Summer Books #4
August 15, 2008
The 4th and last in the Summer Books Series is none other than Dave Bidini’s “Tropic of Hockey”
Dave Bidini is a musician with the band the Rheostatics and he also plays hockey in an Ontario league with other musicians like Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo fame. In 1999 Bidini travelled the globe to search for hockey in unlikely places.
The book has a special place in my heart because part of his adventures took him to China where he played in some of the same rinks we have played in. He also knows a few of the hockey guys from Beijing that we have met in our travels.
I have read the book before (about 5 years ago) but have forgotten most of it so it is like reading it for the first time.
Not sure if I will get this one done before we leave next Wednesday (especially if Alice has her say) but I will give it a go. Might be some nice reading for the plane … of course with a 2 and 4 year old and a broken leg I think reading on the plane is a pipe dream.
