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The Basic Premise: rereading at a different age a book that impressed you years before. I would like to know if readers, particularly over 65, have delved back into books previously read and discovered more about themselves than about the books!! I have done that for several years, now am 81, and am astonished at myself quite often. Has what impressed you now changed radically from what impressed you then?

AZ BOOKS Yes all the time. For example, when you read To Kill a Mockingbird in your youth, you identify with Scout. When you read it as a parent you now see At…moreYes all the time. For example, when you read To Kill a Mockingbird in your youth, you identify with Scout. When you read it as a parent you now see Atticus in an entirely different light. (less)

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