![]() Other reviews dubbed this book "hilarious" but I thought the author tried way too hard to be funny. Sean and Jamie's "adventure" was so boring to read about, and I didn't have much patience for Sean's tangents which even he stated were only to increase his word count. Good thing this memoir was short or I wouldn't have made it to the end. Unemployed during the pandemic, married couple Sean and Jamie embark on a 350-mile long bike ride. The review herein is completely my own and contains my honest thoughts and opinions. I received a physical book from Zondervan Books through Bookish First. You Are My Sunshine is a highly entertaining, hilariously funny true story that will have you in stitches. ![]() All jokes aside, there are some poignant moments in the novel and Dietrich manages to capture those moments like a Polaroid camera. I could not put the novel down.īut, the novel is not all fun and games. Dietrich makes the normally mundane activities and conversations laugh out loud funny. Told in first person, author Sean Dietrich describes real life experiences in a very entertaining way. Why did they do it? Because Jamie wanted to do something Big and because Sean promised - sometime ago… It’s a challenging trail that offers more than 330 miles of biking and hiking. You Are My Sunshine is the true story of Sean and his wife Jamie’s grueling bike ride through The Great Allegheny Passage and the C&O Canal Towpath trail. And so began my incessant chuckling, snickering, and gigling as I continued my reading adventure. “What’s so funny?” my husband asks as I was reading You Are My Sunshine. A feel-good read you won't be able to put down, You Are My Sunshine dares you to hope for an adventure of your own. As you laugh out loud through every hard-won mile and lose yourself in his signature poignancy, you'll experience a great adventure that, in the end, will remind you of what's most important in life, the value of keeping your promises, and the importance of connection in your most treasured relationships. In this true-life tale, master storyteller Sean Dietrich-also known as the beloved columnist and creator of the blog and podcast "Sean of the South"-shares their hilarious, touching, and sometimes terrifying story of the long bike ride to conquer The Great Allegheny Passage and the C&O Canal Towpath trail. For love and the promise of biscuits along the way, Sean-who was never an athlete of any kind-undertook the bike ride of a lifetime and lived to talk about it. She dared to hope for and plan for a great big adventure, and she made him promise to do it with her. But Sean Dietrich's wife, Jamie, wouldn't let it. It was only a few years after the starry-eyed young couple got married when scary news threatened to take the wind out of their sails. A laugh-out-loud funny true story of a loving relationship, a grand adventure, and a promise kept.
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