― Joshua Foer, quote from Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering EverythingīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, I couldn’t say whether I liked the book or not.” About Wuthering Heights I remember exactly two things: that I read it in a high school English class and that there was a character named Heathcliff. One Hundred Years of Solitude: I remember magical realism and that I enjoyed it. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience. If it’s fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it’s a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. “Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read.
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