For some bizarre reason I have been spending most nights for the past week awake and in big pain. So I get up and neck paracetamol and catch up on film DVDs. My GP thought that I needed to see a dentist -which is crap, but he did suggest piriton that seems to do the trick (well it did last night) As part of the many things that have been suggested to me is to stop screen time and start reading books. I've bought a Kobo device and I already had an account with them and so all of my books have magically appeared on the device - which is great! I'm in a Laurie Lee phase at he moment and still have plenty to read. But the point of this post: anyone got any book suggestions to do with biking and Ducatis (preferably) apart from "Zen And The Art Of...."? This device is supposed to adapt to ambient light and is especially for bedtime reading - like black text on a white background as is the same in a paper book.
Not ignoring your ask for bike books (for which I have no suggestions). However, I strongly recommend 'A Rose For Winter'; LL's revisit to 'As I Walked...'
Same happens with me Perry I wake through the night with pain The worst thing is picking up the phone like now for me. Off down Stairs to get paracetamol and a cup of tea and a biscuit and that sends me back to sleep
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole By far the funniest book I’ve ever read - some of the dialogue is laugh out loud in public hilarious. It’s not only funny, but also really well plotted and cleverly written as about half a dozen sub-plots involving different people who unknown to each other are linked in some way. In fact it was so good that the first time I read it I immediately started it again and I’ve read it maybe another 10 times in the past 15 years. I even named my dog “Iggy” after the main character Ignatius J Reilly, although tbh unlike the hound, he isn’t a very nice guy. According to Amazon it’s Billy Connelly’s favourite book and he has this to say “One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World': “My favourite book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact” and “I've read it so many times and I still go back to it today.” https://thecritic.co.uk/a-confederacy-of-dunces-forty-years-on-a-book-that-can-change-your-life/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confederacy-Dunces-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0141182865
It's all very odd. I was told to keep away from caffeine and I have some non-caffeine coffee beans on order. When I next go shopping, I'm gonna look for caffeine free tea. Mind you, I've no idea if it is caffeine! Taking a Piriton tab seems to be working for me. And started reading before sleep.
I make it milky rather than my usual builders tea I’m not sure but I think there is something in warm milk and tea that makes you sleepy
Bought it! The trouble with Kobo, new PayPal account, and this forum,is it is so darned easy to spend money! But Amazon don't get a look in - so all good!!!
Could well be. I will experiment but as I tended to be tea in the morning and coffee in the afternoon with my coffee very, very milky, I dunno. Mind you as a weight loss thing, I was going for black tea and coffee, Maybe that wasn't helping me sleep!
It could be getting up and making it keep lights to a minimum grab a digestive or rich tea (no chocolate) go back to bed and drink eat biscuit in the dark or minimum light Take paracetamol if needed while making your cuppa I drink Yorkshire tea and filtered semi skimmed milk
I hope you like it after I gave it such an enthusiastic write up. Let me/us know how you get on. Another very good spit-your-tea out funny book is Kill Your Friends by John Niven. Imagine a darkly and extremely offensively comic version of American Psycho where the main character is an A&R man in a British record company during the 90s, and he’s a racist, sexist, in fact you-name-it-ist misanthrope sociopath sex and drug addict, but also very very funny indeed. There was a film made of it a few years ago starring Nicholas Holt, but while it’s pretty good, it’s not a patch on the novel which is brilliant, so I wouldn’t recommend you watch it in lieu of reading the book. https://www.waterstones.com/book/kill-your-friends/john-niven/9780099592099
I find that reading my iPad at night keeps me awake but reading a proper book helps me to get to sleep. I’m currently reading this
I've read that! Enjoyed it. Never realised that Johnson had a "tough time" all the way up to becoming an MP.
Drat! Piriton has stopped doing it's job. More wondering at 3am necking paracetamol AND piriton - not that it does any good! Spent much of the night looking at the full moon!!!
Highly recommend this biking book, great writing. Dan Walsh - These are the Days that must happen to you: "Riding a bike removes the need for clutter, toys, rubbish that other men have to take on holiday. If I want adrenaline, I'll rush a giddy overtake, not rent a jet ski." The world through the eyes of Dan Walsh is never less than Technicolor, and always uninhibited, rebellious and on the edge. Not since the days of Jupiter's Travels has one man embarked on such an angry, narcotic-fuelled bike trek around the world. "For me, Chile will always be South America's supermodel sister - very beautiful but too long, too skinny, and too expensive to ride, and despite the groovy exterior, unpleasantly right-wing underneath." Amazon Link, but you can probably find it elsewhere. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0031RDVEG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
