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Tim Parks – Calm | Review

December 26, 2018 danecobain

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.”

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Eva Eglaia-Kristsone and Becca Parkinson – The Book of Riga | Review

April 14, 2018 danecobain

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Becca Parkinson Book City Collections Cross-Section Different Diverse Eva Eglaia-Kristsone Fiction Latvian Locations Nature Review Selection Short Story Stories Styles The Book of Riga Visited

Title: The Book of Riga

Author: Eva Eglaia-Kristsone and Becca Parkinson

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 128

Rating: 4*/5

Eva Eglaia-Kristsone and Becca Parkinson – The Book of Riga

It’s always difficult to rate short story collections because by their very nature, there are some stories that you like and some that you don’t. What I did like, though, is how each of these stories is very much a product of the city, and so it was cool because I could read about locations that I’ve visited.

The selection here is also pretty diverse and so we get a nice range of different styles. This is my fourth or fifth Latvian book by now, and I think it’s the best for getting just a good cross-section of what’s going on. Enjoy!