Delayed Echoes

The love of repetition seems to be ingrained in children. And it is certainly ingrained in the way children learn to read — witness the joyous and maddening love of hearing that same bedtime book read aloud all over again, word for word, inflection for inflection.

I miss the days when discovering a new and amazingly good book was so special that I would spend hours savoring it, and re-reading it if it was a short book. But these days, my reading list has over 100 books on it, and I rarely ever go back to re-read a book anymore.