Question of the Week: Rereading Novels

It’s time for Question of the Week, designed to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics.

This week’s question: do you reread novels you have previously read?

There are often numerous reasons to reread nonfiction – research, for example, or double-checking on how to do a certain technical procedure.

For myself, I don’t usually reread novels. That said, this year I had a hard time finding something new to read, so I reread a bunch of novels from the 2000s and early 2010s that I remember I liked, but could recall little else about. I have to admit it was enjoyable to come back to something I had previously liked with 20-ish years of additional experience – I could appreciate nuances and allusions in a way that I couldn’t before.

-JM