Dag, therealsnape! :D (My father's family is Dutch - I know only a few phrases, but I can understand more.)
Oh, heck yeah I re-read old favorites. Sometimes I re-read fairly often, sometimes it's years and years between re-reads. I sometimes feel torn, because there's always so many books in my TBR pile, and re-reading an old book doesn't help that at all. But sometimes I need the comfort and enjoyment of something I really treasured. There are books I've re-read so often *coughHarryPottercough* I can practically recite certain sections from memory. But that's also allowed me to challenge myself with reading HP in German: in places I might not normally have known what a word or phrase meant, I can figure it out because I know the original so well.
And sometimes I love a book so much, the minute I finish it I go back to the beginning and read it over right away. :D Knowing how it turns out means I can enjoy seeing clues and foreshadowing and such that I might have missed the first time, and it allows me to be part of that universe a little longer.
On the list: HP series, Maurice, the Whyborne & Griffin series, Autoboyography, the Earth's Children series (first 3 books, mostly), childhood favorites, The Phantom Tollbooth, and stuff I end up re-reading because, after reading it to myself, I read it aloud to my teen son (who has reading issues).
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on 2020-05-04 05:16 pm (UTC)Oh, heck yeah I re-read old favorites. Sometimes I re-read fairly often, sometimes it's years and years between re-reads. I sometimes feel torn, because there's always so many books in my TBR pile, and re-reading an old book doesn't help that at all. But sometimes I need the comfort and enjoyment of something I really treasured. There are books I've re-read so often *coughHarryPottercough* I can practically recite certain sections from memory. But that's also allowed me to challenge myself with reading HP in German: in places I might not normally have known what a word or phrase meant, I can figure it out because I know the original so well.
And sometimes I love a book so much, the minute I finish it I go back to the beginning and read it over right away. :D Knowing how it turns out means I can enjoy seeing clues and foreshadowing and such that I might have missed the first time, and it allows me to be part of that universe a little longer.
On the list: HP series, Maurice, the Whyborne & Griffin series, Autoboyography, the Earth's Children series (first 3 books, mostly), childhood favorites, The Phantom Tollbooth, and stuff I end up re-reading because, after reading it to myself, I read it aloud to my teen son (who has reading issues).