What is a book that you read at one point in your life, for example as a teenager, and then reread later on and your perspective on it changed? For better or worse.

Examples: I reread The Great Gatsby this year, which I hated in highschool, but really liked it the second time around. On the opposite end, I also reread The Winter People, which I read in my early twenties and really liked, but now I found it lazy and underwhelming. I'm currently rereading another book from my teen years and trying to figure out how I feel about it 🤔

I've always really liked the idea that you never read the same book twice, the book stays the same but you change. (Not sure where I first heard this, if it is a quote from some sort of media please let me know)

I hope nobody has done this already 👀

I made a Letterboxd list with all of the movie adaptations of the books in this quest because I wanted to know how many I actually watched. Thought I‘d share in case anyone else here is, like me, about as insufferable about movies as they are about books 🎥

Funnily enough, Letterboxd is telling me I watched 28 of the movies, which is exactly one less than I read books. A complete coincidence, considering I a) definitely don’t have every movie I ever watched logged and b) most of them aren’t even ones where I read the book. I‘ll still call this double platinum 🙂‍↕️

My system for selecting movies was essentially copying the book title into Letterboxd and clicking on the first result. If there are any mistakes or the adaptation is not The One Everyone Has Watched, let me know!

(I'm reading the Spanish translation so I apologise if the pages or the concept seems different as I translate it back to eng for the post) I'm just on the introduction, explaining about the concept of God/Great Creator and how it's not trying to be religious, and if you don't agree with it to mentally change it to "flow" or "path", she says something like "do not let semantics get in the way".

I do see her point, but she is avidly and consciously using this concept/semantics, and that has its own weight, so it feels rather empty to tell the reader to not let it bother them if it's not aligned with their beliefs.

She also says "It's not about the name we use"... But it is! Choosing God/Creator over Universe/Path/Energy has certain beliefs/vision implied and rooted throughout the book.

I may change my impression as I read, but I'm not having the best of the introduction to the book with this! How do you feel about it?

… you don’t have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?

Ugh! What a gut punch! 😢