say, I was disappointed” and I agree only up to a point. Yes the book starts off slow and the first few chapters feel more like a biography of her father than her own, but I think it was important to include a chapter or two about her father, considering he was the one who sparked her interest in volleyball.
I do think everyone is subjected to their own opinion, but I don’t think Sarah understood the reason why her dad was a big part of the book and may think that May-Treanor is just stating a bunch of facts about her dad just to say it, but that’s not the case.
Autobiography books list I loved learning about woman athletes who made history! This was a really great book! Highlights sixteen female athletes from all types of sports with short biographies and watercolor illustrations. For example, as a young girl, both her parents were alcoholics.If she had read the rest of the book or at least further into it, she would’ve understood how her dad connects to the rest of her story and how he is one of her biggest supporters. A quote from the beginning of the book states, “Sadly, Dad is haunted by a lot of regrets from his Mexico City Olympics experience, his two failed marriages to Linda, and his lack of participation as a father to their two children.
If he could go back in time, if he could undo his mistakes, he certainly would” (22). And then May-Treanor later states, “In addition, Dad promised himself when I was born that he’d be a better father to me than he had been to Brack and Scott. He threw all of his energy behind me, into my well-being and my future. I became his mission”(86).
So earlier in the book when she was giving a small look into her father's life, it ended up tying back into the story. Like May-Treanor said, her dad wasn’t the best father to her half siblings but after she was born, he made her his number one priority by always taking care of her and giving her the opportunity to try new things and to be apart of a team even when money was tight.
I would recommend this book to any volleyball fan or for anyone who would like to know the challenges, commitment, and passion it takes just to make it further into their athletic career.
There are many moments when she does repeat a lot of information and not always going into detail so there may be moments where the book feels dry if you don’t know much about the different volleyball drills and exercises. She could have talked more about what was going on in her head whenever she won a game, qualified for a competition, or being neck in neck with a competitor, but only went into good depth for very few stories.
And because of all the repetition and lack of depth in many chapters (where I thought would have been a perfect opportunity for her to express her emotions and thoughts) I gave this book a four out of five.