Reading or rereading?

[Paul]

There are so many new books to read but there are special books which it is also a pleasure to reread. I have just reread The Lord of the Rings which I read for the first time when I was 16 in 1979. Not only was it good to return to a story which did so much to shape my youthful imagination but I also recognised the different knowledge and perspective I brought to reading it 40 odd years later.

What books have other group members enjoyed rereading?

[J.L.]

My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell. I first read it when I was in hospital at the age of 20, and even then it made me laugh!

[Paul]

That's a book that sat on the edge of my consciousness for many years. I need to get down to reading it!

[Rosemarie]

I've read and reread The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit a number of times.
The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables -twice.

I'm a big fan of vintage British mysteries and have reread the works of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, just to name two.

[Anna]

I just reread Pride and Prejudice, trying to go through Jane Austen again.
I haven't done a lot of rereads this year, but I have picked up several books that I had started but never finished, Little Women, The Old Man and the Sea, and Love in the Time of Cholera were all DNFs before but I can now say that I have read them.