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Which are your Go-To Books??
I read a lot. But sometimes you just feel like not reading a new book. You read a book you already read and know well just because you like it so much. Perhaps because it makes you feel good or some other reason. I call these books Go-To Books. Do you books like that? In that case: what books are they? I'll start. I wont mention any King books for thats a given.
When i'm down and need a laugh i always return to P.G.Wodehouses Jeeves and Wooster stories or novels and to Jerome K. Jeromes Three Men In A Boat. They always make me laugh so i have to stop reading. There are several mysteries by Christie, Sayers and Carr i return to just to admire the way they are written. The only more modern mystery i can remember that i reread several times is The Secret Place by Tana French. There are Tolkien and the several of the Narnia Books. Also Asimovs Robot short stories, especially the ones featuring the female robo-psychiatrist that are great. Some SF of Heinlein like Stranger in a strange land, Double Star, Revolt in 2100, Tunnel in the Sky and Methusalems Children. Richard Adams amazing Watership Down, Diana Gabaldons Outlander (first book), Jean Auels Clan of The Cave Bear, Janice Brooks Guests of the Emperor, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery, Ronja The Robbers Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, 1632 by Eric Flint. These books feel, to me, so comfy to reread that it doesn't matter that all of them are not masterpieces. Some of them certainly arent. They are friends waiting for me in the bookshelf when i need them. They bring me up when i'm down, they make me go on reading when i'm lethargic and make me feel safe. I know exact whats gonna happen but i read anyway. Do you have books like that? Which are they? If you feel like it please tell me. It would be interesting.
When i'm down and need a laugh i always return to P.G.Wodehouses Jeeves and Wooster stories or novels and to Jerome K. Jeromes Three Men In A Boat. They always make me laugh so i have to stop reading. There are several mysteries by Christie, Sayers and Carr i return to just to admire the way they are written. The only more modern mystery i can remember that i reread several times is The Secret Place by Tana French. There are Tolkien and the several of the Narnia Books. Also Asimovs Robot short stories, especially the ones featuring the female robo-psychiatrist that are great. Some SF of Heinlein like Stranger in a strange land, Double Star, Revolt in 2100, Tunnel in the Sky and Methusalems Children. Richard Adams amazing Watership Down, Diana Gabaldons Outlander (first book), Jean Auels Clan of The Cave Bear, Janice Brooks Guests of the Emperor, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery, Ronja The Robbers Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, 1632 by Eric Flint. These books feel, to me, so comfy to reread that it doesn't matter that all of them are not masterpieces. Some of them certainly arent. They are friends waiting for me in the bookshelf when i need them. They bring me up when i'm down, they make me go on reading when i'm lethargic and make me feel safe. I know exact whats gonna happen but i read anyway. Do you have books like that? Which are they? If you feel like it please tell me. It would be interesting.
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first one is a kid’s book. Harriet the Spy. I love this book and read it periodically. Lots of lessons to learn from it and i need reminded every now and then.
hands down, my most revisited book is also an sk.
I'm definitely a SK re-reader to sorry Kurben. The Talisman, The Stand and the DT series are my most frequent.
Raymond E Feist has a series called The Riftwar Saga, it starts out with a book called Magician. I love this series and re-read the first few over and over.
Tad Williams has a couple series I absolutely adored and went back to again and again.
The first is called Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.
The second is called The Otherland series. We used to get the new book in this series every Christmas and would go on holiday camping with my BiL and SIL and our kids and the adults would all be lying around in the shade reading the same book while the little kids napped.
I think i lack the discipline to have an accurate reading journal. How far back does it go? Further than 2010? Just asking because i'm in awe....