[Poll Book Tally] The Mechanic's Tale by Steve Matchett3+ stars

[Karin]

This is a rather chatty book that is unlike the vast majority of auto racing memoirs, etc, that are out there. On the one hand, he does recount things from his time as a Formula One mechanic. On the other hand, he quotes from Alice in Wonderland quite often (and is very last sentence mentions Alice), he mentions books he likes (in a list of about 4, most are ones I don't care for such as Animal Farm), he likens something to Salvadore Dali artword, etc. He either keeps a journal or a diary, because he brings up some off the topic things like burning fish in a new apartment. There is a bit of humour, although I can't say I don't understand the Australian farmer who started chasing after the balloon that was sinking onto his land (why the farmer felt he had to take his gun, I am not sure) because if it is crop land--and Adelaide is in South Australia where they do grow crops, including grain--having balloons crash land on your crops costs money, etc, and if this happened often, it would really get that farmer's goat.

As you can see from that rambling review, this book does some of the same.