Thanks to these two bloggers for sponsoring the annual Blog Discussion Challenge:
- Nicole at Feed your Fiction Addiction
- Shannon at It Starts at Midnight
It has often been my experience that re-reading a book that was important to me at earlier times in my life is something like lying on the analyst’s couch.
For the past few years I’ve set aside September as a month for rereading works that I’ve continued to think about since I first read them. I don’t remember exactly when I started doing this or even why, but knowing that it will eventually come up gives me comfort all year. And once I started compiling a list of books to reread, I came up with way more titles than I’ll probably be able to get through in the number of Septembers left to me.
However, I’m going to cheat a bit this year. I have Liz Moore’s new novel The God of the Woods on my shelf, and I’m really, really eager to read it. So I’m going to start with that one, and then I’ll move on to rereading at least a few of these books:
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
How about you?
Do you reread books? Why or why not?
© 2024 by Mary Daniels Brown
I used to reread books, but I don’t anymore. I have too many new books to read and review.
I feel ya, Liz. I’m at the point in life when I have more reading years behind me than ahead. Yet I still keep a list and try to revisit at least a few of my favorites in September. Knowing that Rereading September will eventually come around, I don’t have to think about the topic for the other 11 months of each year.
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I wrote a post last week for the Discussion Challenge on re-reading.
https://jannghi.blogspot.com/2024/08/book-discussion-re-reading.html
Not sure how much more re-reading I’ll be doing this year, if any at all.
Such synchronicity, Jamie! Thanks for letting me know. I’ve promoted your post on Mastodon.