Comments on: Summer Reading: Breakfast with Buddha ~Roland Merullo

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:53:31 +0000

Oh Christopher Rubel I am so happy you came by and shared your experience with this book – I too am reading it again right now, in between some pressure points in life…

Yes, I too wish I could write like this fellow or Barbara Kingslover – then I stop and think – good inspiration but the world already hears their voice and mine is just as wonderful and a good variation for the readers hearts and minds.

I look forward to reading you work…

By: Christopher Rubel

Christopher Rubel — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:53:00 +0000

My son, the high school English teacher, told me if I wanted to understand him I had to read “Breakfast with Buddha,” which I just finished. I’m basking in the memory of this book. Retired psychotherapist and Episcopal priest and a long haul truck driver, with my license plate reading for years, I-Thou, this book was a banquet and I’m kneeling at the feet of Roland Merullo.
Thank you, son, for urging me to read Breakfast…
“American Savior” is next. Being 77, Otto Ringling could be my son, and I think I knew Rinpoche a number of times over the years. Wish I could hug Roland Merullo, but this comment comes as close I can get for now. I’ll keep working on my fiction stuff, which is memoir-motivated fiction. You’ve encouraged and discouraged me. How anyone writes with such wit, flow, and depth all at the same time is inspiring! A compliment might be: “Undeniably appealing…Seductive.” Wish I’d said that. Blessings to all of you who start this book and can’t put it down. Love, Chris Rubel

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:45:38 +0000

Caroline,
I truly enjoyed this book and could not put it down – read it straight through.

Hope you enjoy it too…a bit different but I find that makes me think a bit too.

I should forewarn you at one restaurant his food descriptions were so good I started salivating.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:01:15 +0000

That sounds like are really good book. I am just starting a new book and can’t get into it…maybe I will give this one a try

Carolines last blog post..Time to pause…

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:02:51 +0000

Davina,
Yet reading does ebb and flow…I saw Liara’s book on her site too and thought that looked very good. I kind of go for novels during the summer after all the technical, work, non-fiction of the winter months. Happy Reading

By: Davina

Davina — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:09:05 +0000

Hi Patricia. I've been reading David Richo's "The Five Things We Cannot Change", but have stalled halfway through it. Work has distracted me. But I hope to get back to it in a few days. AND.... drumroll... I've just ordered Liara's book Self-Disclosure from the Dreambuilders blog. Looking forward to diving into that one. Davinas last blog post..Positively Breathing — Affirmation 3

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:38:28 +0000

Jannie,
Loved your comments and will add the two books you recommend – oops three to my list. Reading is so FUN – enjoy each page.

By: Jannie Funster

Jannie Funster — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:35:40 +0000

Dear Patricia,

I am so excited as I AM READING A BOOK, having denied myself such pleasure until May 11th.

It’s name is “Four Letters Of Love.” Niall Williams wrote it. Are you familiar with it? I read it when it first came out, 10 years ago or so. I wasn’t even a mom yet then.

Here is one line from it….” When I thought of it later, adding the fragments she told to the ones I imagined, I would see her childhood like some fine cloth spun of sealight and sand, frayed and ribboned with beauty and grief.”

And it goes on and on and with poetic prose like that. Set in the west of Ireland. And such a beautiful story too, but I can’t exactly remember how it ends — so that’s a good thing, a surprise to look forward to.

The one you recommend here does pique me very much. Sounds like the Jack Kerouac story but maybe much more enlightened. (And enlightening.) I do believe my summer reading list shall be whatever YOU recommend!

And of course, I want to read two of my blogging buddies’ recently released books, Kimmi Rich’s “The Unbreakable Child,” and Thomma Lyn Grindstaff’s, “Mirror Blue. ”

Hot dang, I think I’m heading to the bookstore NOW!!

I do not have a Kindle. But I can chop kindling, as you may know. And chop it with great aplomb, (I say most humbly.)

Jannie Funsters last blog post..Hmnnn…?

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:10:32 +0000

Dot,
You can feel free to add this to your winter reading list – I just visualize you surrounded by the wonder of books.

Vered,
I know how hard it is to find time, and there are just moments in life when it is not possible to do everything you want to do. Maybe start a book list in your documents folder. I am in the process of reading and giving away all the books I bought when my children were little and just could not squeeze in more than a book a month.

Mark,
I just bet you have a stack of books already on your list and in person! This one was lightly deep and I read it in one day – I am sure I will read it again.

Thank you for your comments.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:10:13 +0000

Sounds like a good and fun read! I will add this to my list. Yes, I have much to read over the summer. My problem is deciding what to read and what to leave on the shelf. There are so many great books that I want to read, alas there is not enough time. My stack keeps growing. Marks last blog post..How Narrow or Wide Is Your Lens?