Book Club

[SWEET]

Would you believe I've never re-read a book in my life?  There are too many out there I want to read to go back and read my favorites.  I do have favorites but would never re-read them.

[libbyannE]

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@libbyannE wrote:

About once a year, I reread Barbara Pym's Excellent Women. I don't read fiction very often, but I love this classic book. The first time I read it many years ago, I didn't "get" Pym's style. The second time I read it, I got into it and found it interesting and amusing sing. By the third time, I was laughing out loud at a couple of passages, really cared about the central character, and had gotten into Pym's richly detailed slice-of-life approach to storytelling. 

Just about every winter, I reread at least a couple of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, The Hard Winter and On Silver Lake, which I first read in 3rd grade. I made a pilgrimage to South Dakota in the early 1970s to see those sites, and it was a thrill. After that, the schmaltzy little house tv series came on, and i understand the town built a museum and other things on the Ingalls homestead site. Too bad. When my husband and I were there, it was serene and undisturbed. No one else was there! The trees that "Pa" planted around the house were still there, marking where the house had been. I lay in the tall grass, look at vistas the Ingalls family would have seen, walked around, listened to the constant breezes through the grasses, and I simply reveled in being in a place that had so grabbed my imagination and heart when I as a child. We went to ma and pa's house in town, to their graves, and spent a lot of time in the surveyor' s house in which the family spent their first winter in what became DeSmet. We walked up that wide Main Street, imagining cutter rides and races up and down the snow-covered street on winter days back in the 1880s. No wonder I live on a rural Midwestern lake now!

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Sorry. I'm now was in a rush. The second Wilder book is By The Shores of Silver Lake.

[Big Sister]

"Atlas Shrugged" is my all-time favorite book and it's time for me to read it again.  I have read it twice before and that was about 20 years ago.

[kitty45]

@gardenman Fredrick Forsythe is one author I tend to re-read.  ken Follett & Tom Clancy too.

[sue bee]

Years ago I reread Little Woman and recently I reread twice already the 4 books in the Nora Roberts book set of her Chespeake Bay series. Love those books.  Each book focuses on a diffrerent Quinn brother and their drama and finding love. The story about what really happened to their father and the trouble from the younger one's biological mom continues through all 4 books.

[jaxs mom]

I reread fairly often. If I don't have another book I feel like I reading I'll reread a favorite. I have a collection on my kindle called favorites that are books I'll reread. 

Books I've reread include

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

The Mists of Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Twiight series by Stephenie Meyers

The Change series by SM Sterling

Jane Fairfax series by Michael Thomas Ford

Earth's Children series by Jean Auel

Pride and Prejudice

The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundareson

Wodan's Children series by Diana Paxson

The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Pilate's Wife by Antointette May

Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger

Finishing School series by Gail Carriger

Custard Protocol series by Gail Carriger

[Marsha2003]

There are times when I want to read something, but I don't want to or have time to start a new book.  That's when I'll dip into an old favorite.  Often, I don't re-read cover to cover, but rather read just the parts I like best.  I love having e-books of some of my favorites.  I wish e-readers had been around for my whole life.

[pinkcoyote]

I bought, second hand, every Patrick O'Brian books.  These books are about Man-of-War type ships and pirateers (not pirates). Love these sea faring books. I am re-reading tham right now all twenty-some LOL

[chihuahuamom]

I read all the Mary Stewart, Phyliss Whitney, and Victoria Holt books in my early years.  Always loved the romance and suspense. I would love to go back and re-read some of them-especially Victoria Holt. I think the first book of hers I read was Mistress of Mellyn.  I was a teenager. Back then when you checked out a book, you went to the librarian to do it. I think she thought I was checking out a dirty book!!! She reluctantly checked it out to me. Hilarious!

I also discovered Madeleine Brent's (Peter O'Donnel) books many years ago.  She/He wrote about 6 or 7 books as that name. Wonderful stories of young heroines in exotic locations struggling with their stories which were mysterious and romantic (always a handsome man in the picture).My favorite was Moonraker's Bride, but they are all good.  It's hard to find them now.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

I re-read The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon, it is one of my most favorite books. i also re-read two Danielle Steele books called Malice and A Long Way Home.......I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 again!