Do you remember the stories that you read?
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Another conversation posts for you guys ~ although iāve had the question in mind for quite a while now, it just got onto me to FINALLY write it.. š
Ā āLooks like iām as much as a āmood writerā than a mood reader, eh..-
Something that iāve been curious about, with the general blogger out there (not including me.. iām still a ābaby readerā somehow) that generally can read up to 100+ books a year, is do you guys actually remember all of thoses stories? Beside tracking which book you did read and whatnot with goodread or other means, can you remember the main storylines?
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When I was younger, and thus my selection of books less āopenā and broad, I tend to reread so much more often than I do nowadays.. which maybe did help with my memory, but I know that I could tell you the basic of the story within any book of my shelf. Or mostly.
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Since my mental health declined however, along with mon concentration and imagination, most of the stories went away with it too.. Thereās still a *couple* of thoses that I vaguely remember, either because iāve re-read it so much or because they had such an impact on me; like this ONE BOOK that I remember the ending troubling me so much, and I was possibly already in a bad phase then, that it left me with a urge to self-harm.. which I didnāt ! Stay reassured, but as it wasnāt even within that story, I have no idea how my brain had came to THAT š¤Ā I just remember a heavy āvoidā feeling..
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While not as perfect as I believe it was back then, I can probably give you basic story lines or little events that happened in the books iāve read that I remember.. which of course DISSAPEAR when I try to do a tag š¤£Ā Suddently, when I need to name a character with a certain behavior or circumstance, I canāt remember anything.
Sometimes iād read reviews of books and everything would mix in my head but Iād know I had read something along the same lines as the book iām reading the review for.. but couldnāt remember WHICH ONE.. so it does take me a while to pinpoint it.
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Do you remember the āmajorā part of the books you read?
For me, I feel like it really depends on the book and where I’m at with my life at that point in time. I know when I was reading a lot I had a little notebook where I took notes to help me remember things later when I went to write reviews.
Sometimes I might remember everything about books and others I’ll only remember snippets.
A sign that a book truly stood out to me is if it was something I couldn’t stop thinking about months or even years later. If a book really didn’t stand out as anything special to me, in either a positive or negative way I might remember vague details or be able to tell you I read it but not much else.
If I’m in a bad head space when I read something, regardless of how good it was, I might not remember it all that well.
I feel it’s similar to anything we consume regularly -be it food, television, or even conversations. Some things stick with us and others tend to go away, but the truly special moments tend to linger the longest.
Ohh yep, you have a very good point there- I agree.
Thereās still books that Ive read years ago that I randomly just go back to and wake up to think about them.
I think I remember the gist of the plot of the books I read, although it’s true that I too forget them when doing tags lol! Also, as a slow reader, I am in awe of people who can read 100 books a year. I can never do that!
Same! Although iāve seen a blogger (canāt remember who..) that was saying that when they hurried to finish a book, letās say for a readathon or something, theyād have no idea what the story was even about upon finishing it…
I have a really bad memory so while I can remember general outlines of books, a book has to be either an absolute favourite of mine or one that I’ve really intensively studied for me to remember it. There are those books that I will remember random parts of, and then there are others that are completely wiped from my memory a week after I finish it, but those are usually books that I didn’t really care for.
Fair enough.. I mean, we don’t really wanna remember books we haven’t liked anyway, right? š