Then it moved on to various books by Henry James whom I discovered in junior high school and truly fell in love with in college along with Edith Wharton, D.H. It started with The Three Musketeers and I, Robot. I’ve been re-reading books ever since elementary school. I’ll share my own experience as a reader and longtime reviewer for newspapers, radio stations, and online magazines.
There are no studies quoted in his musings, no statistics, just the writer making gross generalizations based on his idiosyncratic experience. It’s then that people nearly always do return to the books they loved when young, hoping for a breath of springtime as the autumn winds blow.ĭid you hear some melancholy violin music playing in the background? I know I did. In college required reading that takes up your time, and once you graduate and box up those books, you only read best sellers.įinally, as a senior, you have no interest in new books, so you re-read old favorites. Later on you read series and then engage in competitive reading. When you’re young, you love re-reading books or having the same books read to you. He recently explained that whether you read fiction or re-read fiction is completely dependent on your age. Michael Dirda at The Washington Post has your life in books all figured out.
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