Redo

I don't usually re-read the books I read in high school, but for quite some time now I've been wanting to go back to a few of them. The Great Gatsby, for some reason, has been near the top of my list, so when I got myself involved in a book club recently, and when they chose The Great Gatsby as the reading for the first month that I was going to make it (except that, unfortunately, I didn't make it thanks to some dissertation deadlines), I was really, really excited. This was right before I went to Seattle, and I stopped at a little used bookstore in Seattle and bought myself a used copy of the book. It looked exactly like the book I had in high school, just without the notes in the margin and the green pen underlining passages I thought were important, or that I thought my English teacher would think were important.

I remember liking the book in high school, but I have this sort of sense that I didn't really fully appreciate it, that there was something I missed that I might pick up on now that I am an adult with more than a decade of additional life experience behind me. And I was not disappointed. I loved my second read, and in some ways I think it did read differently than when I was seventeen.

I have been reading lately, I just haven't been keeping up well on my book blog. But I finally got around to my review. You can check it out here.

And for the comments section, what have you gone back and read (or watched or listened to) again as an adult and loved for entirely different reasons?