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What's your comfort book?

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Ellisisland · 02/02/2014 18:47

The book you return to again and again. I have just finished reading three new quite heavy books and fancy re reading something that I've enjoyed before so hoping to pick your collective brains Grin

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Enb76 · 03/02/2014 20:30

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Magician - Raymond Feist.

Bit disparate.

JeanBodel · 03/02/2014 20:28

Georgette Heyer
PG Wodehouse
Agatha Christie
Elizabeth Peters
Ellis Peters Cadfael series

minsmum · 03/02/2014 20:25

I love Jennifer Crusie. I am reading everything by her I can get my hands on at the moment.

AppleCrumples · 03/02/2014 20:25

Alice in wonderland/Through the looking glass

Winnie the pooh

The last continent - Terry Pratchett I even demanded dp bring my battred copy into hospital to help me through the trauma of being on a drip after a nasty stomach bug at 32 weeks pg

NothingTraLaLa · 03/02/2014 20:20

I am about to hit Amazon hard.
I will add all of Terry Pratchett's back catalogue, especially anything with Vimes in.

Montypig · 03/02/2014 20:11

The dark is rising series by Susan Cooper - must be read out loud to a smallish child in the winter….repeatedly
Jennifer Cruise - welcome to temptation - I don't know why, but I can re read it endlessly
Possession - AS Byatt - lots of books within books and a comforting love story too !

Rnyamma · 03/02/2014 19:36

The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth.. It's a book set in verse and is beautiful.. I often reread it

Iwasagnome · 03/02/2014 19:33

Agatha Christie e. g Murder at the Vicarage

MissHobart · 03/02/2014 19:27

Watchers - Dean Koontz Grin

OverAndAbove · 03/02/2014 16:59

Any Jilly Cooper

Don't ask me why, by Tana Kindersley; I've read it many times

TerraNotSoFirma · 03/02/2014 16:54

Last chance saloon by Marian Keyes, not putting in a blush smiley because its a great book Grin

DameDeepRedBetty · 03/02/2014 16:40

Oh and early Elizabeth Chadwick's always reliable.

Another one that's stood being read more than once is An Accomplish't Woman by Jude Morgan.

MissBeehiving · 03/02/2014 16:37

Pride and prejudice
Rivals (jilly cooper)

Rollermum · 03/02/2014 16:28

All the Adrian Mole books
Tipping the Velvet and The Fingersmith
A Christmas Carol - just love it!

FriedSprout · 03/02/2014 16:20

Lord of the Rings
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca

notnowbernard · 03/02/2014 16:19

To kill a mocking bird

Greydog · 03/02/2014 16:18

I'm with DameDeep - also any of the What Katy did books, I have read and read Mist over pendle, my copy is now falling apart! And - I have to confess, the Aurora Teagarden books!

DameDeepRedBetty · 03/02/2014 16:14

Georgette Heyer and Dorothy L Sayers.

sleepyhead · 03/02/2014 16:13

Jane Eyre
Tales of the City
Anything by Jilly Cooper
Anything by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 03/02/2014 16:10

Tales of the city
Cold comfort farm

Taffeta · 03/02/2014 16:03

I never re read can't bear it.

But my go to author when I need comfort is Alexander McCall Smith, who is fortunately so prolific there's no need to re read!

SlightlyDampWellies · 03/02/2014 16:00

September by Rosamunde Pilcher or Winter Solstice (I have fantasies about living in Scotland).

Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

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Ellisisland · 03/02/2014 15:55

Love Marian Keyes Grin

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MimsyBorogroves · 03/02/2014 14:31

Anne of Green Gables
The Prince of Tides
Coming Home

Ninehoursahead · 03/02/2014 10:18

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes. I have read it over and over

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