The Three-Year Swim Club
Aug. 18th, 2025 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThe Three-Year Swim Club by Julie Checkoway has been on my shelf for a while - it was in a mystery book box someone gifted me for Christmas but didn't really appeal to me.
I finally picked it up and the Preface did draw me in - it's a nonfiction book about a teacher at a school in Maui, who decided to try and put together an Olympic swimming team in the 1930s - and the author's voice was initially engaging and the details of the story intriguing.
But, once I got into the story proper, I quickly lost interest and found myself not wanting to pick the book back up again, even when I was on a train with nothing else to do.
It's definitely not a bad book, by any means - I just wasn't in the right frame of mind for it at the moment and it didn't grab my interest.
I finally picked it up and the Preface did draw me in - it's a nonfiction book about a teacher at a school in Maui, who decided to try and put together an Olympic swimming team in the 1930s - and the author's voice was initially engaging and the details of the story intriguing.
But, once I got into the story proper, I quickly lost interest and found myself not wanting to pick the book back up again, even when I was on a train with nothing else to do.
It's definitely not a bad book, by any means - I just wasn't in the right frame of mind for it at the moment and it didn't grab my interest.
