Again and Again and Again

[Lynai]

I have re-read a few books:

LIGHTNING by Dean Koontz
THE HIDING PLACE by Corrie Ten Boom
HINDS' FEET ON HIGH PLACES by Hannah Hurnhard

[Ronnie]

Kids fantasy are the best to re-read when I'm in the mood - the familiarity is a draw, and knowing what happens makes them easy, quick and enjoyable. Mostly The Chronicles of Narnia, Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet, all the HP books of course, His Dark Materials Trilogy (not really kids, though). John Marsden's
Tomorrow, When The War Began series. Of course, The Hobbit.

Breakfast at Tiffany's; High Fidelity; The Time Traveler's Wife; How I Live Now;

All the Sherlock Holmes - great to pick up and just reread one or two stories when I'm in the mood. I've usually forgotten the ending which is helpful!

I have read and reread all of these ad nauseum. Ahh old faves, how lovely.

[Donitello]

Somebody please please stop me before I read PRIDE AND PREJUDICE again....

[Laura]

I hear you, but I don't want to be stopped! That's the book I would actually like to LIVE in !

[Laura]

Wow - how many episodes?

(Sounds like my kind of series! I wanna move to England!!!)

[Michelle]

Jane Austen

Harry Potter

Where the Red Fern Grows

[[deleted user]]

Hello all, new book addict here, but severely limited by what I can find and afford here in Italy. Re-reading is a pleasure and a necessity:

The Secret Garden - my first repeat book, given to me for my 8th? 9th? birthday; it stayed in my Aunt's house (where we spent the summers) so I read it every summer for about 10 years.

The Lord Peter Wimsey novels/stories by Dorothy Sayers. They never get old.

The Mary Russell series by Laurie King. Lots of fun, well written, "willing suspension of disbelief" all the way.

Essays by Stephen Jay Gould - they never get old either.

To Kill a Mockingbird - what can I say, the all time best book.

Happy reading, Hayes

[Jeane]

I read Italy in Hayes post.....hayes does it mean you are in Italy?

[Jensownzoo]

Any book that doesn't thrill me enough to re-read, I give away right after finishing it to provide space to all the books that did make the "cut". I have a lot of books...

I think one of the reasons that I like to re-read is my terrible memory. I can remember that I liked a book, may even remember most of the plot, but a lot of the details are lost. I get almost as much enjoyment out of re-reading a book as I do the first time I read it! And those that I do remember a great deal about are generally books that are favorites and have re-read times beyond counting.

[Marsha]

I agree Jen. I rarely watch movies again, but if I love a book, a re-read is definitely in the future. I'd say any 4-5 star book is worth my time again.

[[deleted user]]

Jeane: Yes, I live in Italy.
Saved by Grace: It's a sort of Gothic novel for kids - young orphan girl gets sent to an English country house where, among other adventures, she learns to look after herself and her garden. I haven't read it in so long I can't remember the details... might have to read it for the 20th time!!

[Jeane]

Ciao Hayes, did you go to the newbie corner and tell a bit about yourself? It's a great way to find out who the people are we are writing to...

[[deleted user]]

no i didn't, jeane, but I will, subito!

[Mary]

"Rebecca" & "Jane Eyre". I don't know what it is about those books!

[Nicole]

I haven't yet, but the Twilight series and The Time Traveler's Wife.

[Jen]

I usually don't reread books, there are too many on my shelves I haven't gotten to yet... the one I read and went right back to the beginning to reread was 'Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates', it was just... well, fun! I guess I did reread 'The Island of the Blue Dolphins' a few years back as I hadn't read it since I was young and I was feeling nostaglic.

[Jaime]

I read The Catcher in the Rye and The Things They Carried every couple years.

I will probably re-read the Harry Potters @ some point also...

[Cheryl S.]

Every summer:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Tanamara
The Wheel of Fortune
Forever France

Multiple times:

The Outlander Series
All of Pat Conroy
Martha Grimes mysteries (Richard Jury)
James Lee Burke mysteries
All of Leon Uris--especially Exodus, Trinity and Redemption
Dorothea Benton Frank
Ann Rivers Siddons

At least twice:

Way too many to remember. I tend to do a lot of rereading in the summer--not sure why.

[Kathy]

Lori, you bring up a good point about reading the same book at different times or ages in one's life. Not just appreciating a book more can occur, but we bring different things from our own life to a book at different times and ages, so that we glean different things from the book. For example, reading Roald Dahl as a child is highly entertaining, but reading him as an adult is both entertaining and enlightening.

[Jeane]

That is so true Kathy.

[Petra X]

I love Wind in the Willows. My son used to put a tea-towel on his head and wander round the house saying he was Toad dressed up as a washerwoman when he was little. It was one of our favourite books.

[Southernbelle0326]

The books that I will re-read again and again and again are

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE-JANE AUSTEN (read it twice already)
IT AINT ALL ABOUT THE COOKING-PAULA DEEN
FANCY PANTS-CATHY MARIE HAKE
SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN-LISA SEE
CANDLE IN THE DARKNESS-LYNN AUSTIN
FIRE BY NIGHT-LYNN AUSTIN
THE HARRY POTTER SERIES
GARDEN SPELLS-SARAH ALLEN
WIDOW OF THE SOUTH-ROBERT HICKS

[Jeane]

Southernbelleo, I have the same thing with pride and prejudice. read it twice I think but would just reread it now.