From: Lisa Von Drasek <lisav>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:28:16 -0400

That is a interesting question. Why do we reread?

My guess is for comfort. Just look at those kids reading Harry Potter and then starting all over again.

There were certainly less books available to me at the elementary age. I know that there was a school library but I don't remember going there very much and also the lack of time when there. You were supposed to choose a book now, not read one. The public library was a car ride away and usually reserved for a rainy Sunday afternoon. My mom would drop us, me and my three brothers and we would be on our own for hours.

I was sent to 8 weeks of summer camp at the age of 13 with only 3 books with me. No other readers in the bunk. Oh the horror. I did an enormous amount of reading from my synagogue library. I remember I am Rosemarie, The Endless Steppe and All of a Kind Family.


These posts also reminded me of piano lessons. My twin brother and I took piano lessons in Mrs. Kestenbaum's converted garage. There was an upright piano, a sort of comfortable couch and shelves and shelves of books. We each had a half hour lesson. I always went first. I was terrible. Then I was allowed to read anything I wanted from the shelves. I couldn't take the book home with me but my favorite part of piano lessons was D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths.
 
 
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