What are some of the books or author’s you reread or revisit?
What are some of the books or author’s you reread or revisit?
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What are some of the books or author’s you reread or revisit?
I’ve read Jane Eyre every few years, and when Kurt Vonnegot and Terry Pratchett died I reread a bunch of their books…
we’re reading Harry Potter to Bea at bedtime, and it’s really fun! It’s 90% for our enjoyment and 10% for hers, since I don’t think she cares what it is we’re actually reading.
I started reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to Teddy, who tolerates it because I have a giant illustrated copy with amazing photographs in it from an old BBC series (I think?) It’s certainly too grown up for him but he doesn’t seem to mind because he’s mostly falling asleep, haha
I did the same thing with my son and The Phantom Tollbooth! Can’t wait to start Harry Potter with him.
I reread Pride and Prejudice and Franny and Zooey pretty much every year minimum. I’ve read Agatha Christie’s biography a couple times, along with a few of her mysteries. I’ve never read Jane Eyre, so sounds like should do so!
Jane Eyre was my grandmother’s favorite novel– I recently inherited her copy and am looking for a book restorer, actually because it’s pretty tattered (from 1907 I think). I feel like part of the reason I’ve never attached fully to Jane Austin was because I read JE first. There’s also this amazing book called The Wide Sargasso Sea that you’ll need to read after JE.
Ha – I’ve actually read Wide Sargasso Sea.
I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird and started the “new” Harper Lee novel, Go Set a Watchman.
– Watership Down
– The latter two Bas-Lag books by China Mieville
– Steel Beach by John Varley
– I’ve reread The Goblin Emperor at least twice now and I JUST bought it
I’ve discovered that I also cherrypick scenes from books to which I return over and over:
– The Eschaton game in Infinite Jest
– The big infodump sections in Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels
– The Lord of the Rings minus almost everything before the Council of Elrond and the places Gollum appears
Watership Down AND Infinite Jest are also on my list. Gah.
But do you reread, like, ALL of Infinite Jest? Even I don’t do that!
Oh no – I mean I haven’t read either yet and need to.
I haven’t read Watership Down since I was in school. Those bunnies haunted me for years. Maybe I should give it another try as an adult. 😉
Oh, and I also read The Waste Land probably almost monthly? Is that obsession..? I was just listening to a recording Eliot made of it.
The Great Gatsby. Also certain parts of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Great Gatsby, Franny and zooey, a wrinkle in time, beautiful losers (Leonard Cohen), generation x
Emma, Pride & Prejudice, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Sherlock Holmes, Microserfs, Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
Jane Austen, Tolkien, any Ondaatje…and Middlemarch!
Oh how I love Ondaatje — Running in the Family is one of my desert island reads.
@Guinevere YES! And Anil’s Ghost…masterpieces.
So, I’m not as much of a classics sort of girl, and I’m a hopeless romantic. I have reread my twilight books. They were such an escape to read when my dad was terribly ill and my marriage wasn’t at it’s best point. I love to reread The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, and Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers.
Have you read The Time Traveller’s Wife? Leaves me in puddles every time.
no. I should!!
It’s a serious tear-jerker but it’s as romantic as it gets!
I am a total romance person as well. I admit to rereading my Twilight books too. I started reviewing for a romance blog last year so I am fully immersed in romance right now. After many years reviewing for paranormal and urban fantasy blogs, I’m quite enjoying the change.
I don’t tend to reread books very often—there are always so many new ones on my list. But there are definitely authors I go back to again and again. I love almost everything by Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami, Julian Barnes, early Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy, his essays for the Polysyllabic Spree… his later novels notsomuch), and the short stories of Grace Paley and Flannery O-Connor.
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger. And I have reread some of Bill Bryson because he makes me laugh…or at least smile a lot. And I recently reread Voltaire’s Candide because I remember loving it decades ago. Many, many decades.
I am enjoying reading books with my boys, it’s like reconnecting with an old friend. They are only 1 though so haven’t branched out into anything too adventurous. We are re reading the Miraculous journey of Edward Tulane right now.