Writer's Block: Play it again, e-reader
Jun. 24th, 2011 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Oh, goodness. Why collect books if you're not going to reread them? You can get them from the library if you're only going to read them once. I have books in every room in my house except the upstairs bathroom (I do have them in the downstairs bathroom/laundry room, though -- that's where my cookbooks live).
My main annual rereads (actually re-listens) are the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold (at the moment Miles just got hauled off Kyril Island for mutinying in The Vor Game) and the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters (see icon -- the quote's from the second book in the series, The Curse of the Pharoahs -- and Barbara Rosenblat reads that particular line in a way that makes me crack up every time).
I reread a lot of my favorite romances. And mysteries. And SF. And gothics. And even a few books that I loved as a child (the later Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace, the Anne of Green Gables books by L.M. Montgomery, and, especially, the Melendy books by Elizabeth Enright).
Rereading is like visiting with old friends. So much so that I have to deliberately make room in my reading/listening for new titles, because otherwise I won't find new friends.
Oh, goodness. Why collect books if you're not going to reread them? You can get them from the library if you're only going to read them once. I have books in every room in my house except the upstairs bathroom (I do have them in the downstairs bathroom/laundry room, though -- that's where my cookbooks live).
My main annual rereads (actually re-listens) are the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold (at the moment Miles just got hauled off Kyril Island for mutinying in The Vor Game) and the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters (see icon -- the quote's from the second book in the series, The Curse of the Pharoahs -- and Barbara Rosenblat reads that particular line in a way that makes me crack up every time).
I reread a lot of my favorite romances. And mysteries. And SF. And gothics. And even a few books that I loved as a child (the later Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace, the Anne of Green Gables books by L.M. Montgomery, and, especially, the Melendy books by Elizabeth Enright).
Rereading is like visiting with old friends. So much so that I have to deliberately make room in my reading/listening for new titles, because otherwise I won't find new friends.
