I am not sure how many books I have reread, but perhaps it is fewer than the average personThe reading material, though, is of course not new.
I used to take the same approach to books as I did to travel: don't go to the same place twice. Life is too short. Then I realized that the fact that life is short might work the other way around too: if you know you enjoy something. or somewhere, then why not return?
Recently I reread Joseph Heller's Catch-22. I was inspired to do so when reminded of how he'd respond when people rudely asked him why he'd never written anything as good:"Who has?" Catch-22pretty much saved my life when I first read it. I had dropped out of school twice, didn't leave the house at all and didn't have a life. It felt as though I hadn't laughed in such a long time
It managed to take me out of the dark world, and though its themes are, of course, serious its cleverness cheered me greatly. I related to its characters who are themselves trapped. I am now planning to reread the sort of books that inspired me in my own writing.
I won't take a break altogether from reading the most recent releases. I love the smell of new books fresh from the printers..
A. Catch-22 had me laughing
B.My favourite are secondhand editions
C. There is discomfort in reading recently-released books
D. At that time, I was an extremely depressed 17-year-old.
E. For me, the pleasure of rereading is a newly discovered one
F. There is so much to read and so much to see and experience
G.However, I have determined to read the old ones more frequently
