Is there a book that you’ve read more than once? What is it and why did you revisit it?
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. I first read it in my twenties and then I re-read it in my forties. I wanted to know if it would be just as stunning to read a book that Thomas Mann wrote about life at all its stages, from early adulthood to old age, when he was only 25. I wanted to know it would hold up once I’d gone through some of those life experiences myself. And it did, and was possibly even more impressive upon rereading.
Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood has been my favorite rereading experience; the protagonist is a mirror image.
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