it;'s best the twelfth time - re-reads!

[tyaca]

ok --- what have you read sooooo many times??

Cold Comfort Farm poss tops my list

Though i've been reading antonia forest non-stop for twenty years

my sister swears that kids author, cynthia voight, peaks on a twelfth read ;-)

when I feel very sorry for myself Chalet School hardbacks!

And The Worst Journey in the World

and Nesbit and the Hobbit

and bits of Pepys

Ah,Love in a Cold Climate - 'abroad is unutterably bloody and all foreigners are fiends' (so said Fa)

Right, have just been and got second-hand copy of Love in a Cold Climate off Amazon. All the other choices on this thread seem pretty kindred (as Anne Shirley might say) so I reckon I'll like that too. Hurrah - I love discovering authors I haven't read before!

Love in a Cold Climate is perfect. So is The Blessing and Pursuit of Love.

Madame Bovary
Far From the Madding Crowd

But on the whole I am such a slow reader I don't re-read books because there are so many I want to read.

hurrah for all the mitford choices

i only read them first a couple of years ago, and have only read them twice (three times for pursuit) 'cause i'm scared of killing them by too many re-reads

has anyone read Hons & Rebels? Jessica Mitford's biog. ace stuff

maryann, margojerry and bellabear - everyone raved about L-Shaped so much on Top 5 Teengar thread that i ebayed myself a copy

arrived today and am looking forward to a v lazy weekend reading it

tyaca - hope you like it !!

Some of my favourites here...
I regularly re-read all of these

Tales of the City
Robertson Davies' Salterton Trilogy
Mary McCarthy The Group
Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Gaudy Night
I Claudius/Claudius the God
Persuasion
War and Peace (honestly - I only discovered it in my 30s I'm ashamed to say)
Gillian Bradshaw - The Beacon at Alexandria

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ooh ths is interesting - do people who like to reread also like the same stuff, as lots of this is very familiar?

All the Mitfords - although tBH i have finally reached the point with Pursuit of Love where I know it almost by heart - might have to go back to it again in 30 years.
Tyaca, have you read A Fine Old Conflict yet - vol II of Jessica Mitford's life (according to her anyway!)
Molesworth. Can't wait to introduce it to ds and tuough him up continually.
All the Jane Austens except Northanger Abbey and Emma only intermittently.
Clive James' 3 TV criticism collections.
Cold Comfort Farm.
Josephine Tey and Dorothy L Sayers, although I find it harder and harder to overlook the politics.
Georgette Heyer en masse. Dick Francis on masse. Noel Stretfeild en masse, esp White Boots (oh for a doctor who would prescribe ice-skating for me).
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr.

Howq could I forget Brat Farrar and Miss Pym Disposes choosy (but yes the politics are hard to stomach these days)

Am amazed at all these re-readings! I hardly ever revisit books.

But ... I do read P G Wodehouse, especially "Code of the Woosters" every couple of years, and laugh like a loon. Marvellous invalid reading.

And I did read the Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) twice.

Oh and Ina May Gaskin's Guide to Childbirth - two readings, and for one of those I wasn't even pregnant, just very broody !!

choosyfloosy - Molesworth -chizz chizz !uterley grate !

Have other people discovered the joys of the Hyman Kaplan books (by Leo Rosten) ? I'd love to re read these !

[writes down Leo Rosten]

A Prayer For Owen Meany-fab! was just thinking today how I must reread it. Don't normally reread things cos I think I should move on to something new, but can't get rid of them either.

XH once asked if I could just "get rid of the ones I had read"( to make space for something). DOH!

choosyfloosy - i robbed fine old conflict off my mum ages ago, but never got round to reading it. wot no sisters and hitler?? any good?

today i saw lush looking new book of her letters in books etc but am resisting buying for the mo.

pg with first and gutted i can't call it decca-short-for-jessica 'cause a) jessica keeps topping girls names list, and b) my surname's dear

i think Decca Dear is quite lovely but do see your point - what about Jasmine (as in Jassy) or Constance (can't quite see Constancia??)

His Dark Materials
The Collector
Harry Potter
Great Gatsby
Assassins Books (Robin Hobb)
The Chrysalids

Don't think i've read any of books already mentioned! I love The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (both given to me by ex boyf, lots of nice memories) and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. (Read it at school, taught by amazing teacher who also loved the book, think her enthusiasm for it rubbed off on me)

I've just ordered Frost in May, the Country child and the L shaped room from amazon as I think i'm gonna love these after your recommendations.

Thanks folks!

There's nothing better than sitting down with a book that is great.

has anyone ever read "The Orchard on Fire" by shena Mackay? I love her descriptive writing. i read it a lot, it's a real favourite with me because the village and characters are so much like the village i grew up in (luckily without the child abuse).

Must re read 'The Chrysalids" Loved it and I'm sure I'd see a lot more in it now.

Also read "The handmaid's Tale" recently after hearing about it on 'woman's hour". A very original read.

In the run up to Christmas, I always read The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper and The Box of Delights by John Masefield - they always make me think of my childhood Christmases, snuggled up in front of the fire reading. Aaah!

Lord of the Rings - I've lost count of how many times I have read it.
The Dark is Rising (every December)
The Father Christmas Letters by Tolkien - I'm really looking forward to sharing these with DS
Anything by Lois McMaster Bujold, especially if I'm in need of a comfort read.

tyaca - or what about Fanny ? or what was Linda's poor baby called ?

Vulgar - the Country Child is very atmospheric and lovely - especially the Christmas chapters - I always love re reading those when it's wintery !

Moira !