So far this summer I have still not been able to really sit down and enjoy any of my books in my personal connection. My summer has been filled with me reading textbooks and moving around from house to house. Maybe I will finally have a chance to crack open a personal book this weekend when I am on the bus for 12 hours. So I guess that means I am going to be writing about a reading issue that I find important.
Well, after sitting here and thinking about it I can't really think of a reading issue that is on my mind so I will talk about the book I started reading. For the past couple of years I have slowly been reading thru the book: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Its not that I am a slow reader its just that I forget about this book and come back to it on days when I want to read something intriguing.
One of the chapters entitled Dangerous Beauty talks about Yellowstone National Park and the history behind it. Well in this chapter the author tells us a story about some park employees. Late one night, three young summer employees engaged in illicit activity known as "hot potting"-swimming or basking in warm pools. The author continues to tell you the story and in the end you find out that these particular employees were not smart about it and ended up dieing one night while not being safe. When I read this story I thought it was funny and sad at the same time, and if not for this sentence I probably would have skipped over the story and kept reading the rest of the book. I also found this sentence interesting because I have been to Yellowstone many times and I didn't realize that some of the pools in Yellowstone are cool enough to swim in, I mean obviously they cant announce it but I did find it interesting. I think that might be why after reading this sentence I was interested in reading the rest of the story maybe in hopes of a few laughs.
I will hopefully finish this book and a few other personal books this summer when I have some time to sit down in do it. Can't wait to keep reading.
Hi Mackenzie! That sounds like an interesting book. How did the employee's die? Did they get in to a hot pool that was too HOT? I have books that I read that I can put down and still come back to it when I am ready and get right back into reading it. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah the employees died when they decided to get drunk one night and ended up miscalculating how hot the pool was and basically baked to death. Yeah this is one of those books my grandpa gave me for christmas when I was little and I really love science and learning how the universe works and this book has everything about the universe.
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