When I was in first grade, the nuns in my school were worried about me because every week when we went to the Library, I always took out “Curious George and the man with the Big Yellow Hat.” They even called my mother to try and talk to me about it, like it was weird or something.
It’s funny, because I still do the same thing with books I love. I have read Sailing Alone around the World about twenty times, and The Odyssey just as many. I have probably read Walden every year since I was eighteen, and Moby Dick and Huck Finn enough times to feel like I am almost a scholar of those books. My wife just shakes her head as I pick up the same book again as she and my daughter Margaret reads reams of different books each week.
I don’t know why I keep returning to the same books time and again, but I think it is something like when Buddha said “You can never enter the same river twice.” Each time I reread a book I am a different person.
You should try it. Go find a book you read a gazillion times when you were a kid and reread it again—and then tell us in a blog post if you still like book, and why….
Does anybody love Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel as much as me?
I hope so.
It’s funny, because I still do the same thing with books I love. I have read Sailing Alone around the World about twenty times, and The Odyssey just as many. I have probably read Walden every year since I was eighteen, and Moby Dick and Huck Finn enough times to feel like I am almost a scholar of those books. My wife just shakes her head as I pick up the same book again as she and my daughter Margaret reads reams of different books each week.
I don’t know why I keep returning to the same books time and again, but I think it is something like when Buddha said “You can never enter the same river twice.” Each time I reread a book I am a different person.
You should try it. Go find a book you read a gazillion times when you were a kid and reread it again—and then tell us in a blog post if you still like book, and why….
Does anybody love Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel as much as me?
I hope so.