Here we go.
I'm going to nominate
Rereadings by Anne Fadiman, ed.
From Kobo:
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Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
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These essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are about relationships. The relationship between reader and book is a powerful one, and as these writers attest, it evolves over time. Rereadings reveals at least as much about the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing than the love of a book.
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I'll be honest; in general I don't reread much, but in recent years I've rediscovered the Victorian novelists and my experience of them is much deeper and richer than when I read them decades ago. So I'm on board with the essential premise!
Kobo: US$9.99; CA$10.99; AU$13.08; UKŁ6.95 / Amazon AU: $9.86
Heh! Cheapest in Australia. There had to be something. The US is the highball price, but the book's available on OverDrive.
272 pp.