Perspective: To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar
.” Page count, after all, confers cachet. In ninth grade, I doggedly worked my way through a two-volume history of English literature mainly to show off.College is dominated by required reading. In those years, we don’t read, we take notes, we highlight and underline. Study grows into a weariness of the flesh. In the evenings, we dutifully trot over to the library, spread our books out on an oak seminar table, opento Chapter 3 and then gently lower our heads onto our pillowy backpacks.
Still, some folks discover the secret to thwarting the meretricious allure of the evanescently contemporary. Instead of picking up new books, they go back to old favorites. There are people who every year reread “The Lord of the Rings” or Jane Austen’s six novels or the complete adventures of Sherlock Holmes or all the plays of Shakespeare. My favorite college professor reread “Madame Bovary” whenever he taught the novel, which was essentially every year for three decades.
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