Thursday, July 12, 2012

Summer Rereading

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Ever love a story so much you’ve just got to read it again? Enjoy revisiting your favorite stories once a year? Maybe you’ve got that classic sitting on your shelf that you always meant to reread?

It’s that time of year again for me where I start rereading a bunch of my favorite classics. Right now I’m working on Treasure Island! I started doing this in college and have loved it ever since. Instead of being in the usual grind of conquering one new book after the other each week, I spend some time leisurely delving into the details of some of my most treasured stories.

What are some books you’d like to reread? Tolkien? Shakespeare? Bronte? How does rereading a book make a story come alive for you?

20 comments:

  1. I've never read treasure island. I should add that one to the list :)

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  2. I rarely read a book twice, but I have read Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara series more than once.

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  3. Our Shakespeare Company is doing Treasure Island this year. I'm very tempted to go see it, though I don't know how they'll do it on stage.

    Anyway, I do like to go back and reread certain books. Pride and Prejudice is one, and, um, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I think I've read it three times. Apparently I'm starved for romance. :))

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  4. The summer I turned 15 was also the summer after my mom died. I had gotten a list of recommended reading for the college bound. That was the summer I met the likes of Alexander Dumas, Charlotte Bronte, Herman Wouk, etc. Amazing that I didn't learn about Jane Austen. lol

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  5. Treasure Island is a great book to reread this time of year! I haven't reread anything yet. My TBR list is too long!

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  6. I reread books all the time. :) One of my particularly favorite books that I enjoy rereading annually, is Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. I also enjoy rereading the Hobbit, and any of the Percy Jackson books.

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  7. For a long time I'd revisit middle earth with Bilbo and Frodo every few years but It's been a while since I've read the whole series. I think my last re-read was Patrick Rothfuss THE NAME OF THE WIND.

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  8. I'm a fan of Count of Monte Cristo and Pride and Prejudice, along with some others. I enjoy rereading them often.

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  9. Oh man... I never, okay rarely ever, reread anything. Too many books I have to read for the first time! :)

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  10. I don't have time to reread much, but I do love Memoirs of a Geisha. And I'll admit to reading The Hunger Games more than once.

    Right now I can only read non-fiction, not really the best rereading material! :)

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  11. I'm reading Treasure Island now, along with the MC in my current WIP. We both love it. Some of my favorites so way back: Anything by Edith Nesbit, the Brontes, Jane Austin, John Syeinbeck. And, of course, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I think in a re-read you definitely get more into the story's world, and you appreciate the story's layers more.

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  12. Ohhhh... revisiting the classics sounds so refreshing right now... What a great idea! ;)

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  13. That sounds like fun!

    Someday I want to re-read Les Miserables or War and Peace; though right now I'm working on reading (for the first time) Don Quixote and Anna Karenina.

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  14. I have read treasure Island way back in school. Need to revisit it again.

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  15. The story I read right after completing it was, mist borne trilogy by Brandon Sanderson… and the Wheel of Time series, even thou I am still waiting for the last book to come out!

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  16. I read Treasure Island and Tuck Everlasting with my 7th graders every year + The Hobbit and The Giver with my 8th graders, and I haven't gotten tired of them yet!

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  17. I've reread Tolkien's LotR about three times... maybe four. I think it's time I reread it :)

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  18. I've reread Ender's Game I don't know how many times, but at least once a year. :)

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  19. Those are some nice choices for books to reread...guess I'll have to add them to my summer reading list:)

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