Re-reading
I’m a re-reader. If a book strikes me as a great read or incredibly helpful, I have a tendency to re-read it. Some books I’ll re-read as often as yearly. I think I’ve probably read Ender’s Game at least once a year since I first read it. Others I come back to as I pass them on the shelf, going “Oh yeah, that was good. I don’t remember it all. I should read it again.” Desiring God by John Piper is one of those. So is The Knowledge of the Holy by Tozer.
I’m seldom disappointed by re-reading. I guess that probably just means that my memory is reasonably good. It seems like I usually end up finding a new angle that didn’t click the last time I read the book. Are there books that you read repeatedly? Or are you the type of reader that would rather never re-read?
Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles
Definitely some Piper, the two volume biography of Hudson Taylor.
I don’t know if I could read Ender’s Game again – it produced too much tension
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Love and pickles,