Do you have a comfort book?

[MarieJeanne]

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

Thanks for the Anne heads up. I've just bought them. Cosy night in for me.

A very old and battered but much loved copy of a Childs Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Tales of the City series

It's Adrian Mole for me too!!

Emily, Bella, Octavia , Imogen Prudence and Harriet all by Jilly cooper. Had to buy a complete new set a while ago as they got borrowed and not returned!

Also any agatha Christie

For sheer joy and pleasure in every line I go back time and time again to Lord Peter Wimsey. Especially 'Murder must Advertise'

For regressing back to happy childhood it is the wonderfully disturbing 'Marian's dreams'

I agree, though, for perfect relaxation, I get those nice people at Audible arrange to have someone read it to me. Derek Jacobi reading Sherlock Holmes is PERFECT!

The Miss Read books.

Thrush green or Fairacre series ,I am not fussed.

Either will do and I can pick up any book and instantly know where I am in the story. Perfect for a non stressful read.

Georgette Heyer, Anne of Green Gables, Enid Blyton (I know I shouldn't..) or the chalet school.

Lucky Jim

Another one for American gods. It feels like going on holiday to your favourite place.

Thanks Lumpy. It's on my Kindle now.

Twilight... sorry! Team Edward! Lol.

Also Harry Potter.

Sophie Kinsella and jodi picoult are also favourites.

Mark reads Twilight

Shadow of the Moon by MM Kaye, or Dervla Murphy's travel writings.

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.

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

The Secret History

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.

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

Agatha Christie

Oh yes to Little House on the Prairie

My Family and Other Animals. Lovely in every way.

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