Did you like that book? Read it again!

"“Huck” is a great illustrator of “Vlad” (I didn’t actually know him) Nabokov’s admonition that there is no such thing as reading. Only rereading. Try it with a book you read and think you know. It’s as if the thing’s been rewritten and filled with gems that you missed the first time. Try it, even with a few pages you’ve just read. We’d all have been better off to have read half as many books. Twice."

(Dick Cavett, interviewed in the NYT Sunday Book Review) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/books/review/dick-cavett-by-the-book.html?emc=edit_bk_20141219&nl=books&nlid=20885389

He's right. I've only done this once so far, with Smilla's Sense of Snow, and I couldn't believe how much of the story I'd forgotten. Also, the whole time I was reading it I was waiting to rediscover a sort of philosophical musing about the importance of Smilla's clothing to her sense of self-possession and confidence. This had really impressed me, but it turns out that IT DOESN'T EXIST. No such passage in the book. So I'm even more impressed with the thought now because it appears that I made it up myself.

Anyway, go get one of your favorite books and read it again.