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The Moor's Last Sigh
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This is a catastrophe!
I didn't add a review when I finished reading The Moor's Last Sigh, thus depriving myself of the only relatively secure method of remembering a Salman Rushdie novel in detail. Well, maybe not detail, but at least in broad strokes.
As it is now, my empty brain will have to reread instead of just quickly checking what I hoped would be a gushing review matching the stars.
The Reader's Last Sigh! To be reread, a quixotic quest for lost memory of reading pleasure past.
I didn't add a review when I finished reading The Moor's Last Sigh, thus depriving myself of the only relatively secure method of remembering a Salman Rushdie novel in detail. Well, maybe not detail, but at least in broad strokes.
As it is now, my empty brain will have to reread instead of just quickly checking what I hoped would be a gushing review matching the stars.
The Reader's Last Sigh! To be reread, a quixotic quest for lost memory of reading pleasure past.
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Finished Reading
June 24, 2014
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August 10, 2014
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March 10, 2018
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Sep 08, 2019 04:02PM
Writing a review definitely does help to jog the memory of a book, doesn't it. I hope you enjoy your second reading as much as the first. I haven't read this one of his.
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Eleanor wrote: "Writing a review definitely does help to jog the memory of a book, doesn't it. I hope you enjoy your second reading as much as the first. I haven't read this one of his."At least you don't have to blame yourself for not knowing what it is about! I increasingly see that as a major plus in books I definitely haven't read...
Oh no. Catastrophe indeed. If you don't want to create manual backups of each review, GR does have a very low-tech export function. It doesn't look pretty, but you get the raw text, which you can then tidy up elsewhere:
Cecily wrote: "Oh no. Catastrophe indeed. If you don't want to create manual backups of each review, GR does have a very low-tech export function. It doesn't look pretty, but you get the raw text, which you can..."
Ah, that's something I will have to do! Imagine losing my GR outsourced memory...
I should have added that that won't save the comments, but at least you'll have the reviews.Personally, I write my reviews in Google Docs or Word, copy them to GR, and save them in a handful of long, alphabetic Word docs.
The passage of time can dull the feelings one had about a book - either good or bad ones. However, it is always good to go back and revist a book that you thought was either brilliant or bad, just to see if your feelings remain the same or if they have changed over time. I found that I still really like those books I loved in the past. Lots of reading over the years has made me appreciate things I used to dislike - I can see the skill or better understand what the writier is trying to do.
I am starting to write my own reviews also. I find Onenote, free from Microsoft, quite an ideal tool for keeping them all together, while being able to sync on any device, the cloud, and easily share with friends.
