Melanie Ifield's Blog: Writing with Illness - Posts Tagged "reading"
Do you re-read novels?
Are you in the habit of re-reading a novel that grabbed you?
Do you watch a TV show or a movie and just have to watch it all over again?
I was watching a movie I'd seen... well, let's not get into numbers of times or I might seem a little obsessed - let's just say, multiple times and be done with it!
Anyway, there I was watching it and it made me think: How does this movie make me feel and what makes it different to everything else I watch? Why do I go back to it?
And that took me on a journey to my favourite TV Shows and why I have seen them so many times I can quote the lines before the actors say them.
And lastly, I thought about all the novels I've read - over and over - like an addiction.
What is it about them that sticks? How come we can re-read some things countless times and not others?
I'd love to hear all about what you watch or read obsessively (just so I feel wonderfully like everyone else! :) ) but also - why?
I thought about it and for me, it is the meeting up of old friends.
Sure, I know what those friends are going to say and do (sometimes I really wish the characters would change their dialogue, but sadly, no!).
I know what is going to happen and still I'm on the edge of my seat, hoping they get out of it all okay.
And that's just it. A great read, or movie, or TV show, drags me into the world of the characters so well, so deftly, that I am left with an ache when I finish. I feel as though I've lost contact with vitally important friends and am bereft.
Do you feel the same way? Like you've lost people important to you when it's all over? And thus, are led back, to experience the highs, the lows and loves and losses once again? (And again and again ....)
For me, feeling engaged with the characters, wanting to know them, knowing that if they just happened, in some distant universe, to be real, they'd be exactly the sort of people I'd enjoy knowing - or at least want to be - that is what brings me back.
That and excellent writing. Both in the books I re-read compulsively and the TV shows I watch to unwind, the writing sparkles, and I think 'wow, now that's what I'm talking about!'
Do you watch a TV show or a movie and just have to watch it all over again?
I was watching a movie I'd seen... well, let's not get into numbers of times or I might seem a little obsessed - let's just say, multiple times and be done with it!
Anyway, there I was watching it and it made me think: How does this movie make me feel and what makes it different to everything else I watch? Why do I go back to it?
And that took me on a journey to my favourite TV Shows and why I have seen them so many times I can quote the lines before the actors say them.
And lastly, I thought about all the novels I've read - over and over - like an addiction.
What is it about them that sticks? How come we can re-read some things countless times and not others?
I'd love to hear all about what you watch or read obsessively (just so I feel wonderfully like everyone else! :) ) but also - why?
I thought about it and for me, it is the meeting up of old friends.
Sure, I know what those friends are going to say and do (sometimes I really wish the characters would change their dialogue, but sadly, no!).
I know what is going to happen and still I'm on the edge of my seat, hoping they get out of it all okay.
And that's just it. A great read, or movie, or TV show, drags me into the world of the characters so well, so deftly, that I am left with an ache when I finish. I feel as though I've lost contact with vitally important friends and am bereft.
Do you feel the same way? Like you've lost people important to you when it's all over? And thus, are led back, to experience the highs, the lows and loves and losses once again? (And again and again ....)
For me, feeling engaged with the characters, wanting to know them, knowing that if they just happened, in some distant universe, to be real, they'd be exactly the sort of people I'd enjoy knowing - or at least want to be - that is what brings me back.
That and excellent writing. Both in the books I re-read compulsively and the TV shows I watch to unwind, the writing sparkles, and I think 'wow, now that's what I'm talking about!'
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