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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I have no idea how this ended up on my TBR list, let alone remembering adding it to my request from the library for an audiobook. But apparently I did as I got a "your request is ready for download", and having just finished an audiobook, I shrugged and downloaded it.
And I'm glad past me did request this book. It was infinitely fascinating. Pulitzer Prize winning author Gene Weingarten asked a friend "what happened on some random day" and proposed a book on that concept. Loving the idea he and his friend asked random people to pull a slip of paper out of three hats. One hat determined the month, one the day and the final a year. This resulted in the random day being Sunday, December 28, 1986. Weingarten then proceeded to find stories from across the country of things that happened that day and how that random day, that random story effected the outcome/future of those random people and/or the country/society.
There were stories of how a random encounter at a bar lead to an impulsive engagement that lead to a marriage that survives to this day. How the first time Instant Replay was used as a ruling in the NFL. The desperate attempt to find a missing woman. An amazing concert given by The Grateful Dead. And more.
This was an engrossing snapshot into an ordinary day in the United State and the reading by Johnathan McClain helped all the more. I very much recommend.
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene WeingartenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I have no idea how this ended up on my TBR list, let alone remembering adding it to my request from the library for an audiobook. But apparently I did as I got a "your request is ready for download", and having just finished an audiobook, I shrugged and downloaded it.
And I'm glad past me did request this book. It was infinitely fascinating. Pulitzer Prize winning author Gene Weingarten asked a friend "what happened on some random day" and proposed a book on that concept. Loving the idea he and his friend asked random people to pull a slip of paper out of three hats. One hat determined the month, one the day and the final a year. This resulted in the random day being Sunday, December 28, 1986. Weingarten then proceeded to find stories from across the country of things that happened that day and how that random day, that random story effected the outcome/future of those random people and/or the country/society.
There were stories of how a random encounter at a bar lead to an impulsive engagement that lead to a marriage that survives to this day. How the first time Instant Replay was used as a ruling in the NFL. The desperate attempt to find a missing woman. An amazing concert given by The Grateful Dead. And more.
This was an engrossing snapshot into an ordinary day in the United State and the reading by Johnathan McClain helped all the more. I very much recommend.
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