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Now, here's a strange phenomenon. I am a member of our local reading group and, just last month, we read "The Apothecary's House" by Adrian Mathews which is just over 700 pages long. After I had finished it, I opened my journal where I keep a record of all the books I read and I was astonished to discover that I had read the same book for the same reading group in 2011. l genuinely had no recollection whatsoever of any aspect of this book - the setting, the characters, the storyline - nothing.

A couple of days later, I phoned a friend who is also a member of the same reading group. When I told her that I couldn't remember having read the book before, she was as surprised as I was. She didn't remember it either.

Very strange.

Very Twilight Zone Maggie. However I have read books that I have read before and forgotten about them!

Me too. My memory is not what it was.

Normally about twenty minutes into a film or a couple of chapters into a book. Then there is a discussion with my better half as to whether we have or have not seen the film; before realising we have, by which time it's too late to start another.

I've definitely had a sense of deja vu a few chapters into what I thought was a new book but that turns out to be a re-read!

I read reviews on here, written by myself, and still have no idea about anything in the book!!!

It's okay. Unless the book in question is one you wrote yourself....

Jane wrote: "It's okay. Unless the book in question is one you wrote yourself...."

LOL!

I'm rereading a series I originally read in 2012. Bits of it seem familiar, but quite a lot of it doesn't!

It's great being able to read a much-loved crime thriller (or see it on TV) and not know whodunnit. So long as it's a good read.

Well this whole thread makes me feel so much better about my literary memory lapses! I'm not the only one, thank goodness! haha