Olympic games. [ cheers and applause ] which means in just two days people will go from knowing nothing about the olympics to saying, how the hell did he mess up a round off backhand spring . [ light laughter ] [ applause ] how do you know . I actually read that a north korean gymnast may be the first female gymnast ever to attempt an incredibly difficult move that involves a triple twisting vault. When asked if shes done it before she said, how do you think i escaped from north korea . [ laughter and applause ] you can tell this gymnast really is from north korea cause shes the only athlete to show up in rio and go, this is nice. [ laughter and applause ] and get this, i saw that the slogan for the 2016 rio olympics is live your passion. Good slogan. Its not the first one they came up with. They almost went with come for the competition, stay because youve been quarantined. [ laughter and applause ] and thats not as catchy. Steve not as catchy. Jimmy not as catchy as the other one. Ye
And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove ah yeah. Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon . . . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy hi, guys. Thank you. . . . . Come on thats what im talking about [ cheers and applause ] now its a good show tonight. Oh, yeah. Welcome, everybody, welcome to the tonight show this is it. [ cheers and applause ] welcome, everybody. Well, heres what everyone is talking about. Of course its the olympics. We are now only two days from which means in just two days people will go from knowing nothing about the olympics to saying, how the hell did he mess up a round off backhand spring . [ light laughter ] [ applause ] how do you know . I actually read that a north korean gymnast may be the first female gymnast ever to attempt an incredibly difficult move that involves a triple twisting vault. When asked if shes done it before she said, how do you think i escaped from north korea . [ laughter and applause ] you can tell this gymnast really is from north kor
Could be seen, more like a victim, and heres another story of how my life could be seen, which is a life of extraordinary possibilities and choice. And you basically say you want us all to think about how we choose the narrative of our own life. Because how we choose to see ourselves says everything about kind of how we do end up seeing ourselves. Am i right . Yes. If i were to ask you, you know, why are you here what is it that ended up making you do what you to today . You along with anyone else, if you were to answer that question, you could give me any one of three versions of that story. You could tell me how you were destined to be here. You could tell me how there was some fortunate event that led you to be here, some chance event. Or you could tell me the story of how you chose to be here. And i think that its probably accurate to say that any of those stories might be true, or at least not falsifiable. But i think theres Something Special when you tell the story of your life i
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
[inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2. Joining us now from chicago and the publishers convention is ron charles who is the editor of Washington Posts book world. Mr. Charles, what do you do for a living . Guest i assign most of the daily reviews in the Washington Post, and every wednesday i write my own review. Host of books . Guest of books, yes. Host how many books a week, seven books a week . Guest we review 20 books a week, and we get about 150 of them. Host about 20 books a week are reviewed in the post. Guest right. Host why isnt there a standalone book section . Guest there is online, but we decided about four years ago to spread the reviews out through the paper to try and see if we could find more readers. It seemed like a disaster at the time to me, but i have had to admit that we do, in fact, have more readers for book reviews now. We just put them in places that people read more. Book world, the old book world, the supplement, was much beloved but tended