Quote of the Week: Muriac

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you re-read."

 Francois Muriac 

My read and re-read list includes Les Miserables, (my favorite!) The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, The Harry Potter Series, Gone with the Wind, The Stand, The Thirteenth Tale, and many, many others.  When I have a few more moments, I'll add a list of theological/doctrinal favorites that I have read and re-read.

So, what have YOU re-read?

Update on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 08:19AM by Kim from Hiraeth

Here's a short list of my favorite theological 're-read' books:

Holiness of God, RC Sproul

Christ of the Covenants, O. Palmer Robertson

The Christian Life, Sinclair Ferguson

Knowing God, J. I Packer

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, J. I. Packer

Pilgrims Progress, Paul Bunyan

True Spirituality, Francis Schaeffer

The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis

Feel free to add the theological/doctrinal books you've read again and again!

Comments

[adrianna]

Anna Karenina; To Kill A Mockingbird; Cry, the Beloved Country

All good books! I've read them all and re-read Anna Karenina and To Kill a Mockingbird. I haven't (yet) re-ready Cry, the Beloved Country. I read it in a high school literature class, so it's been many years. Maybe I need to put it on my 'to be read' list!

[John]

Walden, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, On Writing Well, Tom Sawyer

Haven't read Walden (other than that which has been exerpted in other books). I've re-read Tom Sawyer. Lloyd-Jones' Studies in the Sermon on the Mount is due to be delivered on my front doorstep on Wednesday or Thursday of this week! We've just begun a study on the Sermon on the Mount in our Sunday school class.

[lawyerchik1]

I'm with you on the Lord of the Rings (including the Hobbit) and the Harry Potter books! I only own the last 2 of the Potter series in hardcover, and I'm frantically scrambling to buy the rest! (I did buy all of the movies - except the last one). I love "Til We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis, in addition to Screwtape and the Narnia series, and I re-read an old book called "Rusty: A Cocker Spaniel" that is no longer in print, but is a delightful book. Other reads (and re-reads) include almost anything by Thomas Sowell, particularly "Applied Economics," but that's only because I can't digest them as well during the first read!

Other than those (and maybe a couple of others I can't remember right at the moment), I don't "re-read" much - if I remember how the book comes out, I often don't read a book again.

Your Cocker Spaniel book reminds me of a book I've read many times--for myself and to my kids: That Quail Robert. I don't know if it's available any more but it's a wonderful nature/wildlife true story.

[Janet]

I used to read David Copperfield almost every winter and I love Oliver Twist, too. I've read Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife several times. Also The Chosen by Chaim Potok. Just reread Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and will reread her Home soon, too. I read Laura Ingalls Wilder's books as a girl and rereading them as an adult made me see Ma and Pa in a whole new light. I've also read My Antonia by Willa Cather a few times. So who am I? :-)

[heidi]

I reread just about every book I own. I read so much that I need to bring in about 8 books a week or I go into reread mode. I've reread most of the lists above , plus, All of Charles Williams novels, and D.L. Sayers as well. Most of Ursula LeGuin's books have been read at least ten times, A Prayer for Own Meaney, anything by Gail Godwin or P.D. James, Elizabeth Goudge's fiction and non-fiction. I love Madeleine L'Engle, A.A. Milne,
James Lee Burke, unless we're talking about a quick romance novel (hanging head in shame to admit this) then I've read it more than once.

Don't tell mw what it means about me. I can guess.