someone take away the books I've already read

     I am the worst. I have started reading two books other than An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, the book I was already reading and not even halfway through, in the past week. Started rereading actually. 

     In my defense, there is a movie adaptation of The Secret Garden coming out this year and I would like to reread the book before then anyway. I was also thinking about when we answered the question about rereading books in class and a couple of people mentioned rereading a book they liked as a child and realizing it wasn’t actually that good. So I kind of want to make sure that I still like The Secret Garden, because I was worried that perhaps I was going to reread it and find it problematic because it was written in, like, 1911, but it is not terrible. That sounds bad. There are some questionable things but I think even the author knows they are questionable, if that makes sense. I’m a few chapters into it and while I know what’s going to happen, I’m still very excited for the rest of the book, so it seems that it is going to remain my favorite, by far, classic. If I needed to explain why I like it so much, it would probably be the escapism of it. It just has this beautiful childlike wonder and amazement in it; it depicts the way a child might view the world through the eyes of a child that is basically relearning how to be a kid, so reading it from an older perspective makes me want to sit outside and stare at everything like it’s the first time. In the book, a lonely girl makes friends and, spoiler, finds a secret garden to hang out in. I mean, how is that not the best type of thing to insert yourself into? 

     But then last night I wanted to read but I didn’t feel like reading The Secret Garden so I picked up Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson, which I have read before but I absolutely do not remember at all. I remember liking it when I finished and wondering why I hadn’t heard anyone talking about it and now of course there’s a sequel and everyone is talking about THAT. But I literally did not remember anything about the first one; I could not have described a single thing about the plot other than it’s a mystery. So I have to reread it. I cannot be blamed. It must happen. So far, this is also a good self insert story because it’s about this school full of unique and fun people and the school is based on learning as a game and it’s how I wish my high school experience was.

     I should probably stop rereading things.