Buddhism a Beginners Guide
Interested. Who is the author? There are several books with that or similar title. I enjoyed this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Gui.../dp/156455886X
I also like the ones on secular Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor, especially Buddhism Without Beliefs.
https://www.amazon.com/Buddhism-With...ithout+beliefs
"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere." --Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
I just finished reading Reading With Patrick by Michelle Kuo. I could not put it down. Non fiction memoir/story of a teacher, the Delta, the children, lost in the horror of the South yet surviving.
I just finished listening to another escape from North Korea memoir--In Order to Live, and I'm in the middle of Full Body Burden, also a memoir, but about the infamous Rocky Flats nuclear plant. I'm ready for something uplifting--like a nice bloody mystery.
For about four years in the 1980's I lived just few miles downwind of Rocky Flats. I always had the feeling that by then much of the radioactive emissions were under control by then and maybe the plant was winding down, but now I may have to check the book out to see. I'd not heard of it.
I am reading The Lost City of the Monkey God, which is a non-fiction adventure type book about modern archaeologists searching for a legendary lost civilization in the jungles of Honduras. It good.
"Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore" by Matthew Sullivan.
A somewhat literary suspense novel that takes place in Denver in the 1990s. The bookstore is actually The Tattered Cover, thinly disguised. Lots of landmarks for those who know Denver - El Chepultepec (dh played jazz there in the 80s) the gentrification of that area, building the stadium etc.
A little too gory for my taste, but convincing, likable characters, a fast paced plot, and lots of literary references made it hard to put down.
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