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A review by michael5000
The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith
4.0
2016 -- I think this is my favorite entry to date in the "modern middlebrow fiction set against a backdrop of Golden Age Dutch Master Art" genre.
2022 -- A surprising and mildly alarming aspect of my longstanding re-reading project is how little you sometimes remember about books you've read. Not only did I not recall the scenario and plot of this book, I didn't even remember its nature correctly. The upside is that, having misremembered it as tiresome fluff, I got the pleasant surprise of revisiting a good novel! And, although I began to recall the liniments once I got going, I wasn't able to anticipate events.
Now, it's possible that this will turn out to be the sad, sad little review where my memory loss issues were visible for the first time, but I don't think so. I think this is weirdly normal -- that everybody remembers less about books, even books that they quite like, than they think they do.
2022 -- A surprising and mildly alarming aspect of my longstanding re-reading project is how little you sometimes remember about books you've read. Not only did I not recall the scenario and plot of this book, I didn't even remember its nature correctly. The upside is that, having misremembered it as tiresome fluff, I got the pleasant surprise of revisiting a good novel! And, although I began to recall the liniments once I got going, I wasn't able to anticipate events.
Now, it's possible that this will turn out to be the sad, sad little review where my memory loss issues were visible for the first time, but I don't think so. I think this is weirdly normal -- that everybody remembers less about books, even books that they quite like, than they think they do.