What's your comfort book?

[Ellisisland]

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

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

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

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

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

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Magician - Raymond Feist.

Bit disparate.

Harry Potter
Dorothy L Sayers
early Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood)
early Stephanie Plum (Janet Evanovich)

Just reread the Cazalet chronicles (Elizabeth Jane Howard) which was most enjoyable.

I used to reread Chalet School but again, only the earlier ones - maybe up until they leave Guernsey

Antonia Forest Marlowe books

I reread a lot. DH doesn't understand it, he has never reread a book ever!

I'm just reading The Railway Children to dd and it's still lovely.

Also Diary of a Provincial Lady, any Austen.

Antonia White's Frost in May. Have read it so many times it's falling apart.

And I do like me a bit of poetry now and again. Hardy or George Herbert or Ogden Nash for fun. A nice anthology works for me.

A suitable boy by Vikram Seth.
Transports me away and I love the characters.

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones. Just brilliant.

Any Jane Austen, except Mansfield Park.

Reading Lord Peter Whimsey at present, Motalbano, Brunetti and Virgil Flowers, all favourite detectives. I don't know why all those dead bodies should be comforting though.

A book of letters between Winston Churchill and his wife , Clementine
Morse books by Colin Dexter
Ruth Rendell
The series which starts with " when Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit"
Books from my childhood e.g A Little Princess, The Silver Sword, 5 children and It, The Secret Garden, The Railway Children and Ballet Shoes.

Ohh yy again to Agatha Christie and PG Wodehouse and Tales of the City.

I always get called in RL for re-reading. And my book club hated the Lord Peter Wimsey I did

But here - aaahhh -

I go back to childhood faves too, so The secret garden, The railway children.

Wellies Winter Solstice is one of mine; indeed, I'm reading it at the moment - I've had a difficult couple of months. I just love the way everything works out o beautifully for everyone. Incidentally, I just discovered that the house they live in is available as a holiday let. I'm so tempted.

Otherwise, LPW - usually Five Red Herrings or The Nine Tailors.

If I'm really down I turn to Enid Blyton or the Jill books by Ruby Ferguson; I pretend I'm about 11, with no responsibilities.

That is what I love about it too, Henrietta. I like that about 'September' also. (Well, it did not turn out that well for Pandora!)

Please do tell about the holiday let!!!! Is it an actual place??!!

I also turn to the Jill books when I am feeling stressed out by life.... just this past weekend I re-read 'Jill's Riding Club'. :)

I have favourites that I return to time and again

The Diary of Anne Frank

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Spiritual Midwifery

Wodehouse to make me laugh out loud and Anna Karenina if I'm feeling more sombre

Another Jill fan, excellent My favourite is Rosettes for Jill, but I love them all.

My last post was a bit garbled. Of course, I meant the house that Oscar partly owns - this one

I haven't read September, I'll have to add it to my (ever growing) to read list.

Ooooh!!!! Thanks!

The Jill books are brilliant. The only thing that rankles is why she didn't take up Captain Cholly-Sawcut's kind offer of a job instead of messing about in Pony Jobs for Jill and then settling for life as a secretary.

Another for A Tree grows in Brooklyn. My first copy fell apart because I'd read it so many times.

Also P&P, To Kill A Mockingbird
The Common Years, Imogen and Rivals by Jilly Cooper,
Cinderella In Sunlight by Hermina Black.

And how could I forget Asta's Book by Barbara Vine.

And Rebecca.

Miss Pettigrew lives for a day is one of my comfort reads too. Three Men in a Boat is pure happy escapism too, I've lost count of how many times I've read it.

And Harry Potter