Echoes of a book once read...

[llywela]

Sometimes something happens - something I notice, or a line I hear or read - that stirs the vaguest of memories of books that I once read, maybe many years ago. Sometimes this stirring dredges up a perfect memory of plot, title, author and all relevant details. However, more often than not, it...doesn't. Maybe I remember the basic outline, or maybe a particular character or line stood out, and this is what I remember. But the details of what the book was called, or who wrote it, are lost forever - and this means, of course, that I can never check the book to make sure that what I'm remembering is correct, or to reassure myself of some detail the lack of which nags away in the back of my mind like toothache. It is very frustrating.