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Do you write up your books once you've finished reading?
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I never keep track, and if I forget all the details of a book, either it's time to read it again, or perhaps it simply hasn't memorable enough for a second taste?
I enjoy forgetting. After 50 books a year for a couple decades, if I remembered everything that sounds exhausting
I'm the other way, am 61 and a prodigious reader from school age but I often wonder why bother ? I can't remember the book i read in January, let alone 5, 10 or 40 years ago, it becomes a form of brain rot I think?
I'm thinking of picking like 50 books and reading and rereading ad infinitum until i really understand them, so far I have not been brave enough to commit haha
The question becomes: are you forgetting because of the volume; or because of the quality?
Because finding wonderful, rare gems of books that etch their words upon your heart - those memories do last a lifetime.