The delight of re-reading
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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:
What books are you re-reading?
I tend to re-read short story collections, as they're more suited for picking up and putting down on a whim. Recently this includes: Lynne Coady's Hellgoing, Something Will Happen, You'll See by Christos Ikonomou (stories from the harshest point of austerity during the financial crisis), and Night Fears edited by Eric Williams (a collection of translated fiction that appeared in Weird Tales).