I was reminded this week of part of why I'm keeping my list of current readings on my blog: not only do I want to see what I read in a year, I want to see how many of the books are ones that I've reread. I'm rereading Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, which I haven't read since sophomore year of college. Even some new readings are inspired by old ones. For example, I read all four books in The Song of the Lioness Quartet (YA fiction, easy read, all 4 in one weekend) because it's by Tamora Pierce who wrote The Immortals Series which I read in jr. high and high school and which is still one of my favorites and what I would call some of my Safety Blankt Books. These are books I read probably once every two or three years (if not every year). I'm so familiar with some of them that I can sometimes just read selections or skim them and it still satisfies me. I have to have them with me wherever I live or I feel sad and lonely; they're mentally snuggly. I actually felt kind of depressed in my new apartment until I was able to put them on a bookcase and could SEE them. Hey! LET'S WRITE ANOTHER LIST!
Safety Blanket Books
The Immortals Series by Tamora Pierce
The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
The Stand, The Shining & Desperation by Stephen King ("You call those mentally snuggly?" Shug up.)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Do other people have Safety Blanket Books?
3 comments:
Little House on the Prairie (the whole series)
Anne of Green Gables (the whole series, pretty much)
From Anna, by Jean Little
The Chosen & The Promise by Chaim Potok
Christy, by Catherine Marshall
and I think Jane Eyre might become one too
and Lord of the Rings
and Ender's Game
The Little House on the Prairie series for sure though. Those are the ones I've read every year or every other year since 1st grade.
First of all I love that you have now coined the phrase "mentally snuggly". It's brilliant! I'm glad you are reading Till We Have Faces. Didn't we have to read it for Mallampalli's World Civ (bleeping forsaken class!) But, I love that book. So, my mentally snuggly for all the wrong reasons is the princess diaries series, but you probably already knew that.
Melissa: Dang! Little House on the Prairie!! That's a great one. I should add that. I also forgot the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary. I can't tell you how many times I've read Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
Kara: Yes, we read it for that class. I'll never know why, but I'm glad I was introduced to it. As to PD books...oh yes, I knew that. And I love you for it.
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