Rereading Like the Dickens?
Steve has a whole shelf of Dickens, and a whole bookcase of classics. I... don't . Every December Steve rereads A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.* He started doing it long before we met ("Since the late 80s, early 90s, I guess", he says). Whenever I comment on his commitment to this seasonal reread with amazement, he says something like "It's not a long book," and leaves it at that. The thing is, I rarely reread anything. Even many of the books on my favourites list are ones I've read only once, or twice at best. The biggest exceptions are the books I kept returning to as a kid, like The Velveteen Rabbit and Where the Red Fern Grows , but aside from Charlotte's Web even most of my childhood favourites haven't been reread in adult-hood. So. As illustrated by the talented Walt Sturrock. WaltSturrock.com This past December I read A Christmas Carol too. Of course I knew the story from many adaptations but I thought I was rea