Comments on: Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

By: alisa

alisa — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:14:39 +0000

I started a Circle of Quite the other day.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:03:51 +0000

I do re-read some things, especially if I’ve really enjoyed them. [There's some early Clancy I'll re-read. Others ... meh.] I’ve also found that I’m more likely to re-read fiction than non-fiction, but I’m surprisingly buying more non-fiction than fiction. Seems like a resource allocation issue on my side of things. [But now that I think about it ... I could stand to re-read blink and Freakonomics and The Tipping Point at some point.]

Great books—however one personally defines greatness, because we’re all certainly looking for different things in what we read—really should be re-read. I know that I always pick up new wrinkles of really good stuff that I re-read.

[We won't discuss the fact that I sometimes re-read the pulp fiction that is W.E.B. Griffin, okay? Okay.]

Glad you’re reading good stuff that you enjoy.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:58:43 +0000

My last reading of RoEL was my best ever too . And I’ve had some pretty great readings of it… I’m dying to work back through her fiction, and do a full read of her non-fiction, but I HAVE TO READ THE BOOKS I HAVEN’T READ first. You’ll hold me to that…. right? HA.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 04:46:18 +0000

i have also recently discovered the value of re-reading books. I think the first one i ever read more than once was Goblet of Fire, which was very helpful and brought new insights. My favorite re-read was probably The Godfather. I love reading how Vito and Michael step into their calling of being The Godfather. Holes is also a good re-read because it is so clever that it is hard to remember what comes next and exactly how all the loose ends get tied up.

I am glad that you are reading Madeleine this fall. Looking forward to some great discussions.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:06:43 +0000

I am SO with you on re-reading books. I do it constantly. I spent half of my birthday money on a series of books that I read over and over in elementary and middle school but never owned. And it really DOES take you back, to read a book and to remember exactly how you felt the first time you came across that particular sentence, or turn of the story. I love it. I’m just as happy re-reading a good book as I am reading a new book for the first time. If not happier. (Amd Madeleine is one of my favorite authors to re-read.)