Mind the Rabbit Trails… Welcome to Mikey’s Library, where some shelves hold classics. Others hide forgotten gems. Some books change the way we look at the world, while others simply make a rainy afternoon a little more enjoyable.
Mikey’s Library isn’t sponsored, and no money changes hands for the books you’ll find here. They’re simply titles Mikey has read and enjoyed enough to recommend to others.
This is a growing library of books that have informed, inspired, entertained, or simply earned a permanent place on Mikey’s shelf. Whether you’re looking for an old favorite or your next unexpected discovery, you’re welcome to wander.
Or if you’re looking for something else to read, visit Mikey’s latest observations.
Currently on the Shelf
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart
A remarkable memoir of grief, healing, motorcycles, and the long road back. Following is an excerpt from the publisher’s description of this marvelous book:
Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again—Ghost Rider is a brilliantly written and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush.
There would be no peace for me, no life for me, until I learned to forgive life for what it had done to me, forgive others for still being alive, and eventually, forgive myself for being alive.
—Neil Peart
The shelf is never finished.
Check back from time to time. Mikey is always reading something.