Susan!'s review
Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams
by Jennifer Sey
Susan!'s review
Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams by Jennifer Sey
Susan!'s review
rating:
bookshelves:
2008read,
memoir
recommended for: fans of memoir, gymnastics, family relationships
Most gymnasts and gym fans seem to hate this book because it just sheds even more negative light on the sport. And I see where they're coming from but it's really not that bad on the whole. She does admit at the end that she has a love/hate relationship with gymnastics, and that's completely relatable and honest.
People have also accused the book of being "full of lies" and I don't know how true that is, but she insists this is how she perceived her experience and I believe her. The relationship with her family was very well portrayed in my opinion, and you know publisher pushed for a certain angle of the story.
My main issue is that Sey writes like most smart people who can't write, write. Which is annoying because her language is so heavy and big words and bad analogies are everywhere. How can one "euphemistically" cross their fingers? Why would you end a story (about losing weight in fat but regaining it in muscle after an injury) by concluding: "...more
People have also accused the book of being "full of lies" and I don't know how true that is, but she insists this is how she perceived her experience and I believe her. The relationship with her family was very well portrayed in my opinion, and you know publisher pushed for a certain angle of the story.
My main issue is that Sey writes like most smart people who can't write, write. Which is annoying because her language is so heavy and big words and bad analogies are everywhere. How can one "euphemistically" cross their fingers? Why would you end a story (about losing weight in fat but regaining it in muscle after an injury) by concluding: "...more
