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I used to have more of an interest in hearing about spiritual and religious journeys than I do now. Maybe it‘s got something to do with the United States becoming a theocracy…
This memoir has a little humor. The author has a moment when he thinks about death, and is inappropriately asked about his spiritual state; he then goes in search of something but not knowing what, and meets many interesting people on different paths along the way. ⬇️

I actually have enjoyed this collection better than Oliver.

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#CharacterCharm

Having read the Majnun/Qais version earlier this year, I have now moved on to the Nizami version of Layla and Majnun. I am not 100% sold on the fake twee style of the French translation I am reading, but am making good progress nonetheless.
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painting of Majnun in the wilderness found on Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Good parallel account of the meeting of Rumi with Shams, a Sufi, which made him become a poet, and a modern day woman trying to make sense of her loveless marriage, who also meets a modern Sufi. I learned about Sufism and can see its attraction and the need for love, but I am not as enthralled with it as others might be. Still it is good. I began following Shafak.

Dubbo‘s book swap delivered the goods while I was home for the holidays!

Starting another one by Shafak that my Library has. About the poet Rumi.

Ella‘s been a SAHM most of her married life, but now the kids are old so she has gotten a job as a reader for a literary agent. The first script is Sweet Blasphemy. A book about Rumi and his spiritual companion Shams of Tabriz. Shams is a traveling dervish, and he has 40 rules for life and love, and he follows a philosophy on unity of people and religion. Not everyone agrees with this

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