A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile

[Sara Grace]

In order to not re-read too much, I went with The Annotated Pride and Prejudice. It was a great option to re-read while also learning and reading something new.

[Anshita]

Nadine wrote: "Anshita wrote: "Carrie wrote: "I hold Little Women near and dear to my heart. I was thinking to pick this book for the prompt as well. Such a special story. I just finished March for another prompt..."

Thanks, Nadine. I would like to read March (if only I could find an ebook for it).

[Novalynda]

I've read Het wisselkasteel by Diana Wynne Jones for this prompt.

[Anne]

I'm either going for comic books like Astérix et Obélix, or Mathilda or with Alle Sieben Wellen (Love Virtually) which is really funny. I read it last year as my first book in German to practice and I wonder if I would get more out of it this time around. Plus it's a quick read.

[Elyse]

I'm so excited to re-read Ella Enchanted!! Haven't read it in over 10 years but read it many times when I was younger!

[Elyse]

Rebecca wrote: "The last couple of years, whenever I've done a reading challenge that requires me to reread something I've read before, I will grab the audiobook and listen to it in my car to and from work. I've d..."

That's a great idea, it's like a fresh take on the book!

[Chinook]

I used to reread so often but I do less of it now. My original plan was to read Emily of New Moon but then I watched Rogue One and it made me want to reread Heir to the Empire and the rest of the Thrawn trilogy.

[Shirley (stampartiste)]

I am not one to re-read books, but what came to mind for this challenge were the French board books (Tintin and Asterix) I grew up reading, even into my twenties. I wish we had books like this in America. They were awesome. So the book that I will be re-reading is one in the Asterix series: Asterix and Cleopatra. It always made me laugh.

[Deb]

Nadine wrote: "poshpenny wrote: "Anna wrote: "Sometimes I need a refresher before picking up the next book in a series (WHY is there no "previously" section in books like there is on TV?)"

This is where Wikipedi..."

Reading through this thread and saw your post. This is when I wish Goodreads had a "Love" button! Thanks for The Recaptains link.

[CC]

Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls is go to for this category. It's a great one for reading aloud to kids. It's one of my family's favorites. Rawls wrote Where the Red Fern Grows which is so tragic. Summer of the Monkeys is the opposite. ❤

[Emanuel]

I did'nt this prompt, I never re-read a book, only in another language, for this, and because is a number of a big series for kids and teenagers, I readUma Aventura na Amazónia, one more recent of the series.

[Kirsten]

I read Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers. It's the Lord Peter Wimsey story where Lord Peter and his love and new bride Harriet find a body on their honeymoon.

I'd read it before, but I read it again in preparation of watching the play in Seattle. Great fun with Lord Peter!

[Lu]

I'm going full controversy here by reading a fanfic. It's not a book as it was never printed, but it's pretty long for a fic, (169k words) and it never fails in making me smile, so I'm making it count. Sue me! LOL

[Pioup]

Luciana wrote: "I'm going full controversy here by reading a fanfic. It's not a book as it was never printed, but it's pretty long for a fic, (169k words) and it never fails in making me smile, so I'm making it co..."
All's fair in love and reading challenges.

[Christy]

I've been trying to avoid rereading for the past few years, so this category was always going to be a challenge for me. I finally settled on reading a new book by an author who makes me smile--Lauren Willig. It's not the exact category, but I'm happy with the compromise, and it was fun to see some of the same characters from her other books again. :-)

[Lindsey]

Christy wrote: "I've been trying to avoid rereading for the past few years, so this category was always going to be a challenge for me. I finally settled on reading a new book by an author who makes me smile--Laur..."

I like this. I may do this. I am reading a third from a series that I have started reading due to this challenge that I would have NEVER read before hand and absolutely love it. I only have 8 books left to read and have already read 51 books this year. This is starting to stress me out, so I am happy with your idea. In my head the wording will be from an author that makes you smile.

[Nadine in NY]

I also don't like to re-read, but for me the biggest benefit of doing the challlenges is being stretched in directions I usually avoid. Thanks to the challenge, I've discovered that an occasional re-read can be very nice, especially when it's been more than 20 years since I read it the first time. You forget a lot in 20 or 30 years! :-)

[Edie]

I am also in the don't like reread camp. My suggestion for this is to read/reread a favorite (smile inducing) children's book to a child, grandchild, niece or friend's child. Children love to have books reread and reread, so please a child, check this off.
Actually, I reread The Nest for this challenge, since my book club was reading it and although I had read it last year, I didn't remember it well enough to think I would be able to intelligently participate in the discussion.

[Nancy]

Since it's now October and I have about 20 tasks yet to complete between this and the Book Riot challenge, I'm looking for ways to make progress without "cheating." I remembered that I had recently picked up a book from my shelves that would fit this challenge. It's a book of photos of cats paired with witty short poems called "I am the cat, don't forget that: feline expressions." The photographer is Valerie Shaff, and the text is by Roy Blount Jr.
Cats and clever wordplay? Definitely a combination that makes me smile!

[Jaime]

I am a biology geek. So I am planning to read Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease. It's a book that I read a few years ago to come up with cool examples of human evolution that I could use in class. Things like-why is diabetes more prevalent in northern European populations and their descendants? Why do some people feel so much better physically after donating blood? I loved this book then and I am pretty sure I am going to love this book now. :-)

[Brandy]

Oooh, I loved Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. If I weren't behind I would totally do that. I might still.

But right now I'm thinking of I am a Pole by Stephen Colbert which is narrated by Tom Hanks and delightful and absolutely minutes long.

I loathe rereading. I've reared all the Potter books a few times and I reread A Christmas Carol every year but I'm not sure it makes me smile... oh, wait, it totally does.

“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.”

This slayed me at 12 and slays me even now. So maybe this. I read it every year anyway.