Reading and Re-Reading

[rj_anderson]

[Crossposted from Tumblr, because I never seem to post anything here otherwise...]

 

Never mind all the books on your To Be Read shelf, because who knows why you’re reading them or if they’re going to be any good. I want to know what’s on your To Be Re-Read shelf — the books you loved so much you’re planning to revisit them for the second, third, or mumbletyseventh time.

 

My TBRR shelf right now consists of:

• Till We Have Faces, Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
• The Golden Key and Other Stories and The Lost Princess by George MacDonald
• The Dragon With a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis (published hardcover, previously read in manuscript)
• Something Dark and Holy by Emily A. Duncan (still in manuscript, but final draft -- to be published in 2019)

And I’m also re-reading Elizabeth E. Wein’s The Sunbird aloud to my youngest son.

 

What’s in your TBRR pile lately, if you have one?

Comments

[rj_anderson]

It's the re-reads I want to know about! Is Words Are My Business a re-read, or is there other LeGuin in your re-read pile?

I read Scythe and Thunderhead last week. As I discovered when I read Unwind a few years ago, Shusterman is brilliant, but agh, MY HEART.

And I am so glad you loved Dragon!

[miladygrey]

Words are My Business is not a reread, I did not know it existed until someone (Jo Walton on Tor, maybe?) mentioned it, and I lunged for the Place Hold button on my library page. I also want to reread The Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven, and my husband is rereading the Earthsea books. Other rereads poking at me gently are Alison Croggon's Pellinor series, Diana Wynne Jones' Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Lisa Mason's Summer of Love, and Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana. But library books take precedence...

I saw there were more books in the Unwind series, but the first one shook me so badly I couldn't bring myself to read them. So I read Scythe instead. As you said, MY HEART.

[rj_anderson]

Earthsea is on my re-read list as well, although not until I get through the ones I have piled up on my bedside table already. I have so many beloved books that I re-read every few years, I have to rotate them. :)

And yes on UNWIND. That scene, you know the one, where it's about a million times worse for what is NOT said as what actually is -- I'm still haunted by it.