The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.
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This Week’s Question
Is there a book you keep coming back to, reading it more than once?
The short answer to this is, at the moment, I don’t have a book that I keep coming back to. The main reason for that is since starting this blog and joining the bookish community I have become a bit of a book hoarder. So I have a lot of books that I haven’t read, which means in my limited free time I reach for something new.
To be honest, though, I’m not sure I’d reread anything right now. (Sometimes, though, I get a hankering to reread 1984 or FAHRENHEIT 451.) I think it’s a combination of so many books and too little time as well as just life overwhelm. And by that I mean as an adult I have to work full time and do all the adulting type things whereas when I was a kid I had all the time in the world to reread. I also had limited resources, so if I read everything I currently had, well, then a reread it was.
That said, the most recent books I’ve reached for more than once is the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. I’ve read most of them more than once, except for A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES because it’s long. I also don’t really like Nesta. Before that and way before a certain author showed her true colors, I used to reread HP all the time as a young adult.
How about you? Is there a book you reread periodically?
I’m not much of a re-reader, even when I was a kid, although in roughly the past two years I’ve done a bit more than usual. I think the books I’ve re-read the most for over a decade are Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion (though often not the entire book). They’re my ‘comfort’ reads!
I don’t reread anymore either, I just feel I’ll miss out on a book I haven’t read yet. I would love to take time and reread The Secret History by Donna Tart, and when I was much younger, I did reread Interview With the Vampire every year.
I reread much less than I used to! I’ve found my rereads are typically audiobooks, as I can zone out without getting lost and confused. I also tend to reread for comfort; they’re a centering tool for me if I’m in a funk to give me a reset with something predictable and with guaranteed enjoyment.
I’ve done that, too! Rereads in audiobook format are great. I haven’t done that recently, but when I did it was with the ACOTAR series, with the added bonus of having a full voice acting cast. It was nice to sort of zone out, as you said.
I reread from time to time, sometimes just for fun, sometimes when there’s a book group or other reason to do so. I’ve read Jane Austen’s book more than once, and was feeling the urge to pick one up again! I’ve read Outlander a few time now, and The Time Traveler’s Wife, and there are plenty more. 🙂
Im a bit like you and have so many new books on my shelves that I don’t really feel like I can fit too many rereads in. Unless its because I’m planning to read a sequel but need a refresher first. I do have some titles I’d love to pick up again sometime though. And a few others that I want to but am somewhat nervous about as its been so long that I’m scared they won’t live up to my memories of them 🙈
I’m typically a huge rereader, but lately I’ve been pushing myself to read new-to-me stuff to get my HUGE unread pile down. But the books I return to most often are the Harry Potter books, mostly because I reread them by audio and will pop one on when I don’t feel for music or podcasts but want something to listen to.
Same! I’ve been pushing myself to read new-to-me stuff as well because I have a big stack of unread physical books. But I keep getting sidetracked by library holds and ARCs.