30 Days of Books: Day 12

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Day 12 – A book or series of books you’ve read more than five times

This isn’t really a fair question to ask someone like me, because I re-read books a lot. It’s like sliding into a pair of perfectly broken in jeans or shoes, creeping between the covers of a perfectly made comfy bed on a cold night, snuggling in with a soft blanket. It’s just… comfortable. It’s why I prefer to own books, instead of just check them out of the library. I want them on hand so I can dip into them again and again. I like new stuff, too, but I revisit the old frequently.

What I’ve re-read recently is the first two (only two) books in the Gentleman Bastard series, Sarah Monette’s The Doctrine of Labyrinths and Bone Key, The Dark is Rising series, the Damar books, Ellen Kushner’s stuff, Delia Sherman’s stuff, and Sense and Sensibility.

Lest you think I dwell too much on books already read, instead of moving forth and consuming recent books, I will remind you that I read very, very quickly. I read The Hunger Games literally in one day. Granted, it’s YA and not, say, A Feast for Crows (much longer, more going on, an appendix for people and places). But still. I read quickly.

What are some of the books YOU revisit time and again?