Title: Three Tang Dynasty Poets
Author: Anon
Type: Poetry
Page Count/Review Word Count: 56
Rating: 4/5
This little collection has been one of my favourites from the Penguin Mini Black Classics box set that I’ve been working through. And it’s over a thousand years old, too! Beautiful poetry.
Title: Calm
Author: Tim Parks
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 106
Rating: 4.5/5
This Vintage Mini Modern is essentially a selection of excerpts from Teach Us to Sit Still, in which Parks recounts how he went from a lifelong skeptic to reasonably well accomplished at meditation through his experiences at several retreats.
I mostly liked that it was super honest and that I could relate to it. I also highlighted some great quotes, like, “The person who perceives deeply that life is empty, must be morally admirable otherwise he could never have arrived at the concentration required to grasp this.”
