The Easy Part: A 20-Month Journey from Cancer Diagnosis to Marathon Finish Line

by Matt Brown

"The Easy Part: A 20-month journey from cancer diagnosis to marathon finish line" is the first book by veteran sports writer, editor and research analyst Matt Brown. It is the autobiographical true story of how Brown, a non-athlete, overcame Hodgkin's Lymphoma and made good on his promise to complete the Chicago Marathon the following year, doing his part to help others in the fight against cancer along the way. Told in a breezy conversational style, "The Easy Part" is inspiring, moving, and sprinkled with wry observations to refresh you like a well-placed aid station along a marathon course.

All proceeds generated by this book will be donated to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 5, 2011

About the author

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Matt Brown (2 spaces): Has the podcast The Matt Brown Show, experiments with ChatGPT
Matt Brown (3 spaces): GRs author of sci/fi, horror, & children’s books,
has the Compton Valance series
Matt Brown (4 spaces): German westerns
Matt Brown (5 spaces): tiny houses
Matt Brown (6 spaces): GRs author of Christian books
Matt Brown (14 spaces): GRs author of the Everything You Know About ___ Is Wrong books

Reviews

[Aneel Trivedi]

I read the entire book in one sitting. I kept telling my wife, "I can't tell if it's really this good, or if I just love it so much because it's Matt".

I think I've decided it's really this good. Matt was able to convey his attitude during his sickness perfectly - I'm sure there were down times, but I never saw or heard anything from him but simple and pure resolve to defeat cancer.

Matt's story is funny, inspirational, and really just plain encouraging. I've always heard that a patient's attitude can influence outcome, and I think it's possible that Matt just plain willed the cancer out of his body.

This should be required reading for anyone diagnosed with cancer. I'm proud to know him.