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Book Review: The Boys In The Boat

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This quarter, I have read a book named The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. This book is talked about the life of Joe Rantz and the 1936 Olympic eight- oar crew from the University of Washington. More than that, it’s also talked about their boat, the boat helped them to win the competitive. As more I read, I found that book has taught me so much and it gave me a lot of feeling. First, it’s about Joe Rantz, he had to live in a poor village, had a poor life, but Jose was still very strong. He went to school, and then went to work, solved all the life problems by himself. That made me admire Jose so much. The second is all the freshmans and the coach. All of them are really want to win the competition, so they were trained
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