Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road.

I'm currently reading Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart. Neil is the drummer and lyricist for the Canadian band Rush, and is respected for both his playing and his writing skills.

In this book, he tells how he survived the death of his only daughter in a traffic accident, and then the death of his wife to cancer, all in a single year. It is a very personal tale of how he spent months riding a motorcycle from Alaska to Belize, trying to find a reason to continue on.

I have a book discussion group at the library where I work, and seriously considered making this a reading selection- the people in the group are quite open to non-fiction, and are very sharp readers. But the book goes on a bit long- 460 pages- and could have been shorter, though I find it personally interesting to read the thoughts of a man I've respected for years as a lyricist.

One of those 'makes you pause to think about life' books.