#Microblog Monday 511: Your Re-Reading List
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I recently started a new notebook (why do I count my life in notebooks?), and I added a new section to the lists I copy over each time: A re-watching and re-reading list.
It’s not that I don’t know what I like to re-watch or re-read, but seeing it listed out feels like a place I can turn when I am feeling out of sorts and need to remember that there is art that makes me feel better. So the Magician’s trilogy is on there. Thursday Murder Club books. Horowitz and Hawthorne books. Eight Ramona Quimbys. (What? It makes me feel good.) One Day and Us by David Nicholls.
I don’t even need to re-read the whole book. I just need to spend an hour with the characters or setting.
What is on your re-read/re-watch list?
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I don’t have enough time these days to read and watch the new things I want to read and watch, let alone re-runs…! But if I happen to stumble onto a an old movie I love on TV, I rarely change the channel. I will never get tired of seeing “Casablanca,” for one…!
As for books — off the top of my head, I would love to re-read my Elizabeth Peters mysteries some day — I did re-read “Legend in Green Velvet” a few years back, which was my favourite, and while it’s dated, I still loved it — great escapism! I feel like I need to put Susan Faludi’s “Backlash” into my TBR pile, because I haven’t read it since it first came out in the early 1990s, and I think it would probably (still) be highly relevant today.
Ooooh, what a great idea! Books I reread (not that I teach at school, because that’s cheating)… Definitely The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. I started rereading that one each decade. (but it has a different feel now, ugh) Beloved by Toni Morrison. Not particularly warm-and-fuzzy books, but beautifully written and powerful. I started rereading classics to see if my lens had changed, so The Great Gatsby made it there. And sometimes when I’m reading a series, I reread the books leading up to the newest (or vindictive pre-reading before a movie comes out), like Ember in the Ashes, and The Hunger Games, and Children of Blood and Bone. I want to reread the Raven Boys books by Maggie Steifvater, because they are beautiful and comforting in a weird way. And The House in the Cerulean Sea. If ever you need to feel a warm hug, rereading that one does it for me.