I didn't realise this thread went back to 2013 until tonight nightowl
Is wealth inequality causing the big issues of our day?
Why do hospitals, most of whom have large catchment areas, make accessing them so difficult?
I occasionally read books that I have enjoyed, again - years later. When I go back to them, I find that I have missed lots of enjoyable passages and interesting use of language in the pursuit of frantic page-turning to see what happens next.
I'm enjoying To Kill A Mocking Bird at the moment. I remember reading the story in the 80s, and have seen the film, with Gregory Peck as Atticus. This time, the book is coming alive in a deeper, richer way than when I first read it.
Any books that you would recommend from reading twice?
I didn't realise this thread went back to 2013 until tonight nightowl
Years ago I read a series of novels by Jane Duncan with the title My Friend (followed by a name). I decided to re-read them a few years back and was disappointed to find they were out of print so I was pleased to find they have just been re-issued mainly I think for the e-book market and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the first two and intend to read them all. They are available in paper back too at a price but at the usual Kindle prices.
Anyway I can recommend them to anyone looking for a good read.
Anything by Anne Tyler or Rumer Godden. I just take any one at random and think I must have read most of them at least 2 or 3 times.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Katherine by Anya Seyton.
I'm pleased to see that a lot of us have read Mockingbird! I love that book!
I recommend reading Diary of a Nobody by the Grossmiths more than once. It is even funnier the second, third or fourth time around. Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books are excellent for reading more than once as well. I'm glad auntbett reminded me of Rumer Godden. I used to love her books when I was much younger, now I will read them again.
Oh Ariadne, I love the Women's Room and you have prompted me to re-read it (for maybe the 4th time?): yes, it certainly had impact on me the first time around. I also love 'The Long Weekend' by Robert Graves and Alan Hodge. It is a good thick book that documents the social history of the years between the 2 World Wars. It covers such a range of topics that there is something to interest everyone.
Another favourite (which speaks to my love of computers) is 'Accidental Empires' by Robert X. Cringley. It tells the story of the rise of MicroSoft and Apple and the characters behind two of the world's biggest companies. It is written in such a relaxed style I felt like I was learning while being entertained - always a good thing.
Always re-read the classics have just finished yet again, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey. Currently reading Mansfield Park. Will re-read any Charles Dickens and read his Christmas stories at said time.Love lots of modern novels but somehow find the classics comforting.
I have read a lot, more than once,
Wuthering Heights
Gone with the Wind,
Animal Farm
Shane
Green Darkness
Wind in The Willows
Beatrix Potter
Winnie The Pooh
Alice in Wonderland, to name a few
Brief Candles, Happy Returns, Come and Go and the Far Traveller all by Manning Coles. Light hearted, funny stories about a pair of ghosts. I read them when I was young and hunted for them in every second hand bookshop I could find, then discovered that they had been reprinted in USA with a different author's name.
Also The Roselynde Chronicles, Knights Honour and other history books by Roberta Gellis. I read the whole series every now and again and am swept back to the time of Richard the Lionheart.
Gosh!, I first read to kill a mockingbird as part of my English lessons at school and have always named that as one of my favourites I wonder how many of you read it at the same time?. My favourite reread books are the kite runner which I have read countless times and for easy going off to sleep reading I will always pick up a year in Provence or the olive grove both lovely peaceful books, the most memorable book to me though is a crack in forever which made me sob a beautiful book but I couldn't reread it as it really did upset me!
Daffydil. What a pleasure to read of someone else who loves My Friends. There are 21 books altogether and I read all of them every year. The final one is called Letter From Reachfar. It is a collection of questions often asked of the author who gives comprehensive answers so that you know how much is autobiographical. I feel I know her intimately, and planned to write to her one day. I was sad to find that she died in the 70s. I quoted her at my Mother's funeral." That which we love we cannot lose." You have a lot of pleasure ahead. Enjoy.
Wuthering Heights. From my first reading of it as a young girl, I have read it 13 times over the years!!!
I see this is an old thread but some topics will go on for ever like our reading.
angmhay I too have read Wuthering Heights many, many times but I've never counted. Also Alice in Wonderland, Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations to name some others. This year I reread 'To Kill a Mockingbird' before going to see the play in Manchester.
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver - and most of her books
The Golden Notebook -Doris Lessing
All of Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy, and her non fictional The Nature of Alexander. I greatly admire the depth of her knowledge of Alexander the Great and his campaigns and she really knows how to tell a good story. Always worth a re-read. Also her Theseus novels. Unputdownable!
I can't stop reading The Lady in the Van!
Silas Marner and Pride and Prejudice
I just loved PURE by Andrew Morton and have read it 4 times ! Set in 17C Paris it is the story of the main characters attempts to re locate the Graveyard which is so full of bodies it is poisoning the air . A truly wonderful and unusual read .
The Five year diary by Bernice Rubins
The Shipping News by Annie Proux
The accidental Tourist ( can`t remember the author )
All Jane Austen, more than twice; Middlemarch; Jane Eyre; The Wind in the Willows; Dorothy L Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories; Steinbeck's Travels with Charely; quite a lot of Graham Greene. And any book I've had to teach, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath.
All Jane Austen, more than twice; Middlemarch; Jane Eyre; The Wind in the Willows; Dorothy L Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories; Steinbeck's Travels with Charely; quite a lot of Graham Greene. And any book I've had to teach, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath.
All Jane Austen, more than twice; Middlemarch; Jane Eyre; The Wind in the Willows; Dorothy L Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories; Steinbeck's Travels with Charely; quite a lot of Graham Greene. And any book I've had to teach, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath.
Goodness knows how that happened!
F77. The Accidental Tourist was written by Anne Tyler. The film version was good too.
The Rainbow by DH Lawrence. I love the richness of the language but I don't always get what he is telling us. One day I will really understand it.
Thanks Pat ! yes I liked the film too. The shipping news was also made into a film and that was brill and very well cast x
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