“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” While I don't agree entirely with this quote by Oscar Wilde, in the sense that there are some books which are brilliant and beautiful which don't lend themselves to re-reading, I'm wholly in sympathy with the spirit of the quote, that re-reading books is a big part of reading because there is much to be discovered in a good book on the second or third read that was perhaps missed e

One of my many bookish pleasures is picking up book one of a three volume or five volume or ten volume series that looks interesting, and settling in, comfortable in the knowledge that I've found a fictional world to inhabit for anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months. There's nothing I like more than finding a bunch of characters that I like, set in a particular time and place, having adventures, and living their lives book after book with a narrative that keep

Every now and then, my sister and I will meet up at the bookshop on a weekday and take a bit of time away from curating and shelving books to talk about what we’ve been reading. We spend time browsing the bookshelves, and picking our next reads. We know the titles that we’ve ordered and shelved, and most of the books we get for the shop, we want to read, but that’s different from deciding which specific book to pick up next. It’s nice to take a step back and look at the books