Vince is back with our Weekly Picks in time for your weekend reading.
This week's picks ✨
A Killing Fire by #FayeSnowden
A Tale For The Time Being by #RuthOzeki
Advent of Ascension by #RyanDebruyn
An Ace And A Pair by #BlakeBanner
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Just finished _All Over Creation_ by Ruth Ozeki. Not a new book, but feels relevant to these times (big agriculture / bioengineering). As always, I cared about her characters, with all their flaws and positive qualities. They feel like real people you could sit and have a conversation with. 10/10
#Buddhism #Zen #RuthOzeki
The University of Rhode Island: Spring Humanities Festival to feature novelist, filmmaker, Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki
"Author of ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’ will discuss ‘Innovations in Storytelling,’ in final event of Humanities lecture series."
https://www.uri.edu/news/2024/04/spring-humanities-festival-to-feature-novelist-filmmaker-zen-buddhist-priest-ruth-ozeki/
KINGSTON, R.I.—April 4, 2024—The University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities will host “A Conversation with Novelist Ruth Ozeki,” the final event in its “Innovations in Storytelling” series, Thursday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in the Higgins Welcome Center, 45 Upper College Road. The event, which is free and open to the public, is […]
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The survey has proved conclusively what has long been held theoretically to be true, that wants are almost insatiable; that one want satisfied makes way for another. The conclusion is that economically we have a boundless field before us; that there are new wants which will make way endlessly for newer wants, as fast as they are satisfied."
#RuthOzeki, The book of form and emptiness
Having given #blood today, I feel like the universe's positive engine was working in my favour...
A signed hardback copy of #RuthOzeki 's latest book (which is brilliant by the way) in a charity shop?
Yes. Please...!
#Buddhism #ZenBuddhism #RuthOzeki #Harvard
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Harvard Crimson:
Ruth Ozeki Discusses Buddhism’s Impact on Her Writing at Writers Speak Event | News
"Award-winning author Ruth Ozeki discussed her works of fiction, writing techniques, and the different elements of Buddhism that inspire her style on Thursday evening."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/4/3/ruth-ozeki-event/
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