Re-read books you once loved; a whole new experience awaits

Teresa Lynn Gallegos
Nov 5 · 4 min read

You know a book is truly worthy if you can re-read it years or decades later and receive new insight.

Recently, I decided to purge my bookshelves of any tomes that I didn’t love. Some books were easy to exile, but I had to re-read others to find out if they were worthy of space on my shelf by testing to see if they were worthy still of space in my heart.

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Teresa Lynn Gallegos

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Former teacher, present writer, future author

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