#boarding

The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep. Doust’s recognisably Australian contribution to the genre draws on his own experiences in a West Australian boarding school in this clever, polished, detail-rich debut novel. From the opening pages, the reader is wholly transported into the head of Jack Muir, a sensitive, sharp-eyed boy from small-town WA who is constantly measured (unfavourably) against his goldenboy brother. The distinctive, masterfully inhabited adolescent narrator recalls the narrator in darkly funny coming-of-age memoir Hoi Polloi (Craig Sherborne)—as does the juxtaposition of stark naivety and carefully mined knowingness.’ — Bookseller+Publisher ↗

— Jon Doust

#boy-on-a-wire #jon-doust #age

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime. ↗

— Shaun White

#forget #i #snowboarding #totally

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #skateboarding #think #training

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there. ↗

— Shaun White

#anybody #board #consistency #flick #flying

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#boarding #brother #doing #family #fun

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things. ↗

— Shaun White

#also #awareness #balance #gets #great

I've reached my goal with snowboarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #reached #snowboarding

Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#crazy #get #go #got #home

The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often. ↗

— Shaun White

#because #boarding #i #i do #often

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. ↗

— Shaun White

#before #beginning #closer #dad #even