Tuesday Tea: What book have you re-read and why?
Or maybe you're not a re-reader?
A source of (very minor conflict) at Strong Sense of Place HQ is that one of us (Mel) is a big fan of re-reading books and re-watching movies — while the other (Dave) prefers to jump into something new.
I’ve re-read the Wolf Hall trilogy three or four times; frequently revisit books in the mystery series by Dick Francis, Elizabeth George, and Daniel Silva; and have read Jane Eyre too many times to keep track (because sometimes I just open to a random page and read from there to the end). Ditto: A Room with a View.
I’ve watched the movies Gosford Park and A Room with a View over and over. Anytime I have a cold, I must lie on the couch with the BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre playing on screen, and I’m on my fourth-fifth viewing of the series Good Omens.
*shrug* I like what I like.
I have reread several books. I have read Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher every December for the last six years. I have also reread Cold Sassy Tree (3 times), Anna Karenina (3 times), The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, The Postcard by Anne Berest, Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, Alive! by Piers Paul Read, and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier to name a few. There are probably a dozen more that I could list and two dozen more that I want to reread. C. S. Lewis said, “I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
At my age i want to make sure that i do not miss reading that best book of a lifetime so i always opt for something new.