One reason I keep this journal, however infrequently, is to avoid re-reading. However, sometimes the act is deliberate.
The boy poured through the three volumes of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, and returns to them often. So, to keep up, I re-read The Golden Compass. Now when quizzed about my favorite parts or characters, I’ll have one less excuse for a faulty memory. I don’t have the free time of a seven-year-old, but this story never drags, and the interesting language never loses the reader. I do wonder how the boy interprets all the religious (and anti-religion) themes. From what he’s said before, he skipped it. Fine by me.