Sentence examples for revisiting books from inspiring English sources

Perhaps that's why William Hazlitt wrote that revisiting books can "transport us, not over half the globe but (which is better) over half our lives, at a word's notice!" By the end of college, standing in my bedroom and turning my head from left to right could transport me across my entire reading life.

A common fear in revisiting books from the 80s and 90s is whether or not they'll hold up to our current standards of representation.

In short, revisiting the books has been a real pleasure, so far.

For the younger Roth, a founder of the literary journal n+1, revisiting these books became a way of decoding the troubling mysteries surrounding his father's life and death, and provides one of the focal points for this affecting memoir.

Revisiting her books after her death, I was struck by their warmth, generosity and spiky humor, but I seemed to find a slender, darkening thread of sadness and disappointment and a tendency to see herself as older than she was (60, she wrote somewhere, was the beginning of "old age").

Revisiting kids' books in adulthood can yield all sorts of weird and wonderful subtexts, some more obvious than others.

Revisiting the book now, I skirt around its problems, envy its resourceful and intractable heroes.

Revisiting the book this week, I was appalled that my earlier self, reading "Heat" a decade ago, hadn't even registered them as reason for concern.

Revisiting the book two decades later, Murray can assess which of the awkward amphibians she once championed have turned into stable species.

I'll admit now that I wasn't entirely looking forward to revisiting the book; I had a memory of abstraction — a mental coldness, to match the planetary chill.

STUMBLING upon Henry James's "Portrait of a Lady" 20 years after first reading it, Wendy Lesser discovered that revisiting this book was a "dizzying" and "vertiginous" engagement with a younger self.