On my bookshelf

Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper :: Peter Hill
Somehow this didn't quite live up to my expectations of solitary lighthouse keepers communing with the night. Hill wrote of his early hippie years and the six months he spent in 1973 at three remote lighthouses on Scotland's west coast.

Yes, there are interesting character studies of gruff, older Scottsmen like Stretch and the Professor and of long conversations during "Rembrandts" (aka night watch!), the how-tos of keeping a light lit and beautiful descriptions of the wild Scottish coast. But his observances digress too much. It reads like an elegy to his lost youth with meanderings into the Vietnam war, Watergate, BBC television, art school, the book he's writing, poetry excerpts and his excursions back to civilisation in between each 2 month stint. However I did enjoy his easy, conversational writing style. Read this if you have time, patience and not much else in your TBR pile.

Now reading: John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies.