Otherwise I'm not a great rereader – or at least, I'm a failed one: I decide to reread something I read 20 years ago and then give up because the original experience, presumed forgotten, turns out to have been mysteriously preserved, like a leaf between the pages.
After hearing from Jenny I decided to reread "The Heidi Chronicles".
When she began studying the Quran, he decided to reread it.
I found it great fun, and decided to reread it the following summer – then again many a summer after that.
"And then I decided to reread my own books," Mr. Roth went on, "and I began from the last book forward, casting a cold eye.
After the holidays, I got incredibly sick of talking to people, and decided to reread Claire Messud's "The Emperor's Children".
Then, he said, "When I finished, I decided to reread all of my books beginning with the last, 'Nemesis.' "I wanted to see if I had wasted my time writing.
So I decided to reread the books I'd read as a girl, the books that shaped my ideas of how to be a woman, to see if I'd always chosen the wrong role models.
I had been distracted and after having an epiphany about the connection of what my mind was thinking about and how well it matched the content of the articles, I decided to reread a little more and check my phone, of course.
But I recently decided to reread something else by Lovelace: her one stand-alone young-adult book, "Emily of Deep Valley," published in 1950, in which the shy protagonist of the title becomes Deep Valley's premier advocate for the Syrian immigrants who live on the outskirts of town.
