Owl Goddess (moonlove) wrote in worldofbooks, @ 2012-03-03 23:48:00 |
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Classics and Memory
I never reread the classics as much as I feel that I should. I read on other blogs about readers who feel compelled to read a book every year and I can say that about no book. I feel such guilt indulging that way with all these books unread sitting in my bookcases so I never reread books as often as I would like. Some books it's been a very long time since I last picked them up for reading and not just reorganizing the shelves.
Over the past few years I've managed to reread books with varying degrees of result. Some books I have grown to love much more with another perusal and others I am left feeling a little deflated. They don't have to be necessarily bad, but just not as spectacular as I remember.
So it leaves me worried about some books where it's been some time since I last picked them up for some quality time. Will I still like them as much if not more? Or what if I feel (Valar forbid) less than enchanted by it? My tastes in a book have changed in as little as two years so I cannot imagine what could happen if I choose to read something like Gone with the Wind which I haven't read in two decades!