Devouring books

[dolorosa_12]

Thirty Day Book Meme Day 29: The one I have reread most often

I don't think I've kept good enough track of this, because a lot of my childhood favourites (many of which I've discussed on previous days of this meme) have been reread hundreds of times by me, but I wasn't keeping proper track. Given that as a child and teenager I normally read about three books a day, almost every day, with frequent rereads, that makes for many, many reread books.

I think it's likely to be either a Gillian Rubinstein book (probably Galax Arena), one of the Pagan Chronicles books (probably the third, my favourite, Pagan's Vows), or Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart mysteries books. I'm not in a position to specify an exact book, because Goodreads wasn't around in those days, and even if it had been, I was highly unlikely to have used it.


30. Would save if my house burned down.

What about you? Are any of you avid rereaders?

Comments

[forestofglory]

I used to reread all the time and at some point I mostly stopped. Now I tend to only reread if I am getting caught up on a series or for comfort. I don't know what changed I guess I feel more pressure to read all the books rather than really enjoy the ones I already have.

[dolorosa_12]

I totally agree with the pressure to read everything (and the obsession with newness and fear of missing out on the next shiny new thing). It's something I had to actively work against to overcome, because it was far too expensive for me to try to keep pace with what all the big names in the SFF community were hyping at any given time, so I kind of gave myself permission to reread and not worry so much about keeping up. But it's hard.

[forestofglory]

Luckily I have pretty good library which helps keep down the expense of reading a lot of recent things. Still I think there's certain pleasure in revisiting things a seeing them in a new light and I think ideally I'd have better balance between new stuff and old stuff.

[dolorosa_12]

Yes, I really regret my lack of a good library here. The public libraries in the UK are under severe strain, and you can really see the impact in the range (or lack thereof) of books they have available.

[forestofglory]

That makes me sad. I'm really lucky that both city and my state have decided to invest in libraries.

[regshoe]

Three books a day, that's impressive! :D I also used to reread loads as a child—I would get obsessed with a book for a while and reread bits of it over and over—but nowadays my rereading is mostly limited to a few faves that I read once a year or so, and periodically picking up a Discworld book to reread.

[dolorosa_12]

Yes, I don't reread as much because despite having lived in the UK now for more than ten years, a substantial part of my collection of books is still back in Australia, and I'm not so likely to reread books that I discovered as an adult. All the childhood favourites have slowly made their way over here, though, so I do reread them from time to time.