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Today's Topic is . . . books I'd like to reread
I don't really like to reread.
There are so many books to read, all brand new to me!
So I can't see the sense of reading books again.
I've only reread a few of my favorite books.
1. Jane Eyre
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. The Hobbit
4. Quietly My Captain Waits
5. Wuthering Heights
For some reason these books evoke in me a sense of "home"
and occassionally I will get homesick to hear their words,
feel the language once more.
Recently I've been hearing these books calling out to me from my past
6. Green Darkness
7. Rebecca
8. The Captive Queen of Scotts
And more recently I've made friends with some new titles that feel like
I will possibly revisit them sometime in the future
9. The Book Thief
10. The Secret Life of Bees
But the book I most often reread--in fact I begin it the day after I stop reading it--is
The Book of Mormon
I think I've read this book at least 30 times
Today's Teaser comes from the Graveyard Book by Niel Gaimon
"It was a perfect spring day, and the air was alive with birdsong and bee hum. The daffodils bustled in the breeze and here and there on the side of the hill a few early tulips nodded. A blue powdering of forget-me-nots and fine, fat yellow primroses pnctuated the green of the slope as the two children walked up the hill toward the Frobishers' little mausoleum."
location 3697 on my kindle
19 comments:
Very descriptive!My teaser comes from a Georgette Heyer novel.
After women's conf on Sat. forget-me-nots are now my favorite flower. Comes from your number 1 book being mine as well. Great teaser. Mine's here if you like to check it out: http://letsbookit.blogspot.com
Oh that's a lovely teaser fulll of imagery.
I love to reread because I get to visit my favorite characters and world over and over. But, I understand about there being so many books out there that are new to me to read.
I'm rereading the Book of Mormon too. Next year, I'll read the OT from beginning to the end. Then, I'll pick up the BoM again. I like to read it every other year so I can read another set of scriptures during the off years.
I like your list of favorite re-reads. It's a good list to choose from. There is something very comforting and inspirational about re-reading your favorite religious text. I agree with you.
Margot from Quirky Girls Read
A lovely teaser from a book I loved, and what a wonderful list of potential re-reads. I'm increasingly drawn back to classics and childhood favourites, both to enjoy the familiarity and to see whether reading at a different stage of life makes a difference.
I've only read 2 of the books on your list.
Great teaser!
We have a couple of overlapping books -- "The Hobbit" and "The Book Thief." I am not LDS but have read parts of the Book of Mormon as well, for a comparative religion class in college!
Neil is just brilliant! I love his writing!
Stop by to check mine out at a UnRead Brains Eat Bloody Words
Black Disaster Fairy
great teaser and list! thanks for stopping by my blog :)
I'd love to reread The Lord of the Rings, too, but I held it over for my "Books I'd love to read again for the first time" list. I'd love to fall in love with them all over again. ;-)
Your book posts always make me think. I've read so many and there are many that I loved but I want to read so many others that rereading one I've read, for me, would take me from experiencing a new one.
Your teaser is perfect, as always, well done!
Oh, heck yes to Jane Eyre!
And definitely to the Book of Mormon...I had no idea you were LDS...so am I :)
I really enjoyed The Graveyard Book. That would be on my list of re-reads. The Book Thief as well. Such beautiful, evocative writing.
-jehara
I've reread only a handful of books. The Shadow of the Wind is one I might re-read. And I loved The Book Thief.
I really like the breakdown of your list. I don't often re-read either, but I always really like it when I do.
Come visit my list at The Scarlet Letter.
I read The Lord of the Rings trilogy and just couldn't get into it. I liked The Hobbit much better and would be more likely to re-read it. Thanks for sharing your list!
I definitely plan on rereading The Book Thief one day too. I like your description that rereading a book is like coming home.
I'm with Jenners - beautifully said - that revisiting one of my favorites such as To Kill A Mockingbird or The Sound And The Fury is indeed because I am homesick for their words and the language feels like the return of an old friend.
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