Ooh, thanks for that link, Kate! I just subscribed.
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 9:20:10 am PDT #11994 of 28342
Because books.
Liese S. - Aug 18, 2010 9:23:58 am PDT #11995 of 28342
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, yeah, Bev, I'm definitely the same way. I reread a ton, but books are still evocative of the era and feel where I first discovered them. And people too! I know tons and tons of people who love Hitchhikers Guide, to the point where I use it as a litmus test for potential friends, but I will always associate the books with my elementary school friend (frenemy?) Jeff who introduced me to them.
Aims - Aug 18, 2010 9:26:05 am PDT #11996 of 28342
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Because Anne of Green Gables is SO closely attached to memories of my grandmother and my time with her, it took me a few years after her death to be able to read them again.
Kate P. - Aug 18, 2010 9:29:07 am PDT #11997 of 28342
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ooh, thanks for that link, Kate! I just subscribed.
Awesome!
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2010 9:36:46 am PDT #11998 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
She really doesn't get why I'd reread a book 30 or 40 times, which I have done quite often.
Me, too. And people generally boggle at the idea that I'd re-read a book AT ALL, let alone multiple times.
-t - Aug 18, 2010 9:39:21 am PDT #11999 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm not much of a re-reader, really, but I like owning my favorites so I can pull them off the shelf and look at the cover and remember reading them. Sometimes that leads to actual re-reading, but it's satisfying in it's own right.
Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2010 9:40:23 am PDT #12000 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, I'm at a point where I have so many books I haven't read that I want to read that re-reading seems like time better spent reading something new. That doesn't stop me from wanting to re-read a bunch of Christopher Pike books soon. At least they won't take long.
Liese S. - Aug 18, 2010 9:43:11 am PDT #12001 of 28342
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, I reread like mad. Pratchett stands up best to this.
And right, Aims. I also have trouble rereading after the death of the author. Like, I just now started rereading L'Engle for the first time since her death in 2007.
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 9:43:51 am PDT #12002 of 28342
Because books.
I'm with you, P-C. I have so much to be read, I've disallowed rereading unless it's a really, really bad day and I need an hour curled up with Sara Crewe or the March sisters or, oddly, Sylvia Plath's letters to her mother.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2010 9:51:35 am PDT #12003 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I have so much to be read, I've disallowed rereading
If I want to re-read something, my brain will generally not latch on to something new. I can't work up any interest in something new that I previously really wanted to read, *if* I'm currently wanting to re-read something. I can't explain it. My brain wants what it wants.