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Lamps by day's avatar

This is such a fun idea - I'm surprised you would change your rankings so much even in hindsight (although can't object to a greater weighting for Wodehouse!)

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Elisabeth Grace Foley's avatar

I would and yet I wouldn't, if you know what I mean. The difficulty of trying to decide whether my "then" or "now" choices better deserved a spot on the list made me glad that it really is only possible to choose favorites with the knowledge you have at the moment, instead of the feelings of several different points in time all at once!

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Tony Dekker's avatar

I get this mostly with books I loved as teenager. Some are still good, while others are such utter rubbish!

And for books of a philosophical nature, I sometimes disagree violently with comments that a younger me wrote in the margins.

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Elisabeth Grace Foley's avatar

I didn't start keeping a record of what I read until I was out of my teens, so I am spared exact knowledge of what I thought was best during those years. 😃

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Hanna P's avatar

The older I get the less inclined I've come to rate books in the moment, just because there have been a few that I didn't particularly love fully when I first read them but then I find myself still thinking and mulling them over years down the line. This feels especially true of a lot of my assigned readings from college. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri would be one of these. I originally rated that collection of short stories three stars on Goodreads but six years later, I still regularly think about the stories in that collection and have gone on to actively seek out the rest of her short stories.

I've always loved your yearly book and movie lists. Found many a new favorite that way. :)

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