A place without books ...

A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Horace Mann.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Caught up on some reading …

I still have a pile of fiction to get through, which is nothing new. I always have a pile of fiction waiting to be read.

Recently, I’ve switched to factual books for both research and personal enlightenment:

Japan Through the Looking Glass, by Alan MacFarlane: 

China by Bike: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast, by Roger Grigsby:

Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering, by Ajahn Chah:

Solo Training, by Loren W. Christensen: