...with a different reader.
I recently mentioned my new-found love of rereading favorites. Along with this, I have decided to reread some not-so-favorites from my bookshelf, just to give them a second spin.
Further removed from my miscarriage I loved The Time Traveler's Wife so much more! When I read it the first time, I liked it but I swore that every book or movie I laid eyes on involved someone having a miscarriage. I guess I sort of resented the book for that. When I reread it, though, I fell in love with the characters and their story.
I also forced myself to do my annual try at Reading Lolita in Tehran. I have literally started that book a minimum of 4 previous times and never gotten past the first 60 pages. I came into this attempt determined to not only read this book, but enjoy it, gosh darnit. Now here's the crazy part... I am! And I'm fairly sure that this has much less to do with my determination and much more to do with who I am and where I am today.
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I've never read "Reading Lolita in Tehran" but just Googled it and now I want to.
I had put aside "The Lovely Bones" the first time - reading it coincided with Ceilidh (then the same age as Susie, the protagonist) going off to camp for the first time. I think I can go back and read it now.
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