"Re-read your favourite books at different stages of your life. The plot never changes but your perspective does." Junaid Akram
I have done that with a few books and wish I would have been able to read more great literature when I was younger.
"A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world is different." Antonio Iturbe, The Library of Auschwitz
It's great that you can go to another world through a book, I never really though about it as a trapdoor but more a window.
"One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others." Molière
Good advice, Monsieur. It would be great if more people adhered to it.
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The first quote is VERY true. Books don't change over time but the reader definitely does. I'd be very worried if my perspective was the same as 40 years ago. I always think that as you grow you should be able to see further.
ReplyDeleteSo very true, Kitten. Hopefully, we all learn from the books we read but also from life. I sometimes find it sad that I didn't read certain books when I was younger but those were the circumstances and i didn't have the opportunities. Still, we can dream.
DeleteI actually started reading LOTS only in my early teens so I didn't read any of the classic children's books growing up. I do miss that - reading such things but through a child's eyes. Reading them now (as I'm starting to do) is interesting, but it's not the same. Today I'm too 'experienced' and far too cynical to enjoy them as much in a state of innocence/ignorance.
DeleteOh, I also read a lot, Kitten. Always. I read anything I could get my hands on but it was mostly romantic books my mother had and some German classics, nothing compared to the choice kids have nowadys. We had a small church library in our village and I could borrow one book a week from school. One!
DeleteOne! That sounds cruel. My local library when I was growing up (in my teens) kept having to ask me to bring some books back as I constantly had more than I was allowed to have under their rules (12 I think). But I did tend to 'scan' rather than read a lot of them. But back then I was reading around 150 a year - but they tended to be shorter ones mostly.
DeleteYes, it was very cruel indeed, Kitten. I probably would have been the same if I had been allowed more. But you would only get a new book if you brought your old one back.
DeleteI love that Antonio Iturbe quote! I copied it out and saved it when I was reading The Library of Auschwitz. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful quote, Lark. As I said, I see it more as a window that allows me to get to another world but a trapdoor is also a good comparison. Anything that leads us away from where we are. Not that that's boring but that we can experience ourselves.
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