We had a discussion recently on my favorite website, Readers Paradise, about rereading books. I'm not one to reread books very often. I will reread a book for my book club if I've read it too many months before the discussion is set to take place. Sometimes this dampens my enthusiasm for the book. Other times, I get more out of the second reading than I did from the first. I just reread The Hunger Games for this month's discussion. I enjoyed it just as much as the first time. But when I reread Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, I was disappointed and wished I hadn't revisited that story. One book I have read several times, by choice, is Sarah Canary.
Some people, it seems, find great comfort in rereading books. It's almost like comfort food for them. In fact, some even have their favorites that they revisit every year. One woman mentioned that she had reread the Lord of the Rings series 19 times!
What about you - do you reread books? Do you have favorites that you revisit on a regular basis? How do you decide which books are worthy of a reread?
