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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ag éisteacht go leabhair léamh ag údair

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Le déanaí, tá mé ag éisteacht a roinnt leabhair nuair ag tiomaint go obair agus ar ais. Cuirim fáilte roimh seans a foghlaim faoi cinn éags...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Geoff Dyer's "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition": Book Review

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Dyer likes the odds-and-ends he's gathered from '89-'10. Doughnuts, desert, lots of sex and drugs, photographers, jazz, book and...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Peter Englund's "The Beauty and the Sorrow": Book Review

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This “intimate history of the First World War” blends twenty accounts by those who fought, and those who nursed, watched, waited, and were i...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Michel Houellebecq's "The Map and the Territory": Book Review

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Michel, appearing in his own fifth novel, has his artist-protagonist Jed Martin's father say of their creator: " He's a good au...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Johnny Fincioen's "India Charming Chaos": Book Review

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For five weeks, this Flemish couple, now living in California, visited Northern India. Dozens of temples filled their itinerary, and as wit...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Lodro Rinzler's "The Buddha Walks into a Bar": Book Review

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This follows the Shambhala practices introduced by Chogyam Trungpa to America to the counterculture; Rinzler updates them for today's...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Noah Levine's "Against the Stream": Book Review

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This "Buddhist manual for spiritual revolutionaries" may appeal to the tattooed and shaved crowd that the author and cover beckon....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Noah Levine's "Dharma Punx": Book Review

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A dropout at fifteen, and by nearly thirty, a grown-up, Noah Levine shares his troubled journey. The son of a prominent American Buddhist te...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ag féachaint do aon 'anglais tae'

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Tá mé ag féachaint tae níos mó anois. Nílim ábalta fáil cinealáchaí éagsulaí dó ina margadh i gCalifoirnea Theas anseo. Ina theannta sin, s...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Jack Kornfield's "Bringing Home the Dharma": Book Review

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Over twenty-five years of reflections merge into this thoughtful anthology. Jack Kornfield's one of America's pioneers when it comes...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Moh Hardin's "A Little Book of Love": Review

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After forty years, Moh Hardin distills his “practical advice on bringing happiness to ourselves and our world” into a few pages. As often wi...
Monday, January 9, 2012

"Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree": Book Review

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What's this first-ever anthology of "Buddhist fiction" offer? Editor Kate Wheeler comments how according to dharma, everythi...
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Anne Donovan's "Buddha Da: A Novel": Review

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Three tellers narrate, in dialect (which flows fluidly even for foreigners after a few moments), what happens in their Glaswegian family aft...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Keith Kachtick's "Hungry Ghost: A Novel": Review

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A dissolute photographer, well-meaning but wayward, almost forty, falls for a Catholic convert thirteen years younger who's determined...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Eric Weiner's "Man Seeks God": Book Review

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"Confusionist,” reasons agnostic fellow traveler Eric Weiner, defines his "spiritual-but-not-religious" outlook. As a "g...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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