I was looking through my Goodreads and noticed that I am currently reading Chamber of Secrets and I read it literally the exact same dates last year. I wish I had kept better track of the year before so I could see if I am always starting this series when school starts back.
Every year I read: Harry Potter series (sometimes twice a year ) Pride and Prejudice Little Women (except last year, which was probably why my read list felt off)
Does anyone have a book(s) that they re-read/reread every year or even at the same time every year?
Post by dorothyinAus on Sept 27, 2014 6:41:33 GMT -5
I don't have books that I re-read every year, but I do read L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series fairly regularly. I also re-read Little Women often, and Robert K. Massie's Nicholas & Alexandra. E.L. Konigsburg's The View from Saturday is one of my all-time favorites and it gets read regularly, sometimes more than once a year.
And I am always re-reading bits and pieces of Robert Fulghum's All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, but that's not really a book that has to read start-to-finish.
I don't really count re-reads of children's books like Go Dog, Go!, Peter Rabbit, any of Richard Scarry's or Dr. Seuss' works, Goodnight Moon, or Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day, as I can finish those in a few minutes. But they get read fairly often as well, usually when I have to move them to find books under them, so I'll sit down on the floor in front of the bookshelf and DH will find me there hours later, having read through the stack of saved picture books...
Post by christy082 on Sept 27, 2014 6:52:28 GMT -5
I don't, yet. I finally read HP for the first time last year free through Amazon Prime, then went and bought the whole series in hardcover when I was done. I have yet to reread them but I will!
For the past several years, I re-read the HP series every summer, but I didn't this year. I'm holding out for starting a read-aloud with DD. That was my only regular re-read session, though.
I used to reread Lord of the Rings annually, but now I kind of alternate with HP so it's more like once every 18 months for each. I don't read straight through either series but intermix with other books. I don't have a set schedule but pick one up when I start to miss the characters. I realize that may make me sound crazy.
I don't, yet. I finally read HP for the first time last year free through Amazon Prime, then went and bought the whole series in hardcover when I was done. I have yet to reread them but I will!
When you do, please regale us with your "ah ha!" moments when you realize how brilliantly Rowling set up certain storylines early on.
Thanks to my recent trip to Universal Studios I'm also currently rereading HP. I've read the first 3 a few times but I always get stuck on 4 and never finish. I've only read the last 3 once. This will take me into next year as I only get one a month from the Kindle Library. Usually around Halloween I reread The Forbidden Games by LJ Smith and The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause. These are favorites from high school. Otherwise I will reread random books that have just stood out to me. Poison Study and Touch of Power both by Maria V Snyder and The Immortal Rules trilogy by Julia Kagawa are some more recent books that I've been rereading. Peony in Love is also one I reread almost every year or so.
I used to reread Lord of the Rings annually, but now I kind of alternate with HP so it's more like once every 18 months for each. I don't read straight through either series but intermix with other books. I don't have a set schedule but pick one up when I start to miss the characters. I realize that may make me sound crazy.
/not crazy
I was making a study schedule for the licensure exam I have coming up and felt very much like Hermione while doing so. And now I'm rereading the series in between studying lol.
I used to reread Lord of the Rings annually, but now I kind of alternate with HP so it's more like once every 18 months for each. I don't read straight through either series but intermix with other books. I don't have a set schedule but pick one up when I start to miss the characters. I realize that may make me sound crazy.
/not crazy
I was making a study schedule for the licensure exam I have coming up and felt very much like Hermione while doing so. And now I'm rereading the series in between studying lol.
I find when I'm under a deadline, either at work, or for studying, I tend to read more for leisure than when I have nothing but leisure reading to do. I did my best reading in college in the weeks I was studying for finals! And I'm onvinced that the diversions into leisure reading actually helped me with my studying. I usually read Anne & Little Women during my fall semester finals and Emily & Dumas during my spring finals.
Post by Skyesthelimit1212 on Oct 6, 2014 13:57:40 GMT -5
I don't feel like I have to reread a book yearly, but I have reread The Thomas Pitt series and David Eddings series a few times over. I'm going to reread A Discovery of Witches series over, I just finished them over the summer, but I want to read them again.
I also read the HP series annually, and honestly more than that. Those are great books. I usually read Wasted by Marya Hornbacher, as well as the complete works of Poe and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.