Monday 04.04.2011

Working all day but with enough time between shifts to finish the book. Ah yes. The book. Don`t normally have trouble knowing which people to recommend which book to but, despite the fact it has had me engrossed from start to finish not sure what other people`s response might be.
It`s called Ghost Rider and is by Neil Peart, world renowned drummer (amongst other things) with the band Rush.
And despite the fact I`m into my music I confess I knew nothing about him.
So - if you were going to give it `tags`, you could look for it under:
grief and loss
motorbikes
being on the road
journeys
Canada
America
Mexico
reading and writing
books
birdwatching
nature
food
smoking and drinking

A musician of my acquaintance said "Is it as cheesy as his lyrics?" Well, yes. In places. But then I like cheese - the stronger the better sometimes.
It`s a hefty 400 pages: my badly bound paperback copy broke apart.
And it`s a bit geeky in places - he`s very meticulous about recording mileage, meals eaten, atmospheric temperature.
And it`s self-centred because it`s about the emotional journey he`s on as well as the actual one.
Funny, poignant and with a neat turn of American phrasing I want to copy.....sayin`? (As in "Do you see what I`m saying?")

I loved it. It`s the kind of book that I want to copy bits out of to pin on the wall. (I may well quote from it in future posts). I want to follow up a lot of his book references. I want to read it again with a map at my side to see exactly where he travelled.

In short I may have to buy it: I don`t feel the need to own many books these days but this may have to be in the select collection I keep by the bed.