The delight of re-reading
Hello friends,
There is something so wonderful about re-reading a book. I don’t do it often, but there are some books that I love to re-read.
Mostly I re-read poetry but occasionally a novel.
The thing I love about re-reading is how different the book is from how I thought I remembered it to be. This was true of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, which I had read as a teenager and re-read a couple of years ago discovering how terrifyingly relevant it is and how much I didn’t get from it the first time around.
I’m currently re-reading/audiobooking ’s Book of Delights, a collection of essayettes, which Gay started on his 42nd birthday and wrote one a day for a year.
These essayettes focus on daily delights but don’t shy away from difficult parts of life which is what I appreciate most about this collection.
I’m listening to The Book of Delights on Libro.fm, a terrific alternative to Audible which allows you to support your favourite independent bookstore.
Another Story Bookshop in Toronto is the bookstore I support on Libro.
What books are you re-reading?
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Here’s an excerpt from The Book of Delights:
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