tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post5542942450384711635..comments2024-03-26T05:50:14.492-07:00Comments on Life on Magrs: Favourite Re-reads of 2013Paul Magrshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577751468827681218noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-40849609154816955382013-12-17T08:31:39.205-08:002013-12-17T08:31:39.205-08:00I organised myself like that because I kept bemoan...I organised myself like that because I kept bemoaning the fact that I wasn't doing any re-reading, but never really did anything about it!LyzzyBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398604923871095647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-5204592253561754672013-12-17T05:46:53.456-08:002013-12-17T05:46:53.456-08:00thank you! that's a lovely thing to say.thank you! that's a lovely thing to say. Paul Magrshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577751468827681218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-49762474769364544892013-12-17T05:46:19.171-08:002013-12-17T05:46:19.171-08:00I think my reading plans are always much less orga...I think my reading plans are always much less organised than yours, Liz! I think February would be a good month to devote to comfort reading only, since it's so dismal. I might work on that idea!Paul Magrshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577751468827681218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-31644636195998165612013-12-17T04:14:37.136-08:002013-12-17T04:14:37.136-08:00If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me n...If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” François Mauriac<br /><br />It's a good quote--what we return to stays with us and in your writing, Paul, I can sometimes see flickers and echoes of those wonderful writers that you've taken to your heart.Calder Bookshophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12860092355838305736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-88944427495281193342013-12-17T03:35:22.999-08:002013-12-17T03:35:22.999-08:00I'm a big fan of re-reading, as you probably k...I'm a big fan of re-reading, as you probably know by now. In fact I now dedicate two months a year to it - January and July - and try to make most of those months re-reading time. Oh, it's lovely, picking that pile - I'm starting to mull over January's ones already. <br /><br />I re-read for the same reasons as you, but also, I have to say, to see if it IS worth keeping an author or a genre. Last year I read one of my old Dave Gorman "quest" type books to see if those were read-it-once-ers. They're not. And I re-read a Joanna Trollope and really wasn't sure - because I've had those novels for so long, the house would be odd without them ... LyzzyBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398604923871095647noreply@blogger.com