I have been thinking about how valuable narrow reading is--whether it is reading the same book numerous times, reading a number of books by the same author, and/or reading a number of books about the same topic.
I recently reread Middlemarch by George Eliot. Then we watched the DVD--all 7 hours of it! Then yesterday I finished reading the Middlemarch Cliff Notes. Every experience with this book gave me new insights that I would have missed if I had just said, "I read that book once. I have also been reading a number of books by George Eliot even those I read quite some time ago. Even though I knew some of the stories revisiting them enriched me.
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