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Books in Brief Spring 2008

A look at some of the latest Buddhist titles, hot off the presses.

Sarah Todd

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Ever fancied a coffee klatsch with the Enlightened One? In Coffee with the Buddha (Duncan Baird Publishers, 2007, $9.95 cloth, 144 pp.), Tricycle contributing editor Joan Duncan Oliver offers readers a chance to chat with the Buddha about mindfulness, marriage, and reincarnation. This pocket-size Buddhist primer records a conversation between an interviewer and a fictionalized Buddha, whose answers are compiled from classical Buddhist texts. Together, they address issues both contemporary and eternal. "It seems a little strange for you to be doling out marriage and child-rearing advice when you walked out on your own wife and baby son," comments the skeptical interviewer—but the Buddha's wisdom proves able to withstand even the most Deborah Solomonesque questions.

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