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

[kerravonsen]

I have never brought myself to re-read LILITH or PHANTASTES, having not cared for them at all the first time around

I can get that. I want to try again with them because I found them evocative as well as hard to understand.

And I have never read Bradshaw! Do you think I would like her?

You know how people say "the past is a foriegn country"? With her, the past is an alien planet... where the world-building is very well done. Yes, you would like her. Especially "The Beacon at Alexandria", I think, because strong female protagonist, disguise, adventure, friendship, and understated romance. Besides Beacon and "Island of Ghosts", I'd recommend "The Sand-Reckoner" (about Archimedes!), "Cleopatra's Heir", "Wolf Hunt" (historical fantasy) and "Dangerous Notes" (near-future SF with an overtone of Greek myth). Oh, and she also wrote an Arthurian trilogy (which I how I discovered her, actually) which I don't tend to re-read because Tragic Ending of Arthur Saga makes me sad.