Milorad Pavić in his book Landscape Painted with Tea suggests that we should read each book 3 times. One when we are younger than the main character, one when we have the same age and one more when we are older. As eccentric as it sounds it is actually a good advice. I have found very interesting the way my understanding of a book changes over the years and I tend to go back to the good books for a second or even a third reading.
Animal Farm and 1984 are excellent books although I think that the reality we are meant to live is more of a mixture of the 1984's big brother with the genetically modified citizens of the Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, another brilliant futuristic book that I love!
Welcome back to your homeland and to your gardens :)
Agreed. That advice makes perfect sense, because whoever said that people don't change was a liar. We are changelings our entire lives, we grow, experience ,and learn, we get impacted and shaped constantly. My younger self probably couldn't draw the same conclusions back then as I can today and I wonder how old granny M will look at this book too. Could be interesting if someone would document book reading this way, in three stages as a youngling, then same age as the main character and the last one when old and grey.
Oh my, I am hanging my head in shame. I actually haven't read the Brave New World. So many books I should probably try and read before kicking the bucket or something, hehe
Thank you @fotostef :) It is good to be home. I am just so, so happy and just want to do all I can at once, but at the same time I need to slow down and just enjoy. Summer this year seems perfect for it too.