If you are re-reading a book at the moment what is it?

[Cheesesandwine]

I am re-reading Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Really enjoying it, lovely language with fantastic description of the mountains and farm land where the book is based.

I am now curious, do others re-read books? If you are re-reading a book are you enjoying it as much as you did first time round or less?

I am enjoying this more as more interested in her writing about the animals and plants than last time.

[Cheesesandwine]

Wow - what a response.

Looking at your go to books has reminded me of the other books I love to re-read, and as others have said I often go to them at times of stress and illness. I remember after a rather horrible break up re-reading all the Jilly Copper books.

Other re-reader books include:

Jane Eyer
Bridget Jones
P&P
Anne of Greengables

All non offensive, happy ending types, just what you need sometimes.

[SenecaFalls]

And To Kill a Mockingbird. I re-read it about every two years.

[GnomeDePlume]

daisydalrymple, if you do retry the LPW then the order in my post is the chronological order. Of course you can read them in any order you like!

It is interesting how many re-readers are also speed readers.

My DH is very dyslexic as a result he cant scan read. He has to read with care. He seldom re-reads as he has gets every last morsel out of a book on the first hit!

[daisydalrymple]

Thanks gnome, am actually a librarian by training, so chronological suits my finicky ways

[MiddleAgeMiddleEngland]

I'm currently reading a series of books which I haven't read before.

But I re-read a lot. Some books are just too good to only read once. Anna Karenina, The Mill on the Floss, A House for Mr Biswas and The Grapes of Wrath spring to mind as ones which can be read over and over again and always have something new to discover. I love reading a new book and knowing I'll read it again before too long.

My favourite easy comfort reads are books I've read since childhood. Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, The Children Who Lived in a Barn, What Katy Did, etc.

[GiveMyHeadPeaceffs]

The Potato Factory by Bryce Courteney. I love it. I've read it quite a few times and always seem to discover something new in it. Actually just googled it because I couldn't remember the author and found out it's a trilogy...happy days!!

[Room101isWhereIUsedToLive]

'shoo fly don't bother me, shoo fly don't bother me, for I belong to somebody''
Love the cloning of joanna-may, must have read it at least four times. Currently re-reading the diamond bikini by Charles Williams. Made me laugh a lot the first time I read it. Doesn't now but it is still agreat story well worth reading.

[Catastrophica]

I am re-reading Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson right now. I don't re-read many books, only the ones I have found it hard to let go of (emotionally).

So I have re-read a lot of Howard Norman books and will soon need to re-read John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things.

[westcoastnortherneragain]

I have to say I loved reading World War Z

[AlpacaLypse]

I'm another serial re-reader of Dorothy L Sayers.

I don't reread in chronological order, just on which one is nearest when I have a stressy 'I need comfort food moment'!

I think the absolute best is Murder Must Advertise - although that may be because I've always been interested in the psychology of advertising, which this novel addressed quietly along the way.

The other author I re-read chronically is Georgette Heyer. Not all of them by any means, but her comedy romances remain the absolute best of their type, and guarantee a smile on face as one dozes off .

Other books I've re-read...

Shardlake series by CJ Samson. Also Dominion and Winter In Madrid. All because I wolfed them down first time and they benefited from being savoured second time around.

Some (but not all) of Lindsey Davis' Falco novels.

Mid period Ngaio Marsh.

And mid period Agatha Christie.

Earlier Patrick O'Brian.

I reread To Kill A Mockingbird not long ago, as it was on the GSCE list for my dtds and I wanted to sound intelligent when they asked about it. I'd forgotten how good it was!

Most disconcerting to help formulate essays about something I'd last studied 30 years ago...

[dizzytomato]

I recently re-read To Kill A Mockingbird. There was so much I'd forgotten and so much I reinterpreted since the controversy over Go Set A Watchman.

[annandale]

Really enjoying the Gaudy Night series again , many thanks for posting that link

[bakeoffcake]

I love retreading too. It's very comforting and you know it's going to be excellent!

My favourites are
Pride and prejudice.
The God of small things.
The Northerm Clemency.
Any Kate Atkinson.
A Fine Balance

I'm just about to reread Wolf Hall for the first time.

[Quogwinkle]

I reread Wolf Hall earlier this year, and got so much more out of it. I loved it. I will probably reread Bring Up the Bodies at some point too. Waiting anxiously for part 3 from Hilary Mantel :)

[LBOCS2]

I like to do a series from start to finish again if I've run out of new things to read. It's most often Pratchett (although I'll do a 'theme' rather than the lot - so all of the Watch books, or the Witches, etc), or Harry Potter.

I'm a bit pernickety about reading series' though - even if I'm not enjoying them that much I'll still have to buy and finish the lot. I spent a lot of time and money reading the Cazalet Chronicles hoping that something would happen. It didn't.

[suzannecaravaggio]

I'm currently re reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
It's rare that I re read a book, there's only a handful of books that I would read again, but this is one of my all time favourites

Ditto!
Well not actually re reading it now but its my favourite book and oneof the few I've read multiple times

[momb]

I've just reread the Harry Potter series. I'm planning a kids holiday with a potter theme so have been searching for inspiration. I did notice lots of bits that I missed the first time, but it isn't so well written that I've enjoyed the language or descriptive text more.

[Chorltonswheelies422]

I posted before but wanted to add

Wilt
Blott on the landscape
Life and loves of a she-devil

[MillicentMargaretAmanda]

I love rereading. Partly because, in spite of having quite a good memory, I seem to retain very little when it comes to major plot points so it's like reading something new! I love rereading: the Pratchett ouvre, Elizabeth Pewsey Mountjoy novels, Harry Potter, Mary Stewart and all my childhood books. My copy of Ballet Shoes is very well loved. Xx.

[MillicentMargaretAmanda]

Ugh. Not sure what the xx was all about. Talking to my mother so my confused brain probably thought I was texting her!

[cressetmama]

I've just re-read a book my sister got as a Christmas present which I loved as a child (about eight, IIRC). Komantcia by Harold Keith; I tracked down via AMazon as it was only in print here briefly. It's an account of a young Spanish guitarist and his brother, exiled from Spain, and taken by Commanches in a raid, and how he learns to become a Commanche brave. And I enjoyed it again; it would make an interesting read for any DC doing the History of the American West topic in GCSE History.

But I am generally happy to re-read, especially in the middle of the night. It's easier to get back to sleep if you know what's coming next!

[MadameDePompom]

I've just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice. I hadn't read it in 20 years and had forgotten how brilliant it was and was sad to read the last page. Was tempted to jump straight back into another Austen but decided to ration them out a bit more.

[lisa2104]

God I'd love to have time to re read but I have so many I want to read anyway! Although I often have re read the diary of Anne Frank and the Adrian Mole book because they absolutely make me laugh out loud! I've also read Fight Club a couple of times.

[crazywriter]

I always re-read books. I have some that I've read so many times now that they're falling to pieces, like The Diary of Anne Frank and A Child Called It. Both non-fiction and fiction books I'll read over and over again if I really enjoy them. Sometimes it's to remind myself of something that happened if it's been a while and a new book in the series has come out. Other times it's just because I want a book that I know I enjoy.

I'll always enjoy them again. I'll often find something I missed the first time or find a new theory or possible foreshadow moment. I'll also see new connections between other books in a series.

[lisa2104]

The Adrian mole books make me laugh NOT the diary of Anne Frank obviously! I really should preview before I post. I do love Anne Frank though but the book makes me cry every time.