To read and to re-read!

To read and to re-read!

I came across some posts about re-reading on social media and I think re-reading books is such a pleasurable activity. When one re-reads a book after some years, the slightly blunt edges of  some of the some of ths things one has read suddenly sharpens, like sitting up in a chair in which you were almost slumbering when your flight is announced. It also reminds you a little bit of the time you first read it which can be pleasant or unpleasant or just different from the now. 

And then you are a different person from then when reading the same book again. Whether the change is remarkable or slight there is no denying the change in turn making the book a little bit different to the earlier read. Some books feel like you are reading them again, some feel like they are a lot different to what you remember. And one notices different things - words, ideas, characters, traits of characters, associations. 

So all in all most interesting, re-reading.