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This is where we'll discuss A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki.

I just picked up a copy from the library. So far, so interesting.

I had a hard time getting into this book at first but 75 pages in, I'm hooked. I'm familiar with the Northwest setting and like how she connects author and reader in different ways.

I'm living with someone who often mentions Zen Buddhism and I've never "gotten it". Like the great grandmother in this book, it seems contradictory and alien to my thinking. How can something be both 'something' and 'not something'?

I read this book from cover to cover. Including epilogue, appendices, jacket cover...not only do I get it, but I'm blown away. I feel like anything I say will seem trite and banal.

Like, thank you Ruth Ozeki for explaining the meaning of life to me. In a way that takes into account all that I have experienced and learned, wondered about and tried to explain. I will be buying this book and re-reading it over and over.

Once I got past my dislike of the Japanese teenager -- yes, there was just something about her that I found irritating and distasteful -- I was able to embrace her honesty and her journey. By the end of the story, I was humbled. A masterpiece.

Move over, Night Circus...I've found a new favorite.

I agree Kathryn! A real masterpiece. I finished the book last week - I really have too many books on my plate.

I want to send it to a family friend who's living in Japan and just lost his brother right before Christmas.

What a beautiful story and to parallel it to the man who figured out the math for Schrodinger's Cat. Mind blowing.