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Do you have a comfort book?

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MarieJeanne · 08/03/2014 19:07

Do you have a book that you regularly reread or is your literary comfort blanket?
Mine is The secret diary of Adrian Mole - the first one

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notnowbernard · 18/03/2014 21:39

The adolescent Adrian Mole diaries

To Kill A Mocking Bird

CaptainTripps · 18/03/2014 21:38

On audio I love the Dean Koontz thriller House of Thunder. Mel Foster's amazing narration soothes me to sleep at night. And I mean that in a good way.

highlandcoo · 15/03/2014 23:50

The More Famous Jack .. I have been recommending it wrongly for years Blush

highlandcoo · 15/03/2014 23:46

Yet another vote for Pride and Prejudice.

And Ballet Shoes, which takes me right back to how much I enjoyed it over 40 years ago when I read it for the first time.

Not a classic but I also really like Other People's Marriages by Rosie Thomas - not my usual taste in reading but very good of its kind .. a spookily accurate reflection of a few marriages I've observed in RL.

And Brother of the More Famous Jake by Barbara Trapido bears a few rereads.

Jinsei · 15/03/2014 23:36

Pride and Prejudice.

Or Winnie the Pooh. It has so much wisdom in it!

80sMum · 15/03/2014 23:28

Pride and Prejudice.

Springcleanish · 15/03/2014 23:26

Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice. Only books I read again and again, except for Of Mice and Men for work!

KurriKurri · 15/03/2014 23:21

My adult choices - Emma, or My Cousin Rachel.

The ones I loved as a child and still love now - The Moomin books - I love reliving that childhood feeling of being drawn into this strange and magical world, and there is so much love in the books.

PetiteRaleuse · 15/03/2014 19:39

And Harry Potter.

PetiteRaleuse · 15/03/2014 19:39

Jilly Cooper Rutshire series. The first four especially.

EugenesAxe · 15/03/2014 19:32

Waving to MonkeyMess - by the time I get to Larry 's analysis of the Dodo/ Alecko confrontation I have a stitch from uncontrollable giggles.

letsgotostonehenge · 14/03/2014 20:19

IT-Stephen king Wink

exexpat · 14/03/2014 20:16

I think mine would have to be Pride and Prejudice, though some of the novels of Carol Shields would come a close second - Republic of Love, Happenstance, Mary Swann. And then Hitchhiker's Guide.

There are also some books of poetry which probably fit the definition of 'comfort reading' even more closely for me (Eliot, MacNeice, various anthologies).

FiscalCliffRocksThisTown · 14/03/2014 20:11

Slugsalettuce, echoes is an unrecognised masterpiece imo!

Mumbledore · 14/03/2014 19:31

I find James Herriot's books really comforting and lovely.

ImAMonkeyMess · 14/03/2014 19:21

My Family and Other Animals. Lovely in every way.

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catwithflowers · 14/03/2014 19:17

Oh yes to Little House on the Prairie

catwithflowers · 14/03/2014 19:16

Agatha Christie Smile

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aoife24 · 14/03/2014 19:11

Oh, forgot, another one which is embarrassing but hey ho, The Beach.

FiscalCliffRocksThisTown · 14/03/2014 19:05

Any Maeve Binchy

The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder ( little house on the prairie!)

Little women (though it is still wrong Jo did not end up with Laurie)

I read these for comfort. They are like old friends really.

aoife24 · 14/03/2014 19:00

The Secret History Grin

MrsFreddieThreepwood · 11/03/2014 09:51

Wodehouse or Arthur Ransome, especially those with the 'Norfolk Coots'Smile

Amiawake · 11/03/2014 09:48

nanetta it does feel like that! I read it on journeys or if I'm away on a course. It's a journeying kind of book.