Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I have or would reread

/ Lisa R. Howeler

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday July 8: Books I’d Like to I Re-read (Share either your favorite books that you enjoy re-reading or books that you’d like to read again!) (Submitted by Becky @ Becky’s Book Blog)

I don’t reread books a lot but there a few I would read again, and I guess for this post, I need to come up with ten that I have reread or would reread. I think I can do that.

  1. The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

It took me until last year to read this book and I ended up loving it. I would love to reread it again this year and I probably will.

2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I know! So cliché! But here is another one that I read late in life and now I want to read it again because it was so lovely and cozy and interesting. I never imagined I’d get so wrapped up in these characters. I used to roll my eyes at people who would gush about this book and the movies based on it and then I read it. Oh, my! I understand the gushing now.

3. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

This book is just as sweet and touching as the Hallmark movie from the 1990s was, which is how I first knew about the story. Of course, the book came first. I didn’t read the book until I read it to my daughter a couple of years ago and I just loved it. I also loved the sequels, especially Skylark.

4. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

I have read this one more than once and I could read it again and again. There is always something new that I pick up on in it. I have also read Shepherd’s Abiding, the Christmas book more than once but now I read certain sections that are my favorite instead of the whole book.

5  The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

I read this one several years ago with my son and I would like to reread it but I have to finish The Lord of the Rings trilogy first. I have The Return of the King to read next.

6. The Cat Who Saw Ghosts by Lilian Jackson Braun

This is my favorite book of this series. It’s a lot different than the others in the series and sometimes I wonder if Lilian wrote it. The main character, Qwill, shows even more of his personality in this one and even shows his tenderness toward a young child in the book. The story/mystery is also a solid one. As with any long running series, there are aways going to be duds along the way, but this was not one of them.

7. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I first read this book in sixth grade by myself and again in eighth grade, though I don’t remember reading it in eighth grade. I know it was part of our curriculum but I guess my teacher wasn’t very memorable in her teaching. I remember she said, “What do you mean you’ve already read it?” She was surprised a sixth grader had taken it upon herself to read something so deep and advanced, I suppose, and I didn’t do that very often but in this case, I did read it because my mom suggested it and then started to read it to me in her southern accent. After I heard her Southern accent reading it, that’s how I heard the narrator (Scout) for the rest of the book.

I know I didn’t understand the intricacies of the message of this book when I was a child so reading it again as an adult about three years ago with my son for his English was a much different experience. I sobbed through the second half of the book as an adult because I understood so much more about the story, about Atticus, about the world and the ugliness and also goodness, the third time around. It is a book I think needs to be read several times for the message to really  hit home.

8. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

This is another book that I read at an age that other kids these days probably wouldn’t have read it. I did not do that a lot so don’t let me mislead you into thinking I read a ton of classics or harder books as a child. I did this occasionally and this one was one of those. The language is a challenge since it is written in the 1800s, but I really had fun with the story.  It was a lot of fun, much more so than Huckleberry Finn, which had a lot of serious moments mixed in with the adventure. I liked Huck Finn too, though. I hope to read this one again at some point soon.

9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This is a book I read for the first time with my daughter last year. I would read it again because I truly enjoyed the story, even the harder parts I didn’t like in the movie version I saw as a child. I wanted a bit more from the ending but I really enjoyed the other parts of the book and could see myself reading it again.

10. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

This is a book with a lot of tough subjects, but one I haven’t read since I was about 11. I would like to read it again because I have a feeling it will hit me in a different way, similar to the way To Kill A Mockingbird did. I actually have this as one book I want to read this summer.

Are there books that you have reread or want to reread? Or are you more of a one and done person like I usually am?

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23 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I have or would reread”

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  4. TKAM and LITTLE WOMEN are two of my favorite novels of all time. I reread them every few years just because I love them so much! THE SECRET GARDEN is also on my list this week. I *think* I read it as a child, but it’s possible I didn’t. Either way, I’m hoping to read it this year. Enjoy your rereads!

    Happy TTT (on a Thursday)!

    Susan

    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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  5. I have always re-read a lot. Some books are soul food for me and perfect in certain times. It’s great if a book doesn’t lose its magic with a re-read. Sometimes I don’t read the whole book, but a favorite chapter or maybe just the ending.
    Some of the books on your list have been re-reads for me.

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    • I refuse to read the sequel. Harper Lee was in a home and tricked into signing paperwork to have that published. She never would have done that. So you can’t talk about it with me. 😬😂😂

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    • Also! Please don’t read my comment above as an admonishment of you for reading it. It’s a personal conviction on my part not that I feel others shouldn’t read it. It’s just my personal preference to not read it after reading about how it came to be published.

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      • Oh, I don’t. I had no idea about that. I read it because I loved TKAM so very much. It was a huge disappointment so don’t feel like you’ve missed anything. Now that you tell me the history behind its publishing, it makes me wonder just how much of it she actually wrote and with how much conviction. To Kill a Mockingbird is just such an amazing book and an excellent movie, too.

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        • There is a lot of information here. I can’t find the original article I read about it but the thought is that this was a rough draft or TKAM and was never meant to be published. Harper said she’d never publish another book and her sister and caretaker died right before it was announced this would be published. Harper was 89 and in a nursing home – it’s a mess.

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  9. I have actually re-read The Hobbit several times so I should have had it on my list today. However, I have never finished a Lord of the Rings book even though I have tried a couple of times.

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    • They are all worth rereads. There are mystery books I might would reread even though I know the mystery but usually I don’t read books more than once for some reason. I’m weird I guess.

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      • I used to reread books a lot but about 15 years ago or so I just stopped and I don’t think I’ve ever reread another book since. That’s when we really started visiting the library at least once (if not twice!) a week. Up until then I often just reread what I already had on my shelves to stop myself from spending money.

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  13. Someone else mentioned Little Women and I would like to reread it as well. My book club read To Kill a Mockingbird this year and it was my first time reading it. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, if it hadn’t been told in Scout’s perspective I wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much. It’s been ages since I read The Secret Garden, I don’t think my kiddos liked it as much as I did as a kid, but I think I would like to reread it as well.

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