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Time to re-read your favorites

I suppose all of us reading addicts re-read some of their much-loved favorites at one time or another. I am in the process of weeding out books that I own but have never read, and, in the process, have decided to re-read some that I've read & have kept (I normally give away a book when I'm done with it, unless it is speaks to me that it deserves a place on my bookshelf). Right now, I'm re-reading the "In Death" series by JD Robb. As I am finished, I'm either donating the book to the library's used book sale, or donating directly to my local library, as they are missing a few of the books in the series. I've also picked up some Daniel Silva books at a library book sale and will be re-reading the Gabriel Allon series (love that series). Just wondered if you guys ever re-read a much-loved favorite. Happy Reading to you all!!

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Re: Time to re-read your favorites

I read To Kill a Mockingbird and The Country of the Pointed Firs every summer and Two Old Women every winter. I have such a hard time getting rid of books, but I do box them up for our library. 

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Re: Time to re-read your favorites

@joannechaEvery year my book club devotes one month to rereading something from our past.  We've read The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Of Mice and Men and more. 

 

In addition, I myself have been culling my books this summer as I work to make space in my new, smaller apartment where even a few books gone makes a difference.  Since May I've read and donated or even discarded the equivalent of one entire shelf of oldies. I have yet to figure out why I can't just give up books I haven't touched for years, but I can't.

 

Almost all summer I've had 2 books going at once -  one new to me and one reread.  Great fun!

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Re: Time to re-read your favorites

Valide: A Novel of the Harem by Barbara Chase-Riboud

 

I re-read this book about every 10 yrs.

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Re: Time to re-read your favorites

Fun topic. I just bought myself a collection of all 6 original Charlie Chan mysteries for my iPad.

As I looked for them, I found a book written ABOUT the Charlie Chan series, and bought that too.

I was a HUGE fan of the Charlie Chan movie series when I was VERY little kid, and the book delves into a lot of interesting facts about those. There were many more movies than the original mysteries, which were written by Earl Derr Biggers in the late '20's.

The books are enjoyable and entertaining reading, and also offer a lovely glimpse of pre-tourist Hawaii. 

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Re: Time to re-read your favorites

I re-read Frederick Forsythe's "The Day of the Jackal" every year. It's one of my favorite books.

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Re: Time to re-read your favorites

I have never re-read a book and I am an avid reader. Then last week I decided to re-read a series that I love The Agatha Raisn cozy mystery series by MC Beaton. I am waiting on her new release to come out next month and I have to say I am enjoying the books even more this time around as it has been years since I read a lot of them and I am discovering things that I feel like I missed the first time around!

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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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Re: Time to re-read your favorites

in the winter i turn to Jane Austen's novels -  and every few years i re-read Josephine Tey's "Daughter of Time" , a mystery  about Richard the III.  

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Re: Time to re-read your favorites

@gardenman, I loved that one (The Day of the Jackal) as well.  Good idea to pull it out again.  Years since I read that.  I think The Eiger Sanction is another one I loved.  LM