Holiday Reading List: Breakfast with Buddha
The only good thing about unplanned downtime is that it
allows one to get caught up on their reading. My pick? Breakfast with Buddha,
by Roland Merullo. Not to be confused as a book from the Dating Buddha Series,
this is a fictional story. (Did you hear that Oprah, FIC-TION-AL? Even though it reads as a memoir you can not feature it as such only to claim later
on that you were duped. Besides you can only use that excuse twice, before
people begin to suspect that you don’t do any fact checking of your own.) The
story features a middle-aged, Middle-American man of “good protestant stock” who is tricked into traveling through the heartland of America with a spiritual guru.
It reads like one part travel diary, one part food journal, and one part comedy sprinkled with spiritual lessons. The spirituality pills are easy to swallow (so easy even a protestant could digest them) and they are juxtaposed with the foreign guru learning to bowl, playing miniature golf, and touring the Hershey Chocolate Factory, all in the name of good old fashion American fun.
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