
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The habit of grown-ups reading "living" books and retaining the power to digest them will be lost if we refuse to give a little time to Mother Culture. A wise woman--an admired mother and wife--when asked how, with her weak physical health and many demands upon her time, she managed to read so much, said, "Besides my Bible, I always keep three books going that are just for me--a stiff book, a moderately easy book, and a novel, and I always take up the one I feel fit for." That is the secret: always have something "going" to grow by. (pg 346)
This idea has gotten a little out of hand lately. My currently reading pile includes:








My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I'm re-reading this for a book discussion group.
By my calculations, there are three stiff books with the rest being either novels or very light reading. Not surprisingly, the stiff books are taking me much longer to get through. That's probably because "I always take up the one I feel fit for."
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