On rereading

[@HardcoverHearts]

I’m so glad you made this video and kicked off this project ! Of course I feel the exact same way about our reading - being able to keep up with your insights challenges me to analyze and be thoughtful (albeit rambling) about how I share my thoughts . I am adding this one to my list!!

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

Isn’t it wonderful and precious how we lift each other up when reading together? I have no doubt at all that you will love this novel too!

[@J0zB]

During my re-reading month, I have been struck by how profoundly ignorant and ambitious I was as a young reader. I’ve revisited Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak and just wept. I re-read George Gissing’s New Grub Street and laughed out loud. Did you notice in your re-reading that you paid more attention to the author’s intentions? December has scuppered my reading plans for 2024 because I intend to include much more re-reading. Thank you for making such a thoughtful video. You and Sarah are the best reading duo ever.

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

Thank you, Debby! I feel the same way about myself as a young reader. Bit it lay the foundation of my reading life which, like yours, has become much more thoughtful now. I love that. And yes, I pay much more attention to the author’s intent now. New Grub Street is on my tbr!

[@RoadReads]

I love hearing your thoughts on re-reading, Leo! Thank you! One of my goals this year was to re-read more, which I did indeed do. (For the most part, the experience of re-reading was wonderful; though there were a few exceptions. -- Which, while disappointing, is also interesting.)

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

A reread is such a great way to dive deeper into a novel and get more out of it. I agree, Susan, also a disappointment is interesting in what it tells you about how your reading has changed over the years.

[@DebMcDonald]

What a creative idea for a video! I love re-reading and do it all the time. I’m so interested in what happens next that the first reading is superficial. Only on a re-read when I can relax that I take in everything else and think about it. I too find great joy in reading with others as they have life experiences to add and I remember the books long after the discussion . I enjoyed Handful of Dust as a horror novel. It was disturbing and the ending was creepy. I remember watching the film years ago and found it very good.

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

That’s so interesting, thinking of A Handful of Dust as horror! What happens to Tony at the end is of course brutal and horrible.

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

Hi Leo, Great Idea for a video. Aloha.

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

Thank you, Marilyn 😊

[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

This was such a brilliant project especially describing the book as you recalled it before the reread. I felt almost anxious for you in case the book did not live up to your memory. I tend to devour books as you describe your younger self doing, so buddyreads, groupreads and rereads have been really good for me too. Also knowing I may want to talk about a book in a video. Incidentally I reread A Handful of Dust a few years ago, decades after the first time, and like you was much more aware of the satire.

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

I am even making a small list of books I want to reread next year. This reread was such a nice experience! There actually are good things about becoming an older reader 😉

[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

@@Leoslittlebooklife true 😄

[@johnford6967]

Yes very interesting.Wil go back and read "Twenty years after." one that stays with me...

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

Ah, Alexandre Dumas! I still have to read The Count of Monte Cristo.

[@CharlieBrookReads]

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[@Leoslittlebooklife]

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[@DebMcDonald]

The movie is on KZbin with an outstanding cast. I’m going to watch it right now.

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

Oh, great! Thank you! I watched the movie many years ago and want to watch it again. And it’s not available on dvd in my region code. Would that make it a re-watch? 😉

[@DebMcDonald]

Enjoyed my re-watch! I still found it frightening…the note at the end of Hard Times ☠️. The ending with the female fox who got her tail bit because she put it in another fox’s cage was a statement wasn’t it? It reminds me of My Cousin Rachel when they describe a “rank vixen smell “. So glad you brought this up because I had a great afternoon.

[@Leoslittlebooklife]

@@DebMcDonald That’s wonderful, Deborah!