![]() You’ve got a taste for a specific dish – the entree whose flavor seeped into your saliva the moment someone suggested this restaurant. But to me, known works are like your favorite menu item at a restaurant. I get that, and I wish I were adventurous enough to always try something new, to discover another favorite. ![]() ![]() I’ve talked with other readers about whether they re-read, and the non re-reader’s reason for sticking with new material is that there is so much to read in the world, so many brilliant works of literature, why waste precious time reading what you’ve already read? Always in summer, or when I want to chill wine in an Alpine stream, or see the sun glinting off the Gulf of Mexico, or simply feel warm. Hemingway over and over again, sometimes going two years, sometimes two months. ![]() I read The Shipping News every year, Lonesome Dove every couple of years, Life of Pi every three or four, Gone with the Wind every six or seven. Savoring sentences like fine chocolate that can be eaten by the square instead of by the bar. But as the years go on, I take my time with it, reading a chapter a night instead of ten. I think I’ve read it every winter since 1999, the year my Uncle Syd gave it to us. ![]() I just finished my annual reading of The Shipping News. ![]()
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