The Outsider
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Have you read a book a second time and have absolutely no memory of the first time?
Jenny
Aug 28, 2023 05:49PM
Because I just did that with this one. I am frightened that I have dementia or something. Normally at some point during the second reading of a book, something is triggered and I go, you silly girl, you've been here before. Perhaps because I am familiar with Holly from earlier books if that happened I wrote it off as remembering them. Either way. Yikes.
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That's been happening a lot lately. I've been rereading through the numerous Agatha Christie books on my shelves over the last few months. Granted it's been 15 or more years since I read any of them but the twists are still pretty memorable. I'm shocked at how little I've remembered. I'm on Death on the Nile now and that one at least I remember. I've been enjoying it for her writing rather than the plot twists.
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Happens to me too, I blame post-menopause shenanigans though. Also I recently re-read one of my favourite books again, I couldn't remember any of it and actually disliked it!
...a little late to the discussion... The first time I read Willkie Collins "Woman In White" (I think I was around 19yrs old), I thought it was a ghost story. I know, right! call me special, but that was my interpretation. Upon second reading some 33 years later...realised that it isn't a ghost story, and seemed a completely different story.
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