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Books about reading (and re-reading)
Occasionally, you see a discussion here "To re-read or not to re-read".
I just finished a book by Wendy Lesser "Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering", where she discusses revisiting some authors and works over the course of her life. The book feels more like a series of essays, but there were some interesting chapters, particularly on re-reading Orwell, Paradise Lost, The Tempest, Anna Karenina, and Huck Finn, as she describes the evolution of her responses.
I have her new book, "Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books", and also Pat Conroy's "My Reading Life", on my TBR. Ditto, Lionel Trilling's "The Liberal Imagination"
Can anyone suggest any other books about reading?
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