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Swimming Studies

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"Swimming Studies" is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager to enjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shapton offers a fascinating glimpse into the private, often solitary, realm of swimming. Her spare and elegant writing re...more

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Published July 5th 2012 by Blue Rider Press (first published July 1st 2012)

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Feb 06, 2013 Leigh Newman rated it 4 of 5 stars

Growing up in Canada, Leanne Shapton was one of a handful of teenagers hand-picked to become world-class swimmers. She made 5 a.m. practices, traveled to distant meets and developed an obsession with time due to stop watches that gave her "the ability to make still lifes out of tenths of seconds." And then came the moment at age 14, when it occurs to her "gently, in a quiet flash: I'm not going to go to the Olympics. I will not be going. Not me." Rather that quit the team, she continues to train...more

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Feb 07, 2013 Jo Bennie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shapton's book is part autobiography part art. As a young girl she followed her brother into swimming and became an elite swimmer, her career culminating in taking part in the 1988 and 1992 Canadian Olympic Trials. Although her time as an athlete is over she speaks in her book of how her dreams are still of the endless round of land and water training, trials, competitions, training camps, early mornings and long distance journeys, of teammates, coaches, food and the sights and sounds of the poo...more

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Dec 12, 2012 Matt rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm kind of crazy for Shapton's stuff, which makes me kind of a stereotype or something. But super-designy books feel a little like the reward you give yourself for reading lots of books that are mostly just words, and this one doesn't disappoint in that way: lots of watercolors, and toward the end, some sketches (of Vals) that look like they might use thin line magic markers) breaking up prose passages about Shapton's long life as a swimmer-- she tried out for the Olympics in 88 and 92, not mak...more

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Sep 12, 2012 Andy Miller rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book is described as a " well written memoir of competitive and recreational swimming" by a former swimmer who qualified for Olympic Trials but not the Olympics. There were great parts to the book, in her first chapter the author, Leanne Shapton, gives an insider's detailed account of the moments before a race in an elite meet, explaining timing, lane judging, lane assignments and the pre race psychology in the ready room and on deck before the race. Shapton also described the swimmer/coach...more

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Jul 17, 2012 Hannah rated it 5 of 5 stars

Leanne Shapton is my newest writer-crush & possibly the best describer of colors and smells I have ever read. When I read her weirdly brilliant novel/auction catalog "Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris", in which descriptions of shirts and salt-shakers made me cry, I knew it was love. Her latest, Swimming Stories, is a memoir of her time as a competitive (nearly Olympic!) swimmer, which is a brilliant disguise for a book about mak...more

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Apr 01, 2013 Sian Lile-Pastore rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir, non-fiction, ahh-these-are-my-favourites, five-star-books

I love Leanne Shapton's books - they go beyond writing and are more like art books in a Sophie Calle and Miranda July kind of way.
This book is a memoir of sorts, mainly about swimming, but also about family and love and art and travel. I would say that you would love this book even if you don't have any interest in swimming, but you perhaps won't love it if you just picked it up BECAUSE it's about swimming.
For me though, there was a lot to relate to as I am about the same age as Shapton and als...more

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Sep 13, 2012 Lara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fic

The design of this book is gorgeous. Here's a tip: if you hold this book in the sunlight, it reflects the colour of pool water in your room. I think I need a copy just so I can achieve this illusion in the winter.

This is a non-fic that reads like a story. It offers insights into the world of the competetive swimmer that I've never thought about (electronic touch pads? wat?), but also delves deeply into the author's own life and reflections. I realize this will be filed with the sports books, but...more

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Sep 12, 2012 Heather rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: library-books, nonfiction, art

(Somewhat shortened version of my thoughts on this book; full blog post here.)

In the last of the thirty pieces (some all text, some all images, some a mix of both) that make up Swimming Studies, Leanne Shapton writes this:

I think about loving swimming the way you love somebody. How a kiss happens, gravitational. About compromise, sacrifice, and breakup. [...]

I think about loving swimming the way you love a country. The backseat of my father's car, driving through Toronto's older neighborhoods

...more (Somewhat shortened version of my thoughts on this book; full blog post here.)

In the last of the thirty pieces (some all text, some all images, some a mix of both) that make up Swimming Studies, Leanne Shapton writes this:

I think about loving swimming the way you love somebody. How a kiss happens, gravitational. About compromise, sacrifice, and breakup. [...]

I think about loving swimming the way you love a country. The backseat of my father's car, driving through Toronto's older neighborhoods to see the Christmas lights. Framed photographs of a twenty-six-year-old Queen Elizabeth above classroom blackboards, ill-fitting wool coats and fur coats, ice-skate exchanges. A community center pool parking lot at four fifty-five a.m., where sleet makes the sound of brushed steel against a car door. A frozen rope clangs against a flagpole. (The door to the far left is unlocked; inside, warm, the pool lights flicker on in bays.) Ever present is the smell of chlorine, and the drifting of snow in the dark. (319-320)

I love that passage, and I think it captures a lot of what I like about Shapton's style, about this whole book. Shapton was a competitive swimmer in her teens, good enough to swim at the Canadian Olympic trials, twice, and this book is about her life as a swimmer, past and present. It's about growing up in Canada and getting up in the cold and dark for early practices; it's about hard work and sore muscles and the pressure of being a serious athlete; it's about swimming's place in Shapton's life over the years, and now. I like the mix of description and introspection—the book is full of descriptions of the various places where Shapton swims/has swum—from a hotel/spa in Switzerland that offers silent night-time swims for hotel guests to a hotel pool in Canada that's glass-bottomed and overlooks the hotel entrance to a phosphorescent ocean to athletic center pools that look much alike. I like, too, how Shapton explores her ambivalence towards swimming, or maybe just towards swimming competitively, and all that it entails (which is probably similar to what being any kind of serious athlete entails): what is all the discipline and effort for? What does it take out of you and what does it give you? Shapton also compares her past focus on swimming to her career focus as an artist: she explores the idea of "practice," athletic and artistic, considering ideas of "rigor" and "brilliance," repetition and "specialness."

Whether Shapton is writing about the corrections a coach gives a swimmer or about baking a lemon cake or about visualizing a race beforehand (practicing her breathing while making breakfast in the kitchen in the very early morning), her prose is precise and lovely. And her insights are sharp: there's one passage when she talks about watching her now-husband swim in the ocean on their first vacation together, where she writes this: "Watching him in the waves, I realize he doesn't see life as rigor and deprivation. To him it's something to enjoy, where the focus is not on how to win, but how to flourish" (136). That's a far cry from the "total focus and total sacrifice" that swimming competitively demands (that phrase is from a memo to the team from one of Shapton's coaches, during her Olympic trial days) (202). Part of the pleasure of the book, I think, is in watching Shapton explore things like this: in figuring out what swimming means and has meant to her, she's figuring out how she is and has been in the world, and also noticing other ways to be. (less)

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Apr 10, 2013 Asya rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow, this book did a number on me. As a competitive swimmer at just about LS's level (nationals, US Open, the whole lot, up through qualifying for trials, then quitting), this really hit home, and hard. So much so that I think someone who hasn't swam reads this, as per LS, as a trip to a foreign country, the chlorinated, exhausted, anxious, lonely, and self-contained world of the swimmer. But as one recovering from the experience, this was more nostalgia than foreign country, a return, and a vis...more

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Mar 01, 2013 Megan Richardson rated it 5 of 5 stars

I've read memoirs by swimmers before, but Shapton's was different. Better. The other memoirs I read because the authors were famous - Amanda Beard, Natalie Coughlin, Dara Torres, Ed Moses, etc. Swimming Studies focused on the experience of growing up a swimmer rather than the outcome. The style of this book wasn't typical either. Rather than write chronologically, the book is made up of little vignettes - windows into Shapton's swimming past. This stream of conciousness style was reminiscent of...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Cherry rated it 4 of 5 stars

Leanne Shapton's medidation on her life as a swimmer in Canada might not appeal to everyone... but for me it was perfect. While I never competed, I was a lifeguard for many years, and I still swim and still see myself as a swimmer. As I did other sports competitively, understood her musings on athletic rigour, coaches, and dealing with pain.
Like Leanne, I have favourite pools in Canada and around the world (some of which she mentions in the book!), favourite swim suits...

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Aug 26, 2012 Patrick rated it 4 of 5 stars

I have little interest in memoir as a genre. To me, the best-written memoirs approach the status of great fiction both in terms of their relationship to historical truth, and in their ability to express both what is particular and what is universal about human experience. To put it another way, the best memoirs ought not to read like a shopping list of great achievements, but an interpretation of one’s own past which, in the writing, makes it both untrue and more true in the same way as a good n...more I have little interest in memoir as a genre. To me, the best-written memoirs approach the status of great fiction both in terms of their relationship to historical truth, and in their ability to express both what is particular and what is universal about human experience. To put it another way, the best memoirs ought not to read like a shopping list of great achievements, but an interpretation of one’s own past which, in the writing, makes it both untrue and more true in the same way as a good novel. (I don’t know if that makes anything clear or not, but frankly who cares. I never was a great one for literary theory.)

Normally, a sporting memoir would interest me least of all. I don’t follow any sports, had a fairly terrible time with competitive and team-based activities in my youth, and I’ve never been a particularly athletic person. But I’ve always had a fascination with the life of professional athletes and how separate and different and intensely structured it is compared to the kind of things other people do. This book is about all those things. I also like to swim a bit, so there’s that.

But what also attracted me to this book was that it lacks a narrative arc towards any overriding single success or failure. In her case, the author wasn’t quite good enough to make her Olympic team. She was one of thousands of young people who are sucked up into the machine of professional athletics and then spat out at the other end, left wondering what to do with all those medals and all that training. How is it supposed to fit into the rest of your life, this thing that you were once told was your life? Was it all in vain? Much of this book is a meditation on exactly this question:

‘The idea of specialness occurs to me one night when I can’t sleep (or bake). That as good athletes, we defined ourselves as special, then submitted to a routine in which we did exactly as we were told. I think of the limitations that ‘specialness’ requires: doing a series of very unspecial things, very well, over and over, a million times over, so that one special thing might happen, maybe, much later. So – I think to myself in the four a.m. blear, face squashed into my pillow – specialness is sanctioned, rigorous unspecialness. An unexpected feeling of relief flows over me. Then dissipates as I start grinding my teeth.’

It seems the author shares my fascination with those athletes who are destined never to quite reach the highest levels of their own sport. She finds the likes of Michael Phelps and Serena Williams faintly boring – they are ‘serene in aspect, utterly incomprehensible’ -- and her interest is piqued only when the mask slips and Williams erupts into a violent outburst, or Phelps stops talking about swimming and starts talking about his favourite bulldog.

This is very much the approach Shapton takes to her own studies of swimming; while there are plenty of well-written descriptions of the sport here, the book is more about the stuff that went on in and around the swimming itself. The food she ate, the friends she made, the places where she swam, the costumes she wore. All of this is quite beautifully rendered, with a careful and vaguely obsessive eye for every detail:

‘I see the rounded edges of my parents’ kitchen countertop – a small swelling lip dropping down to a ninety-degree vertical, ivory laminate chosen from a fan of colors on a beaded chain. The three steps leading down to our side door. The way the light from our basement window fell on a small snowdrift. The pale blue shade of the seat belt in my mother’s station wagon.

Certainly athleticism has not destroyed her enjoyment of swimming, but it has turned it into something quite different to what she repeatedly calls ‘bathing’; for one thing, the author seems to find a kind of peace in executing repetitive, graceful actions both inside and outside of the pool (‘...between my thrice-daily swims, I paint the view from my window twenty-three times.’). And yet all those hours in the pool have also induced an abiding uncertainty about open-water swimming; the author compares her comfort in a pool to her contentedness in solitude, and her helplessness at sea to her anxieties in close company, realising at last ‘how easy life can be when it’s limited, how manageable.’ And how interesting that sport, which is so often thought of as being about expanding personal boundaries to an unlimited extent, really turns out to be about redrawing one’s own personality to better incorporate oneself into the world.(less)

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Mar 24, 2013 Judy rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a gorgeous book buoyed (pardon the pun) by Leanne Shapton's quietly, colorful, and at times, subdued illustrations. The prose that moves through this book is a triumph. A New Yorker Review put it beautifully:

"Shapton’s book captures the mental state that is unique to the monotony of laps in a pool. Thoughts have an unmoored, weightless quality. They drift, circle, repeat, and weave together according to a rhythm maintained by counted breaths ... and punctuated by flip turns like cymbal...more

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Dec 22, 2012 Jody rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to any athlete or person whose life is revolved around self-discipline, but it also saddened me a lot. I felt that her talent became something she resents, like baggage she carries and is not quite sure what to do with. And that she is a bit ocd as a result, is like an elephant in the room. Alluded to but not quite explored or admitted. The vignettes are nice to read in small doses but the lack of narrative arc, & the intoduction of random character...more

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Sep 26, 2012 Tami Lynn Andrew rated it 3 of 5 stars

Disclaimer: I am reviewing this as a Leanne Shapton fan, so my opinion of the book is entirely dependent on that.
If the entire book had been written through the means of drawings, paintings, photographs, and captions it would have been a totally wonderful book. Unfortunately the weakest parts of the book are the written narrative. Leanne Shapton is just SO PHENOMENAL at telling a story through quiet snippets of moments, so by actually writing out these stories, the book loses a bit of it's intr...more

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Mar 09, 2013 Patricia rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: swimming, competition, writing, art, travel

If you love to swim, you will love this book. Shapton captures the world of pools, chlorine, competition, and early morning workouts. Besides experiencing at an early age the rigor of training for Olympic trials, the author is able to draw parallels between practicing for a swim meet and practicing drawing, What adds layers of meaning to this unconventional book is the breadth and depth of her talents as writer, artist, and swimmer. She is a first rate observer, and detailer of sensory memory. S...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Robert E. Kennedy Library rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is one of those books that I like in small sips, just to get the taste in my mouth. It's so thick with memory and mood. It's the author's memories of her swimming life, which is a root theme that branches deep below the surface to serve all sorts of metaphors. In addition to text there are also watercolors of swimmers and smells and photos of swimsuits the author has worn with information about where she bought them and where she's worn them. It may sound mundane, but it's lovely.

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Dec 27, 2012 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars

A chlorinated reverie. You end up with a portrait but it's as if you are only allowed to open your eyes for a second -- close them -- open them -- while the thing you are looking at spins and spins. Only a few times did I feel dizzy and disappointed and wish for less of an oblique stance. Mostly, I was left awed by her sense of smell and precise recollection of detail, and impressed by what she didn't talk about.

I loved this: "Watching a good swimmer is the visual equivalent of patting a dog's s...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Gregg rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was a gift from a friend, who probably thought I would relate to the story since I'm also a former competitive swimmer. She was right, I did relate to a lot of her experiences with competitive swimming and the connection to the water. The dedication to competing at an elite level was a huge training commitment and even though it's been a long time since I competed, is still a big part of my life. Once a swimmer, always a swimmer. I really liked the way she describes the little details...more

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Nov 11, 2012 Heather Noble rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is truly scrumptious. It's a celebration and reflection of swimming and a meditation on the author coming to realise that competitive swimming is not for her but art and swimming pools will dominate her life.
The book itself is a joy to look at with pages of swimming costumes, portraits of swimmers and representations of swimming pools.
The writing is exquisitely seductive as the imagery and intensity of this personal memoir coaxes the reader to relax into the luxury of curling up quietl...more

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Jan 24, 2013 sean rated it 4 of 5 stars

a book about swimming inherently attracts me, especially when dwelling obsessively on all things water related, including all of her visual work, which is surprisingly effective. but the narrative is a little patchy, jumping in and out of her timeline and slight confusion over characters and way too much time spent on competitive swimming. overall though, it's a great meditation on the headspace of swimmers and the joys of seeing the world through the world of pools. a nice piece of revelation a...more

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Apr 11, 2013 Kaitlin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: canadian-literature, essays, recommended

Wow. I really enjoyed this book.

For me, the book goes through a progression echoing the author's growth as a swimmer and probably a writer/artist. At first it is very pragmatic and filled and focused on her introduction into swimming: teams, times, swimmers, equipment. Then very courageous in its honesty and details. Shapton reveals moments of weakness, self-loathing, aimlessness, and even bouts of depression. Lastly, it is introspective and more revealing of near present details and how swimmin...more

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May 04, 2013 Olivia rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: summer-reading-2013

I really enjoyed reading this book. It's 320 pages of sweet nostalgia, described deftly, evocatively, sensually. Almost like being underwater: quiet and floating and physically aware. As a former swimmer, I wondered how much distance I had from the subject matter: could a non-swimmer feel the descriptions of the natatorium's steam, the muscle burn, the dizziness of a quick flip turn as well as I did? I wasn't sure if it was the writer's skill or my own memory at work there.

The book as a whole i...more

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Feb 04, 2013 Lindsay (Little Reader Library) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, sport, memoir

‘I dream about swimming at least three nights a week.’

Leanne Shapton used to be a competitive swimmer. She trained for the 1988 and 1992 Canadian Olympic swimming trials when she was a teenager. Now, as an adult, she reflects on the training she did, the fiercely competitive world she was part of, and looks at what part this might all play in her life now that she is no longer involved in the swimming competitions which once totally dominated her life.

It’s fascinating to read about the world tha...more ‘I dream about swimming at least three nights a week.’

Leanne Shapton used to be a competitive swimmer. She trained for the 1988 and 1992 Canadian Olympic swimming trials when she was a teenager. Now, as an adult, she reflects on the training she did, the fiercely competitive world she was part of, and looks at what part this might all play in her life now that she is no longer involved in the swimming competitions which once totally dominated her life.

It’s fascinating to read about the world that Leanne Shapton was once part of from the insider’s perspective that she offers us. Clearly the years she spent training so intensively still dominate her life and thoughts even now:

‘I still dream of practice, of races, coaches and blurry competitors. I’m drawn to swimming pools, all swimming pools, no matter how small or murky. When I swim now, I step into the water as though absentmindedly touching a scar. My recreational laps are phantoms of my competitive races.’

There are some great illustrations that add to reader’s understanding of the author’s former world and her experiences – images of Leanne Shapton’s collection of her own swimming costumes and also watercolour pictures of the swimming pools she has swum in. There are images of other swimmers, and the author’s thoughts and reflections about them or anecdotes concerning them.

It’s an intensely personal book of intimate memories, experiences and feelings. The recollections and musings move forward and backwards in time throughout Leanne Shapton’s life. Bringing together her former athletic and her current artistic pursuits, the book also discusses the similarities of effort that both demand. In the author's words, ‘artistic discipline and athletic discipline are kissing cousins.’

The hardback copy of the book, which is the one I have read, is a lovely volume, very pleasing to hold and read. There are just two shades of blue used on the cover, which boasts the title, the author's name and nothing else but a rectangle of light blue to denote a swimming pool; it’s a simple yet very attractive and effective design.

This is a thoughtful, involving and unusual memoir offering an glimpse into one woman's past and present, illustrating the strict routine and dedication of a swimmer in training to potentially swim for their country at the highest level, and pondering what a person does with that level of dedication and commitment when such an activity is no longer undertaken competitively and life has moved on. I found this an interesting, engaging read, and liked the inclusion of the author's artwork to create a fuller impression of the swimmer's world and add an extra dimension to the book. I'm not an enormous fan of swimming but this didn't hinder my interest in reading about Leanne Shapton's life.(less)

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Jan 09, 2013 Bailey rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, 2012-favorites

Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton was such a beautiful, inventive book. Shapton takes a thoughtful look at the life of a competitive athlete in a solitary sport, and how those abilities linger and manifest once your days of competing are over. I come from a distance running background and have always felt like running and swimming are first cousins, both involving hours of practice alone with your physical limits and discomfort. Nothing to break up the activity but thoughts in your head as you...more

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Sep 10, 2012 Hope Sherman rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a gift from my sister-in-law, I had never heard of the book but was glad I read it. Being a swimmer has obvioulsy affected the author's life on multiple levels, having a swimmer in the family I enjoyed relating on those issues. Her thoughts were sort of disjounted though - almost as if she wrote the book in small spurts ( or recalled the small spurts) of what she was thinking of when she was in the water...where your only company is your own thoughts. Unique outlook to say the least.

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Apr 14, 2013 Rebecca rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was one of those arty books that was decent, mainly because it was a quick read, but really had no point. I picked it up because I thought it was about girl who swam (which I miss a lot) but it really wasn't. I mean, part of it was, (but was it true or fiction?) but it was about after her time that she swam too, which is when it got more or less interesting depending on why you picked up the book. I liked it because it was quick, but the "plot" was meh. I am not into arty books.

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Oct 02, 2012 Kelsey rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm not a swimmer, and I've never been a swimmer, but for two years I had a roommate who was a swimmer. So I kind of get it. I think anyone who has ever been involved in competitive swimming (as a swimmer, a coach, a parent or sibling of a swimmer) will really "get" this book. It's beautifully and thoughtfully written. I've enjoyed other recent books about swimming (The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou, Sage Island by Samantha Warwick) and this one makes a nice (non-fiction) addition to that set.

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Jul 19, 2012 Kathy Wheeler rated it 4 of 5 stars

I loved this book -- it was a delightful surprise to me because I've read memoirs by swimmers before (Michael Phelps and Dara Torres) that just were workman-like as far as the writing went. Shapton, however, can really write -- her descriptions of places and events are truly evocative. I think I missed an important part of the book, however, because I read the ebook edition on a Nook Glowlight which doesn't have color and part of this book consists of paintings by Shapton and other illustrations...more

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Oct 10, 2012 Penguin Canada rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Is there anything more remarkable than reading a book on a subject you actually don’t relate to – and yet you question how it’s possible that you feel so deeply connected to it? Swimming Studies left me wondering how on earth I’m not a former competitive swimmer…and, how I could potentially live forever inside Leanne Shapton’s brilliant and creative mind. Yes, I loved the striking and simple cover, and yes the genius of the pool illustrations and the photos of her swimsuit collection had me at t...more

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