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murielm99

(31,619 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 02:35 PM Jan 2014

Have any of you read [View all]

"A Tale for the Time Being," by Ruth Ozeki?

Given all the woo threads here, I think some of the vocal people here should sit down and read this book. The writer is a lady who is a Zen priest. She combines themes of Zen, quantum physics and contemporary Japanese issues. The narrators are, alternately, a 16 year old Japanese diarist an a Vancouver writer whose creativity is blocked. The writer finds the girl's diary along the coast of the island where she lives, and thinks it may be tsunami debris. She begins to read...

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