"I've never taken to the taste of tears / they always bring up those impossible years"

[larryhammer]

So far this year, I have reread:

• King of Thorn v1-3 by Yuji Iwahara, as part of reading the whole series at once
  
• Kare Kano v1-12 by Masami Tsuda, ditto*
  
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, because I hadn't since I was twelve
  
• Don Juan by Lord Byron, because it was (past) time to
  
• The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold, because I don't very often
  
• Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold, ditto
  
• Bunny Drop v1 by Yumi Unita, several times, because I love it so
  
• Yotsuba&! v1 by Kiyohiko Azuma, this time in Japanese
  
• Making Sense of Japanese by Jay Rubin, because I'm trying to
  
• All About Particles by Naoko Chino, this time testing my reading comprehension on the example sentences
  
• Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image by Joshua Mostow, because I was studying it

* Though I didn't actually finish it before being interrupted by vacation. Oops.

What do you find yourself rereading this year? And why?

ETA: I should probably have sat on this post another day to give my thoughts time to unpack. I'm currently pondering rereading in general and how what I'm rereading is changing, and how what I'm getting out of it is changing. And wondering if this is the same for others.

---L.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Too many to mention, but I love rereads!

[larryhammer]

How about a more selective question: is what you're rereading this year different from in the past, and if so, how?

---L.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

No. I reread broadly pretty much all the time, for reasons capricious (mood) or because I feel I need to for some reason or another.

Like within the past two days, I reread a Dortmunder and Churchill's Early Years.

Ha!

[tabouli.livejournal.com]

The Belgariad. When I heard recently that David Eddings died last year, I decided a ceremonial rereading was the least I could do. I LOVED the Belgariad as a fourteen-year-old. Oh, there's all sorts of things it does badly, and recycling the plot in the Malloreon was really lazy storytelling, but hey, it's fantasy with humour. All too rare.

Re: Ha!

[larryhammer]

There's a lot of people who like those books a lot. And that's a reasonable way to memorialize him.

---L.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head, I, Claudius (both books), a handful of Hammett and Chandler, and I'm presently time-sharing a reread of The Name of the Rose.

[larryhammer]

Er, how do you time-share a book? Pass it back and forth?

---L.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Maybe it would be more accurate to say that the book is sharing me with several other books. The Mutiny on the HMS Bounty in the smallest room, Agatha Christie at mealtimes, "Twelfth Night" on odd occasions, and Name of the Rose when I pick up my Sony Reader. Plus a stack of music and music reference books are off to one side here for when I'm in the writing phase of the 1000 Songs project.

[larryhammer]

Oh that kind of time-share. That's normal, innit?

---L.