Book Review: Vinyl Cafe Notebook

It's no secret I have a crush on Stuart McLean. This man is just so incredibly eloquent! This is yet another book I picked up at Second Story in Canmore (I mentioned it here). I thought it would be further tales of Dave, Morley, Sam and Stephanie. I was wrong. Pleasantly so. It is a collection of Stuart McLean's ramblings about life. Much like myself, he loves to write about things that perhaps not many people will care about. He writes them to get them down. He writes about Canada. You feel connected to the land, people, and the history. Mr. McLean tells tales of unruly rug and chair battles, summer jobs, and unknown curling rinks in rural Manitoba. I felt like he was inside my head when he spoke of not being able to get rid of books (even going so far as to pick them up from the side of the road). I laughed at how he didn't understand why people used bay leaves, and his thoughts on chewing on them like tobacco. Really he just touched my heart with how he can look at life through the scope of a writer. Above all it made this girly want to JOURNAL!