In Reading the Bible: Where’s Waldo? and the Council at Jerusalem I shared how I have come to realise that much of my Bible reading has been self-centred, looking for how the text applies to my life without first understanding the text on its own terms. I wanted to give some examples of how I think we can read the Bible in an unhelpful way, and then to mention three books that have helped me to better understand and be inspired afresh in my reading of the Bible lately.