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Do you re-read books? Why or why not?
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When I was younger I re-read lots of books. As a teen I had some books by Dorothy Martin. They were the Peggy series and I read that series till the books were almost falling apart. As an adult I don’t tend to re-read books unless by error. The main reason is I have so many books on my TBR pile I don’t have time to re-read books.
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I used to read all an author’s preceding books before I read their latest offering. That was before I started down my studying journey. Then I got distracted by opportunities to put my new skills into use, and life got busy.
I’m about to start reading in front of a camera as part of my strategy to create some kind of online connection with the children from both my schools. No lending libraries are going to be tough for stay-at-home readers.
as a child and teen I re read books. I read some of Enid Blyton’s books to the point I almost knew the story inside and out. The same with some teen books. As an adult I have re-read a few but often by error or skimmed to remember what was happening but as I mentioned my TBR pile is so big infact I recently sold a lot of books that hadn’t been read not cos I didn’t like the books but because I just didn’t have room for them. (some I have on the kindle)
This week I’ve re read 3 books – “Leota’s Garden” & “The Scarlet Thread” by Francine Rivers and “Return to Me” by Robin Lee Hatcher. I love re reading my books, I’ll read them over and over again. It like a visit with an old friend.
That’s nice you can revisit old friends. Thanks for stopping by.
Yes definitely! The ones I love anyway 🙂 Wouldn’t bother with the ones I didn’t.
Some I re-read because they’re old friends, some because they’re ‘comfort books’ which I turn to when life gets too much and I need an escape, some because there’s so much in them that it takes more than one reading to capture it all. But yes, love re-reading!
I understand the comfort books. As a teen I had some books I read every summer and can still remember reading on my bed on a very hot day.
I have kept some books that I just cant part with (some went to the church library so its like its still here)
I re-read books all the time. There are only so many books that I have space for and can afford, so I do like a good re-read.
I try to wait a while before re-reading a book, but there have been a few that I have read a couple of years in a row.
My fiction TBR pile is quite small – only recent purchases. Non-fiction is much bigger, but I also tend to read them slower. I’ll only have one fiction book on the go at a time, but I may have several non-fiction in progress.
Due to a lack of shelf space, I only keep books that I know I will re-read some day.
I used to reread my favourite books as a child, but since I’m all grown up, I’m too impatient to move on to the next ‘unread’ book. It’s the same with my huge collection of DVD’s – I watch them once, then move on to the next one. I rarely watch them twice. I could count on one hand the number of books I have put down and not bothered to finish, (badly written or just not my ‘type’,) but even then, I’ll skip to the back pages to find out how it ended.
Now, the only exception to ‘read it only once’ is The Bible. I read it from cover to cover then either start again or begin a new translation. I find it so helpful to cross reference translations to help me understand a particular verse which is confusing in one version, but written in a slightly different way in another and ‘the penny drops’. It is a ‘living’ word, and never gets tiresome! (and don’t get me started on reference books: Annals of the World, Concordance, Chuck Misslers Read the Bible in 24 Hours, books from Creation Ministries etc.)I used to work in a Christian bookshop – I was like a kid in a toyshop! I luuuvvv books!
I have to say I can rewatch dvd’s I normally buy ones I know I will rewatch. (have seen Gettysburg so many times I had to replace it). Also Christmas ones I rewatch. Right now I will probably start watching dvds as there is nothing to watch on tv except news.