Been quite a while since i read this, but do remember it being a very interesting read on the history of Zen. It tells Zen’s full story through fascinating tales of its most influential masters of its various historical schools, all the way from its roots in India and into modern Japan.
If more people read about the history of the world’s religions instead of fighting over them the world would be a much nicer place.
Ooooh, and now for a nice bit of Grimdark. 
I remember it being a good book but i never got around to writing a review when i read it, so, for now at least, it is assigned to “The Boneyard”.
I’ve lost count of the amount of times i’ve read this book, and i’m sure i’ll read it countless times more. Earthsea is probably the greatest fantasy series ever written. I’ve yet to find better.
Here’s an article in The Guardian… “David Mitchell on Earthsea – a rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin”.
Available in the collection The Books of Earthsea
I used to have a very minimalist lifestyle. Used to. Maybe one day i’ll go back to that and this book waits in the pile for that day.
Another temporal sci-fi tale, which, like Temporal Contingency, Joseph does incredibly well — he just seems to have a way of avoiding the mind fucks that most sci-fi writers get you into with this sub-genre.
This short was originally available in the Orphans in the Black Anthology, then made available to Joseph’s Patreon subscribers and now also in the collection Paradoxes and Dragons.
Yeah, mine need some hacking. 
It sounded interesting so got added to the pile.
Yes, running 100 miles in 24 hours is on my bucket list.