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PAGE 8 • GO! MAGAZINE THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2021 • THE BULLETIN national bestsellers Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 29, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Legacy. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s 2. Sooley. John Grisham. Doubleday 3. The Last Thing He Told Me. Laura Dave. Simon & Schuster 4. Project Hail Mary. Andy Weir. Ballantine 5. The Saboteurs. Cussler/Du Brul. Putnam 6. The Midnight Library. Matt Haig. Viking 7. While Justice Sleeps. Stacey Abrams. Doubleday Continued from previous page Falk, 24, who grew up in Sisters, where she ran track at Sisters High, describes it as a split between memoir and personal devel- opment guide targeted at readers 16 to 25, “using my life as the template, and just try- ing to help people see their greater purpose and meaning in life through this theme of adventure,” she said. Her own adventures as a young adult be- gan with a tragedy: Five days before Falk graduated from college, her cousin Gabe committed suicide. She was born in Califor- nia, where life with her parents was “chaotic 8. 21st Birthday. Patterson/Paetro. Little, Brown 9. That Summer. Jennifer Weiner. Atria 10. A Gambling Man. David Baldacci. Grand Central 8. Breaking the News. Alex Marlow. Threshold Editions 9. Zero Fail. Carol Leonnig. Random House 10. The Premonition. Michael Lewis. Norton HARDCOVER NONFICTION MASS MARKET 1. Killing the Mob. O’Reilly/Dugard. St. Martin’s 2. The Women of the Bible Speak. Shannon Bream. Broadside 3. The Anthropocene Reviewed (signed ed.). John Green. Dutton 4. What Happened to You? Perry/Winfrey. Flatiron/Oprah 5. The Hill We Climb. Amanda Gorman. Viking 6. Greenlights. Matthew McConaughey. Crown 7. A Course Called America. Tom Coyne. Avid Reader 1. Shadow Storm. Christine Feehan. Berkley 2. Daddy’s Girls. Danielle Steel. Dell 3. The Sentinel. Child/Child. Dell 4. Red River Vengeance. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle 5. Savage Sunday. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle 6. Wilderness Defender. Maggie K. Black. Love Inspired Suspense 7. Cajun Justice. Patterson/Axum. Grand Central 8. Cold Case Trail. Sharee Stover. Love Inspired Suspense and troubled,” she said. “I ended up growing up the rest of my life with my aunt and un- cle, who became my immediate family.” Gabe was like a brother to her, and his suicide hit her hard. “That was a very profound experience in my life,” Falk said. “With that experience came a lot of inspiration and a lot of writing, also. I didn’t really get into the whole writing scene until that occurrence. … That really altered my perception of going into the fu- ture, and what I saw my life as.” Falk sold her possessions and moved to Europe for a few years, where she taught En- glish in Valencia, Spain and began writing. “I really got into journaling and writing. It really began with letters I’d write to Gabriel,” she said. “And then along came this idea of travel blogging and writing (about) my ex- periences.” The commute to her teaching gig left Falk plenty of time for contemplation, Falk said. That was when she began to consider writ- ing a book “that helped fellow young people who are suffering from mental health prob- lems, or just being able to speak up about my own experiences dealing with grief from suicide and many other traumas that I had to endure,” she said. The book would be her version of helping people in crisis, a mission amplified by other people’s suicides as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was so difficult to see, and I just needed to do something with my voice … and just be- ing able to help people see life as a grand ad- venture rather than a task that they have to get up and do every day,” Falk said. Falk began writing the first of many drafts in the fall of 2019 in Spain. At the outset of the pandemic, she headed to the United Kingdom to stay with her stepfather, Mark Speed. “He’s also an author, and I got a lot of guidance in that time, actually,” she said. “I got a lot of growth and insight from that ex- perience, and motivation to keep going with the book.” The book is divided into 12 concepts, in- cluding defining adventure, overcoming ob- stacles and the science behind our percep- tion of time. “In certain moments of life, you feel like time goes faster, and sometimes it feels slower,” she explained. That chapter explores maximizing one’s perception of time in life. On that note, Falk had several suggestions for maximizing your kickass summer, in- cluding the following: Create an adventure map: “Find adven- ture spots you want to go to and have a map ready, and mark them.” Reenact favorite game show or movie: “I love ‘The Amazing Race’ a lot, and so it would be fun to reenact something of that 9. Undercover Duke. Sabrina Jeffries. Zebra 10. The Midwife Murders. James Patterson. Grand Central TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam 2. The Silent Patient. Alex Michaelides. Celadon 3. People We Meet on Vacation. Emily Henry. Berkley 4. The Book of Lost Names. Kristin Harmel. Gallery 5. The Summer House. James Patterson. Grand Central 6. The Giver of Stars. Jojo Moyes. Penguin Books 7. The Woman with the Blue Star. Pam Jenoff. Park Row 8. The Stepsisters. Susan Mallery. Mira 9. A Court of Thorns and Roses. Sarah J. Maas. Bloomsbury 10. Out of the Cave. Chris Hodges. Thomas Nelson sort and create challenges. My family loves ‘Red Dawn,’ and we’ve done a ‘Red Dawn’ survival night thing where you only get $5 and you have to get whatever survival equip- ment you can all contribute (to) with the $5 you have and try to survive the night.” Explore an unfamiliar road: “See where it takes you. I’ve found some really random things, like an abandoned watchtower, from that. There are some interesting places you can find out in the middle of nowhere.” Find or make a rope swing: “We had a lot of fun with that growing up. My broth- ers and I would go and make random rope swings. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn’t. That’s kind of the fun of it.” Watch the sun rise and set: “Watch as many sunrises and sunsets as you can from your favorite viewpoint.” Hit a swimming hole: “There are a lot of cliff jumping spots around the Bend area. (Stick to) established places like Steelhead Falls.” Go spelunking: “It’s fun if it’s a hot night and you want to go explore a new cave, there are a number of caves around the area.” Try plein air painting: “To do something creative, you could do something like paint in the park, or write poetry on top of a mountain.” Enter a race: “Sign up for a race or a com- petition, just do that spontaneously and train for it.” See the stars: “Go stargazing in your ham- mock or on top of your car somewhere.” Make it a Smith Rock afternoon: “It’s the most magical place at sunset. A lot of times my family and I will go out and climb Smith, and on the way back we get to wit- ness the really beautiful sunset. … It’s the perfect time of day to go.” Play a board game in the park: “I have a travel backgammon set, so … I’ve taught all these different people from around the world how to play backgammon in different places, like the beach in Portugal or a moun- tain villa in Switzerland. … It’s an easy game to learn quickly, and also just a fun strategic game to do.” David Jasper: 541-383-0349, djasper@bendbulletin.com