Bøger af Ron James

The first three books in The Yesterday Shoppe series presented nine fictional stories or individuals whose lives were wonderfully affected by an item from one of The Shoppes. With a bit or poetic license, each of the stories is based on real life experiences of friends, family or close associates. In this book, I have decided to present a wide variety of stories that come, in various forms, from the community in which I have lived for the past 25 years...the Carson Valley. There are those who believe that I often live in a "fantasy world" in which inanimate objects can sometimes touch people's lives in a wonderful way. To those, I would simply say "we see what we want to see, we hear what we want to hear, and we believe what we want to believe." I believe that life is a wonderful gift, and that every day we are given a choice of immersing ourselves in joy or sorrow, love or anger, happiness or despair, curiosity or fear, overcast skies or rainbows. Every minute, I choose to fill my life with...joy, love, happiness, curiosity and rainbows!

NATIONAL BESTSELLERCanada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut-and he's just as richly, gloriously funny on the page as on stage.His legion of fans-the ones who ensure his every show the length and breadth of Canada is sold out-recognize Ron James as one of the great stand-ups of his generation. His seemingly improvisational flights of fancy-no two shows are ever the same-are crammed with inventive phrase-making, feature a voluminous vocabulary, and put every word into the service of uproarious comedy. He sounds like a man born to write a great book-and now at last he has. But this is a book he has been writing for most of his life, in his head, in his car, while driving from gig to gig.In All Over the Map, Ron has brilliantly captured the voice that has enthralled millions on stage and screen. He also lets up a little on the usually relentless laughs (though there are still plenty of those) to reveal a new dimension to his beloved showbiz character. His hilarious reminiscences of growing up in Nova Scotia and his early struggles as an aspiring comic, his reveries on such topics as family, country, celebrity and lessons learned from myriad chance encounters will deepen our appreciation for this great comic and win him many new fans in his new role as author.