No. I am re-reading The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, because my brain wants florid, overwrought vampire comfort food.

Ahahahahaha!!! I rejected Queen of the Damned last night in favor of...

The Witching Hour. Trufax.

Oh god, I love The Witching Hour. It's my favorite Anne Rice. And it's been packed in a box in the garage for five years now. I almost broke and picked up a used copy two different times.

I nearly grabbed The Witching Hour for bathttime last night.

FEAR THE TEPPY-JILLI MIND MELD. FEAR US.

I do, I do!

dcp, my childhood involved my dad reading the Hobbit through the whole LotR trilogy to me over breakfast starting in kinder. I've never touched the books since, but I LOVED it. I've only seen the first movie, because while it got some things right, I didn't want it to displace any of my memories/mental visuals of what my dad's voice reading it created. Gollum wasn't quite right, and I still resent that.

eta: My mom would read me Laura Ingalls Wilder to me at night during the same period. I never watched the show. Seems to be a pattern.

No idea my first book, nor when I started reading, will have to ask my mom. We had/have tons of books. I only found out recently my mother HATED Dr. Seuss and suffered mightily through our love of them, but sees his value. They just make her a little bored out of her gourd.

I had this Howdy Doody book that I was obsessed with, and my mother hated. I can only remember as far back as being able to read it myself, but I'm sure I made her read it to me. It was hilarious! They made a big Howdy Doody out of food! Hilarious when you're 4, anyway...

Heh. Dad's Gollum-voice was pretty sinister, but very different from Andy Serkis's version.

Dad's put on his best faux-Cockney accent for the trolls Bert and Tom and William. Hilarious.

Stress/comfort rereader too. I have been rereading Harry Potter at night, but a few other things during the day

How many books are in that series? Is there a drop off? Are they all worth it?

There's, um, five in the initial Tomorrow series. There's a bit of a dropoff; the last one is still exciting, but rather a downer. But my very favorite set-piece (a wild ride involving infiltrating an airfield, blowing up the fueling airplanes, and escaping in a dumptruck pursued by machine-gun-wielding enemies) is in the 3rd or 4th book, I think.

There's a second series set after the end of the first, but while it's psychologically very plausible, it's also much less fun.

I do a lot of rereading: particularly Bujold & Pratchett these days. I have even bought audiobooks of books I've already read (Barrayar, The Curse of Chalion, Small Gods) because I find it soothing to listen to them.

Dad didn't do voices so much as intonation. Though I can hear his Gollum, slowly, slithery, lispy in my head...