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.

Ooh, thanks for that link, Kate! I just subscribed.

Awesome!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can't read new stuff at night. It keeps me up too late.

I plan to buy that Thurber collection(because we asked for it.) to read at night. Of course, some of them won't be as good without the voices and whatnot.