A painting by one of my favorite artists: Deborah DeWit
Tonight just a thought about reading…
“One can always read a good book twice, ” Mrs Arbuthnot snapped. “In fact one always should read a good book twice.”
~ Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
A Fondness For Reading 
I completely subscribe to that theory. And practice it! LOL
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Kay, me too! Except with Jane Austen, I’ve always felt that I need to reread her books at many different stages of my life! Each time I read them, I understand them differently. Time for another reread of those favorites!
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I hope to do more of this when I’m retired and have more time to read. I recently read and then listened to the same book, something I’ve never done before. I was hoping to see what I was missing in the book that so many people loved. (The book is My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout). Neither format wowed me.
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Les, reading and then listening to the book is a great idea! I’ll have to try that. Your experience with Lucy Barton is one I run into every once in awhile, too. Everybody seems to like a certain book, but it just doesn’t do it for me and I never quite understand why.
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I have several books that touched me and I keep them tucked away to read again …. and again.
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Secretary66, same here. They’re real treasures, aren’t they.
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There is something so comforting about returning to a good book, a favorite book, a book one has read before. It is indeed an old friend.
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Well said, Meredith! I so agree! Very comforting and very much an old friend!
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