I stumbled onto James Gomes (pronounced "GOHMZ," not "GOH-mez") on Reddit.com, which I have since abandoned as a forum for anything other than dumb questions, confirmation bias and echo chambers.
However, I found a few interesting people along the way, like James. We were both into old books, and I was surprised to hear he'd read and re-read a particular book, like, every year ... for many years.
In this episode, we find out the particular pull of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha for James as well as how a non-reader became a regular and repeating reader at all.
Spend this conversation with us thinking about why you read and whether repeat readings help or comfort you.
Further reading:
Episode 46: Deana Weibel, PhD, studies space and religion
Episode 45: Georgios on the novel-like stories of Thucydides
Episode 44: Joel Schlosser on how Herodotus can help us today (and other lessons from the ancient Greek historian)
Episode 43: Kit Smith is an early childhood educator
Episode 42: Tracy Sheffield will be on the TV show ‘Walker’
Episode 41: Heike Langdon is on her way to a Master of Science in Urban Studies
Episode 40: Louis Breinin builds robots (with kids)
Episode 39: Dan Plazak studies mining fraud
Episode 38: Hilal Dogan starts teaching yoga
Episode 37: John Krygier collects classic reprints
Episode 36: Hannah Emery was a bookstore manager
Episode 35: Jeffery D. Long on Hinduism, religious nonviolence
Episode 34: Portia Stewart is a creativity consultant
Episode 33: Tania Rodriguez, Leah Ferguson study how to improve learning in older adults
Episode 32: Kelly Main acts
Episode 31: Carol Branson makes whimsy-ponderable art
Episode 30: Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson studies adolescence
Episode 29: Jeremy Black studies war (and talks academia)
Episode 28: Jonathon Stalls draws on paper, draws in energy on walks, and is drawing people out of their cars, trucks and box homes to check out the outside world
Episode 27: Rachel Rilinger teaches Tai Chi Chih
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