What book could you read over and over again?
I’m going to be frank with you. I used to read books with a voracious quality, signaling my need to read more and more. My mom used to go to the public library on my behalf, at times, and come back with ten books. I write a novel (a bad one) at a young age. I wish I still had it. I would cry a storm if I were to ever find it because it represents a time where the written word meant so much to me. It’s a time when I was enchanted to go on a journey of imagination.
Fast forward to today, and I haven’t read a book in a long time. I want to read one. I don’t want to just be reading bite or Twitter-size ramblings all day-long. I also am a bit tired of all my field papers, I supposely need to read to keep up with the prevailing wisdom that healthcare is and needs to change.
Healthcare, a year from now, will be different. The world banking system will be different. None of what we are currently doing is sustainable. But I most certainly have digressed. Although, I have not.
With all the changes afoot, I need to read these snippets that supposedly give you insight into the world. They don’t. Either way, I wish I could go back to my escapism of youth.
Now, I am going to admit something. I love the movie Dirty Dancing. I’ve seen that movie at least once a year. There’s no such book for me.
I do believe that when younger, I re-read Catcher in the Rye. I actually liked it. I would re-read Random Family despite it being over 1,000 pages. Unbelievebly well-captured non-fiction of a community in the early ’80s and early ’90s. I’m also willing, in theory, to re-read all the Harry Potter books in the series. I think the book Salt is important to understand and perhaps re-read.
With that said, I think I will get a bew book and give it a try. Any good suggestions welcomed. Perhaps it is time for me to go back to my childhood, exploratory times.
Categories: Culture, current events, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
I do not read fiction books, and I am a WWII aficionado, so that is the subject I read the most. There is a book called “Flight to Arras”, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, about a reconnaissance mission he flew, during the German invasion of France. I re-read that book more times than I care to remember. It is about war and the futile effort to stop the nazis, but it was written poetically, after all, it is Saint-Exupéry.
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Really? Sounds interesting! Thanks for sharing. I’ll look into it
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I rarely reread a book. There are so many I haven’t gotten to, yet! I don’t think I’d dare make a recommendation, not knowing what kind of book you might be looking for. I read very broadly, though do gravitate more to some genres than others. It does help both to reflect on the world and the human condition, but also to block it out for a little while. Happy reading!
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Thanks. I’m looking forward to decompressing with a book
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Have you read any books by Malcolm Gladwell ? They’re non-fiction but he tackles really interesting subjects….my favorite is Outliers. Do you have a favorite hobby or activity you’re interested in or maybe a place you want to visit in the future, perhaps start there
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Most definitely! He is a social psychologist as I am. Love his books. I have not yet read outliers. Will do so now. Thx!
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“Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone”
“Oh yeah”
He’s saying “Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone”
Oh, let it rock, let it roll
Let the bible belt come and save my soul
Holdin’ on to sixteen as long as you can
Change is coming ’round real soon
Make us women and men”
Oh Dear Lord Dear Miriam
With Memories of ‘The Boss”
Singing What A Nightmare if i Had
to Go Back to ‘Sweet 16’ Compared
To Soul Felt Free Close to 63 In June
of Course ever since 6.6.60 on Course
i Remember As A Small Child So Very Bored
Wishing There Was Some Kind of Machine Where
i Could Press A Button to Ask it Anything i Wanted to Know
in Life of Course
After Age 4 When
i Could Speak as Before
That Just Absorbing the
Environment Around me in Input Way
So Much To Do in College to Earn 3 Degrees at Once With 3 Part-Time Jobs
Then Mind Turning to Mush After That With Some Kind of Job to Make Pay
Yes And Then in the 80’s That First Work Computer Where You Could Play
the Little Game with the Snake Eating Digital Artifacts on a Black And White
Screen Growing Longer That Yellow Color of the Little Snake So Bright Seemed
Wonderful
Compared
to A World Without
Much Stimulation for Mind That Way
“Flowers For Algernon” Sure When i Was in School
And Now That Book Read in Youth “Jonathan Livingston
Seagull” and Even the Movie “Forrest Gump” Has Really
Come True for me as All i Really Aimed to Do is Fulfill Whatever
Human Potential i Could Do From Young Not Money And Stuff
Related Yet
Ascending in All
The Virtues of what
it Means to Be Human
Free With Fur and Wings
And True Transcending too
Yet of Course Space For That
Comes With Avenues to Improve
As Far As Human Tools Come and Go
And Financial Independence No Longer
Under the Whim of Who Runs my Life With Theirs
Every Day i Awake to A New Adventure Full of Wonderlust
It Doesn’t Matter if it is
A New Color of Flower in Eden
Outside The Window in my Bedroom
Smaller than this 27.1 Inch iMac Screen
Or the Vast Arts and Sciences at my Finger Tips
And 5K Screen of Colors All Around the World Practically Free
Every Day is a New Page of my Life There is Just Way too Much to
Learn and Evolve to Be And Do in Co-Creation Moving Connecting
Than Read Any Story From Yesterday Unless It May Be New to
Evolve A Soul From
All Viewpoints
Worldly of
Course
And the
Deepest
Recesses
of Fur And Wings Within
Yet of Course i Do Understand
The Need to Decompress With
Some Kind of Cultural Comfort at Hand
We Actually Watched Old Shows Like ‘Bewitched’
in my 30’s to Wind Down After Work on the ‘Old Show
Channel’ From our 10 Foot Satellite Dish Oh Dear Lord So
Much Change in One Life Oh Dear Lord For Those Who Master
The Tools And Do Not Become Mastered By Them or Becoming the
Tools in Form
More than
Essence of
Humanity
These Are the Best
of Days Yet to Be Alive
Still Evolving Always Now A
New Avenue to Pursue Spiraling Wings Higher…
Anyway i’ve Got More ‘Ads For Heaven’ in This Work
Space at Home To Do And Yes i Do Believe my Wife is
Twitching Her
Nose For
For Whatever
Magic Recipe
i Will Come to Eat Next
Life Continues to Be More
Like ‘Bewitched’ With ‘White
Magic’ Indeed Yet Of Course
There Are Circus Clowns
From the Gutters
Close
to IT
Returning Again too
A Balance oF DarK and LiGHT
DarK is LiGHT NiGHT iS Day
Full Moon
Reflects
Sun New
Now Comes and
Goes And Continues to Return…
Oh What Humans Will Achieve Together More..:)
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There aren’t many books I’ve read more than once. I read “The Lord of the Rings” twice, I think, and I’ve made a couple of passes through all the Rex Stout “Nero Wolfe” books, but that’s about it …
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Ah, i just started with nero wolfe – tv series!
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Ooh, I hope it’s the old A&E series with Timothy Hutton and Maury Chaykin ― that’s the best adaptation I’ve seen!
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No, i haven’t caught that one. Will have to find it
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