My January Reading Recap blog post includes my book reviews for the month, books I added to my massive TBR, and the bookish events I went to. You can read the full recap at https://abookandadog.com/campaigns/view-campaign/H9X5XMbCyHhPukrz6VaysatMeNC6Iyi...
pickContinuing my literary journey of Neil Peart‘s writing with his third book, Traveling Music. It picks up right where he left off in Ghost Rider. Neil shares his experiences driving to Big Bend, talks about the music he was listening to, and opens up about the stories that came to mind during his trip. 🚗
Full review at abookandadog.com/blog/traveling-music
pickI‘m a latecomer to the writings of Neil Peart. Ghost Rider is the book I was most looking forward to reading. His 19-year-old daughter died in a car accident in 1997. Ten months later, his wife died of cancer. I remember thinking, ‘How does someone survive that magnitude of loss?!‘ Well, Neil tells readers exactly how he survived in Ghost Rider. I love everything about this book.
Full review at https://abookandadog.com/blog/ghost-rider
pickThanks to an incredible Audible sale, I recently purchased all of Neil Peart‘s nonfiction books. In this one, Neil joined a group through African villages for one month on his bicycle. The ride itself was physically and mentally challenging, and Neil shares the struggles of bike repairs, long rides up steep hills and treacherous terrain, and searches for food and drink.
Full review at https://abookandadog.com
"You probably know me as Geddy Lee, but my birth name was Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, after my maternal grandfather, who was murdered in the Holocaust."
This one should be interesting.
#Rush
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
pickI love bike riding, and I like Rush, but I didn‘t know much about the band members. I mostly liked this book. We covered poverty in Africa in school, and I was surprised how available food was to some of them. I didn‘t realize that there were families where the women did both the providing and the care taking, and was sad. Peart has a sense of humor and emotional intelligence, for the most part. I might read another of his books in the long term.
so-soI didn‘t really enjoy this book. I actually almost quit reading it and the only reason I didn‘t was because I hate not finishing a book. It got interesting for me very late into the book (around page 150). After finishing the book I didn‘t feel like I gained anything but questions about the setting. Rating it So-So because I may not have liked it because of the genre or possibly even the writing style.
