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[Franklinbell]

@shoekitty Well said!!  I said I was going to go back and read a few other books!  I had forgotten about the ones you referenced.  I will be reading forever!  Which I think is a good thing!!

[Oznell]

So true, @Franklinbell ,  and @shoekitty .  Stage of life and maturity can make such a difference in how we perceive a book.

Another, lesser thing that can change your perspective, for me, is finding out more about the author's own life and how it relates to the novel.  When I first read Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises",  I knew little about his life in Paris, and how closely the plot and characters in "...Sun" tracked with his own bohemian, eventful existence there...  

[walkingal]

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@Franklinbell wrote:

Thanks to this story, I have decided to reread Wuthering Heights!  It has been a while, and I know that a movie is coming out. it shall be fun!

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That sounds nice!  Wuthering Heights was my favorite required reading novel in high school.  I love the 1939 movie version with Laurence Olivier.  

[LavernLuvsShoes]

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@walkingal wrote:

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Wuthering Heights was my favorite required reading novel in high school...

Mine too, (next to Les Miserables)

I loved the movie version that featured Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff 

[just bee]

And I say this, as an English major and current psychiatric nurse, because it will make a difference.

Please put down your phones, put down your kids' phones, pick up a book and read to them.

[Oznell]

@just bee ,  "Read Aloud" day falling on February 4th, what a nice tie-in to what these boys are doing.  My guess is that somebody read aloud to them when they were little...