Music lovers, this one’s for you! My dear friend Mark Lefebvre is back, this time to discuss a book written by the drummer of his favorite band, Rush. Neil Peart wrote “Traveling Music” as a meditation on his life, traveling with a rock and roll band, experiencing huge professional wins and terrible personal loss, and all of the music that influenced his life. Mark is a classic Rush fanboy, and it was a delight to listen to his excitement about this book, even when we disagreed about it. Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram Guest: Mark Lefebvre Website/Instagram/YouTube/TikTok/Twitter/Stark Reflections Podcast Want to be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast? Go here! Discussed in this episode: Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times by Neil Peart Mark’s previous appearance on the Best Book Ever Podcast Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Rush Shock Rock 2 edited by Jeff Gelb The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa by Neil Peart Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart Clockwork Angels by Neil Peart and Kevin J. Anderson Assembling California by John McPhee Sinatra Live in Paris Nina Simone at Town Hall David Suzuki Naïda by Scott Overton The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King Masquerade: The Complete Series by Valerie Francis Discussed in our Patreon Excerpt: Terminal House by Sean Costello Terry Fallis Linwood Barclay Louise Penny Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (I never voluntarily pick up sci-fi, but after hearing Mark’s description of this book, I immediately grabbed a copy of this one at my library!) The Hope Sze Medical Mystery Series by Melissa Yi (an 8-book series that begins with Code Blues: When Medicine Becomes Murder) Lightning by Dean Koontz (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you’re shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bestbookeverpodcast.substack.com

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