Soledad's Journal

I do like re-reading books, but I have had a few bad experiences with the book not living up to my memory of it. In most cases, books I liked when I read them the first time I like when I read them again. And because I am a different person with different experiences each time I read them I usually find something new in them each time. For example, once I re-read Swallowdale while travelling to the Lake District by train, having to change a couple of times with my train being delayed. It turns out that the Walkers were also travelling to the Lakes by train at the beginning of the book and that Susan found it an exhausting experience trying to keep track of everybody and make the changes. I had absolutely no memory of that from my previous encounters with the book!