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|title=My Age of Anxiety
|author=Scott Stossel
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Scott Stossel is anxious. There are no two ways about it. He has been anxious for as long as he can remember, with dark recollections of his turbulent childhood, much of which seems to have been spent nervously gazing out of the window wondering whether his parents were coming home or if they had died in a terrible accident. Then of course, there was the sister who was very possibly an 'adult midget who had been trained to play the part of a five-year-old girl' helping her colleagues (his parents) perform experiments on him before abandoning him. Clearly Stossel’s anxiety has been fuelled by a rather active imagination over the years.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019143</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Audrey Magee
... it's Johnny Jefferson, global rock star.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118789</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Buddhaland Brooklyn
|author=Richard C Morais
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Seido Oda has lived all of his life in the shadow of the Head Temple of the Clearwater Sect of Mahayana Buddhism. His family home was an inn which catered to the pilgrims who flocked to the temple, and his mother a devout member of the sect. He seemed marked for the priesthood from an early age, and at age 11 was handed over to the guardianship of the priests to begin his apprenticeship. Seido's young life is blighted by tragedy, and a promise he could not keep, and although a devout follower of the Buddha, he seemed unable to achieve true peace, even in the beautiful tranquil surroundings of Mount Nagata. He was unable to relate to other humans and sought solace in poetry, art, 'the prayers' of the river and the beauty of his rural home. At age 42, he has spent almost all of his life in or near the temple, and expects to spend the remainder of it there when a very unwelcome appointment to America is offered to him. Seido accepts with a heavy heart, but only on the agreement that it must be temporary.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883105</amazonuk>
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