IndieReader Recommmends 'A Buddhist Path to Joy'
- Mel Pine
- Oct 7
- 2 min read

With 10 days to the relase date for A Buddhist Path to Joy: The New Middle Way Expanded Edition, IndieReader has awarded it 4+ Stars and and “Recommended” status. Its reviewer Dan Accardi wrote:
Written with humility, openness, and humanity, A Buddhist Path to Joy…provides a welcome starting-point for readers who want to go past the superficial layers of pop-culture meditation and yoga through understanding. [The book] is an excellent overall primer to a living practice of modern Buddhism.
An earlier review on NetGalley said:
A Buddhist Path to Joy by Mel Pine is a treasure, worthy of taking the time to carefully read every chapter and meditate on the Dharma that is shared within the pages. Pine does an excellent job of clearly laying out what he considers to be the middle; path however, for those who want more, he also shares shares bits of what other paths are like.
I thought I had fulfilled my mission to share what I could from almost eight decades of life and four of Buddhist practice in The New Middle Way, published five months ago, but the process of writing and publishing it led me to add more. The expanded edition has 50% more content.
Until October 17, the eBook is on pre-publication sale for $2.99 through these online marketers worldwide. The paperback will be available on that date, and I’m aiming to have the self-narrated audiobook out by mid-November.
If you’ve read The New Middle Way and want only the new chapters, they’re in Short Readings on Awakening to Joy: Lessons from Buddhism and Life, available only through Amazon and Audible.
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