{"id":5821,"date":"2016-07-14T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2016-07-14T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:58:30","slug":"joys-and-discoveries-when-re-reading-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/joys-and-discoveries-when-re-reading-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Joys and discoveries when re-reading books."},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you feel guilty when you re-read a book (on purpose, not because you forgot you previously read it)?<\/p>\n

Juan Vidal wrote a thoughtful essay about the joys and discoveries one makes when re-reading.<\/p>\n

“Returning to a book you’ve read multiple times can feel like drinks with an old friend. There’s a welcome familiarity \u2014 but also sometimes a slight suspicion that time has changed you both, and thus the relationship. But books don’t change, people do. And that’s what makes the act of rereading so rich and transformative.<\/p>\n

The beauty of rereading lies in the idea that our engagement with the work is based on our current mental, emotional, and even spiritual register. It’s true, the older I get, the more I feel time has wings. But with reading, it’s all about the present. It’s about the now and what one contributes to the now, because reading is a give and take between author and reader.”<\/p>\n

Excerpted from: “You Can Go Home Again:\u00a0 The Transformative Joy Of Rereading,”<\/a> by Juan Vidal, NPR, April \u00a017, 2016 NPR. KQED Public Radio.<\/p>\n

\"Bono.What<\/a><\/p>\n

What books have you re-read?<\/p>\n

Note from Marlene:<\/p>\n

I have re-read so many favorites, it would be a long list.<\/p>\n

One of my all-time favorites to re-read is What Have We Here<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 by Susan Bono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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