Top Ten Tuesday for today… hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s topic is Books I’ve Read More Than Once.. and Why.
1. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – What a moody, mysterious book. I have never done this with a book, but I read this cover to cover a second time the very night I finished reading it. Twice in a day! I just didn’t want to stop reading it, so when it ended, I had no choice but to read it again.
2. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke – Rilke is comfort food. Advice for any and every time of your life. Practical and sensitive rolled into one.
3. Embassytown by China Mieville – I was in AWE of this book. But I kept having to reread parts of it as I read it to make sure I was able to follow it.
4. Carrie by Stephen King – I remember reading Carrie cover to cover a few years after I first read it. The first time, I’d rushed through it to find out what happens. The epistolary style meant I missed a lot of details. Good thing too, because I admired the book way more the second time around.
5. The Prisoner of Azkaban / The Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling – I guess I’ve read all of the series many times, but with these books, the rereads have been because of how much character is packed into them. I don’t think much happens in either of the books! But so, so much character. I read these two for those unforgettable character moments – the boggarts and the DA meetings!
6. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice – I recently read started reading parts of this again, because it has just been too long… I don’t remember it as clearly as I’d like to. Sometimes I see a post on Instagram.. or another blog, that reminds me of a book that I read a long time ago; and I just want to relive the experience. I had seen this post about Lestat which made me go back to this one.
7, Watership Down by Richard Adams – I re-read it when I saw that there was a new movie out on Netflix. Don’t you do this too? Read the book again before you watch the movie. The film is lovely, didn’t expect that; with the greatest cast!
8. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle – This one’s strange.. but I’ve read this over and over, virtually combed through it, to teach it! I suppose that also applies to books you study. You’d think that when this happens the book stops being a book, a pleasure read… but with The Hound…, every time I read it and dissect it further, I love it more and more.
9. The Tempest / Macbeth by William Shakespeare – I suppose everyone rereads Shakespeare, right? Just in the effort to follow? Or re-watches. These are my favourite plays and the only ones I’ve actually read multiple times.
10. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde – The second play on the list. But this is here to represent most of the ‘humour’ books I’ve read over the years! [I had to choose between this, Good Omens and Three Men In a Boat.] Humour is best enjoyed in repeated doses, right?
Which books do you find yourself revisiting? And why?
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Hey, you teach too? But you’re right, The Hound of the Baskervilles does bear repeated re-reads. And I adored Embassytown…. and everything Mieville has written! What an imagination and language!
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Yes, Mieville’s imagination is endless! Every book is unique.
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Rebecca would be a good one to re-read. I read it a few years ago, but I would love to give it another read. I watched the new film on Netflix the other night, so I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me add it to my list. 🙂
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How is the movie? I’ve been meaning to watch it.
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It’s quite good. It’s pretty faithful to the book, the settings are lovely, and the actors I think did a good job and matched the characters quite well. It’s definitely worth watching. 🙂
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I’ve never read Rebecca, but you’re making it sound good!
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You should read it!
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I refrained myself from putting Shakespeare up on the list this week, but I would have put Much Ado About Nothing/All’s Well that Ends Well.
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I’ve read neither! Time to correct that. Thanks for stopping by!
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I love The Prisoner of Azkaban, one of my favourite Harry Potter books. Ironically you also have my least favourite here, whilst Order of The Phoenix had some great moments, it’s too long for me.
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I’d be surprised but this is the most common reaction to The Order of the Phoenix! People who love it are rare.
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I do love aspects of it, I just feel in general it’s too long!
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Rebecca is one of those books I keep saying I’m going to read and never do…and you’re wanting to reread it! I guess I should bite the bullet and do it already. It’s obviously good. 😉
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Hope you like it when you do..
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I shold have thought of Watership Down. I read it so long ago I don’t really remember it except the impression of how good it was. I rarely reread books so this was a hard list for me to create. My TTT Books I want to read again list
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I rarely re-read books cover to cover too, usually just revisit the parts I liked the best.
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I keep hearing how great Rebecca is. I guess I need to check it out one of these days. 🙂
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I recently bought Rebecca on audio so I’d have the chance to revisit it soon! I read it a couple years ago and just loved it
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I wish I owned a copy!
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I really just need to read Rebecca! I need to because I see so many people talking about it! 🙂
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Yes, highly recommended.
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I’m familiar with some of these and will look for the others, thx! I love Rebecca!
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I don’t often reread but I did unearth my copy of Interview with a Vampire a few months back and thought it’d be nice to reread that as I’d like to continue on with the series 🙂 Many of these others you mention are on my TBR. Great list!
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I loved Rebecca, too, and it’s time for a reread. I just recently read The Hound of the Baskervilles for the first time with my son.:)
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I can totally understand why you would reread all of these! Rebecca is one of my favorites and I’d really like to get around to reading it again soon.
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