tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post7108856954320544346..comments2024-03-28T09:03:53.875-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: Keep Calm and Read OnJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-21294122154878841542014-01-31T12:49:51.324-05:002014-01-31T12:49:51.324-05:00Just checked all the responses since late yesterda...Just checked all the responses since late yesterday afternoon, and I see that many of my favorites that I forgot to mention are listed here by others! How great it is to find that so many of us have had a love of the same books long before we "met" each other here!Deb Romanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-14780593899587625652014-01-31T12:38:21.925-05:002014-01-31T12:38:21.925-05:00C.S. Lewis is a biggie, though I know the books by...C.S. Lewis is a biggie, though I know the books by heart, and Patricia Wentworth is always a comfort, as are Agatha C. and Ngaio Marsh. All often read and well loved.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14411677147768542761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-71995103100868035442014-01-31T11:38:42.816-05:002014-01-31T11:38:42.816-05:00I definitely reread for comfort. A lot. Anything...I definitely reread for comfort. A lot. Anything from childhood favorites to fantasy, mysteries, and romance. One of my top comfort books is Nancy Atherton's <i>Aunt Dimity's Death.</i> Also Laurie R. King's Mary Russell novels, especially <i>The Beekeeper's Apprentice</i>. And <i>The Secret Garden</i>, <i>Anne of Green Gables</i>, Susan Cooper, Tamora Pierce, Madeleine L'Engle, the Narnia books, Anne McCaffrey, Tolkien, David Eddings, the Harry Potter books, Dick Francis, Ngaio Marsh, Ellis Peters, Mary Stewart, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mary Balogh... the list goes on and on. I won't be surprised to see Deborah and Rhys on it in a few years - once I get through everything they've written for the first time!<br /><br />In particularly tough years, I've done at least twice as much re-reading as new reading. I got into the habit as a child, when I didn't get many new books and library trips weren't frequent enough to support my habit. But there's something very comforting and relaxing in reading a book you know well. Lark @ The Bookwyrm's Hoardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08639732368395025578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-77761988679744114782014-01-31T08:41:40.516-05:002014-01-31T08:41:40.516-05:00Congrats to the Agatha-nominated Reds! No surprise...Congrats to the Agatha-nominated Reds! No surprises there! I'm with the camp who can't understand why people don't re-read. Moving over the years, I've pared down my books to absolute favorites--all to be enjoyed over and over. <br /><br />Reine--Harry Potter is comforting--because the writing is so good--the world and characters so vivid. Before Harry? The Belgariad. As a kid, Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series. Other favorites: Martha Grimes' The Old Silent, Barbara Michaels' Vanish with the Rose, Katherine Howe's The Physic Book of Deliverance Dane. Christie's Miss Marple, Sayers. My all-time favorite: The Blue Sword.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-63283418000362567562014-01-31T08:27:40.119-05:002014-01-31T08:27:40.119-05:00I always turn to D.E. Stevenson's work when I ...I always turn to D.E. Stevenson's work when I need a comfort read. I've been doing this since the late 60s when she was still alive and writing. I also often turn to a good mystery as I think she did also. I'm so glad I just heard about this blog!Thickethouse.wordpresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17187303460677067276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-52315005172706953122014-01-31T07:50:42.815-05:002014-01-31T07:50:42.815-05:00I, too, a fan of Barbara Pym and hope to visit her...I, too, a fan of Barbara Pym and hope to visit her grave, if back in that vicinity one day. No Fond Return of Love my favorite.<br /><br />Don't often reread, but The Shipping News I would enjoy again.<br /><br />Secret Garden I've reread since a girl.Liz P.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-80698214508614557842014-01-31T05:37:16.756-05:002014-01-31T05:37:16.756-05:00I love books that I can dive into and escape from ...I love books that I can dive into and escape from reality! My comfort books are the fictional ones set in WW2 with spies & code breaking etc.<br />A book is always better when accompanied by some good food or drink....or both!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793042967535800180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-42428861161057943402014-01-31T01:17:34.158-05:002014-01-31T01:17:34.158-05:00It's encouraging to see Georgette Heyer[dahl ;...It's encouraging to see Georgette Heyer[dahl ;)] come up twice, since those are the books I'm currently reading (for the first time). B&N had all her nook books on sale a while back and I splurged!April (HaveBooksNeedTime)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-66188066721065744832014-01-30T23:58:19.209-05:002014-01-30T23:58:19.209-05:00I hate autocorrect! Georgette Heyerdahl? Boo! I al...I hate autocorrect! Georgette Heyerdahl? Boo! I also re-read all The Lord Peter books every year. Dorothy Sayers is hard to beat. I am almost as hooked now on Molly Murphy and Lady Georgie!Bev Fontainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-47850392489412157642014-01-30T23:10:15.112-05:002014-01-30T23:10:15.112-05:00I really don't reread much, but the two I pick...I really don't reread much, but the two I pick up when I need something comforting are Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and Voyager. The first story, of course, and the third, because I love the scene when they meet again. I've read them so many times they are old friends.<br /><br />The other book I keep intending to reread (but still haven't) is Between Silk and Cyanide, by Leo Marks. It's the true account of his efforts to improve codemaking techniques for British spies during World War II. (The title comes from his request for silk so the operatives could keep a set of code keys. They were to tear off the used ones to keep them from falling into enemy hands. Without silk, Marks said, the only alternative was cyanide.)briddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03408194558353647354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-73716674158281178282014-01-30T22:44:40.489-05:002014-01-30T22:44:40.489-05:00Debs, I think we must be sisters separated at birt...Debs, I think we must be sisters separated at birth! I read a d re-read Dick Francis, Elizabeth Peters and Georgette Heyerdahl till I can practically recite them. I passed all my childhood Trixie Belden books to my youngest daughter and she re-reads them and Dick Francis over and over. Also, I must have an annual read of Jane Eyre without fail.Bev Fontainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-48388627810086802422014-01-30T22:31:59.022-05:002014-01-30T22:31:59.022-05:00More comments, more beloved books - Agatha, MS Say...More comments, more beloved books - Agatha, MS Sayers, Margery Allingham - I read so many novelizations of the Arthurian legend...Stephen Lawhead, TH White, Mary Stewart, Patricia Kenneally... I have at least seventy five books. Guy Gavriel Kay incorporated it into his Fionavar Tapestry, a trilogy which also has echoes of other cultural myths and is so beautifully and poignantly written that every time I reread them, I still cry so hard at the sad bits that I cannot see the words. I made all of my reading friends read it, even those who do not like romance or fantasy. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12092964240854923668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-3658330120813693112014-01-30T22:24:32.501-05:002014-01-30T22:24:32.501-05:00Oh, wow, Elizabeth Peters. I am so sad that there ...Oh, wow, Elizabeth Peters. I am so sad that there will be no more Amelia Peabody or Vicky Bliss - I reread every one of them. I have all the Amelias in hardcover...I love the series books - mention was made of Sue Grafton and Martha Grimes - who is more fun than Melrose Plant? I love Anne Perry's books. I love Rhys Bowen's books and Susan Elia MacNeil's books. I am reading the latest Donna Leon, I have the latest Linda Fairstein backing up - as well as Alex Cross's latest cases. The people in these books are part of a world that I visit - a vacation resort to which I return regularly to see old friends and find out what's new with their lives. I laugh with them, cry with them worry with them, get angry with them. The best part is that in this world, there is always a measure of justice. When these authors release new books, I preorder them and use them as rewards. I used to have to wait until the book was delivered on the release date - but now, it just shows up on my Nook shelf.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12092964240854923668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-19523581349348400762014-01-30T22:14:56.514-05:002014-01-30T22:14:56.514-05:00LOVED Trixie Belden, and Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, A...LOVED Trixie Belden, and Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Alfred Hitchcok and the Three Investigators... My granmother had her childhood books in her house and I read books from the 1920s - Ruth Fielding and the original Bobbsey Twins volumes. I loved Cherry Ames - I read and reread these books from ages 7 through my late teens. A few years ago, I found reprints of some of the Bobbsey Twins books and bought them, read them and shipped them to my sister. I bought my niece a set of four Nancy Drews (tried to find Trixie, no luck). My very first chapter book, which I bought with my own money at age seven was "The Bobbsey Twins Mystery in Japan" - to this day, I can save a goldfish that has leapt out of his bowl. Harlequins had me convinced that Australia was populated by tall, taciturn sheep station owners with piercing blue/gray/green eyes, and I still like to read the occasional Regency by an old favorite author. Comfort reads are English Cozy Mysteries and when I am really depressed, I pull out P.G. Wodehouse, in particular Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. All I have to do is start reading about the baby contest and I am laughing out loud - Wodehouse dragged me out of an abyss in the aftermath of 9/11...better than drugs, or booze or even shrinks(also less costly)<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12092964240854923668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-12513063486782107922014-01-30T21:32:30.448-05:002014-01-30T21:32:30.448-05:00I am not usually a re-reader, but Jane Austen'...I am not usually a re-reader, but Jane Austen's books (except Mansfield Park), JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions, and Kathleen Flinn's The Sharper the Knife the Less You Cry are my comfort reads. <br /><br />Curling up with a good book is my nightly wind-down. Often during tough days, looking ahead to an evening of comfortable pajamas and reading has been a great comfort.Shannonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-41882519026927677492014-01-30T21:13:41.280-05:002014-01-30T21:13:41.280-05:00Most re-read: The Hobbit, A Year in Provence (a fa...Most re-read: The Hobbit, A Year in Provence (a favorite in-flight read), P&P,anything by Miss Read. Among my fave authors: you Miss Susan Elia MacNeal, M.C. Beaton, Jacqueline Winspear, Alan Bradley, Elizabeth George. Common themes? Love a good DBB - dead body book. <br /><br />My brother has been a life-long technical reader but took up fiction a couple of years ago. He also loves a good DBB - Ian Rankin is a favorite. When I learned he was reading fiction I felt a whole new corner had been added to his life. Not enough apparently that he was already a musician, painter and a bit of a poet. ;-] A Scatteringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071957279379194840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-54644404534362507922014-01-30T20:57:43.429-05:002014-01-30T20:57:43.429-05:00What a great conversation! I'm returning to ma...What a great conversation! I'm returning to make a list. When I saw the picture of Home Cooking my hands started waving involuntarily.<br /><br />Like many others my comfort reading is Colwin, Jane Austen, Barbara Pym, Little House on the Prairie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Jane Austen Book Club, P.G. Wodehouse (anything with Jeeves and Bertie or the Blandings Castle crowd) East of Eden ( but years between and I can hardly bear Adam Trask.) Cold Comfort Farm, I Captured the Castle<br /><br />Now, I didn't see anyone mention a particular favorite and that's the Mapp and Lucia series by E.F. Benson. If you enjoy Austen, Pym and or Wodehouse you will love these. Set between the Wars and pure, delight. Frothy but smart. You're welcome.Alison Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06828978350435386724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-27142081926681214262014-01-30T20:26:16.728-05:002014-01-30T20:26:16.728-05:00I reread bunches. I cannot even begin to count ho...I reread bunches. I cannot even begin to count how many times I've read A Wrinkle in Time. Most recently was when I read it aloud to my younger daughter, who loves it - even though it's a bit more mind stretching than most middle grade fiction. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-40495473204680743322014-01-30T19:58:26.726-05:002014-01-30T19:58:26.726-05:00I reread constantly - but the books depend on my m...I reread constantly - but the books depend on my mood. I know what books to choose depending on what frame of mind I want to get into - or out of! I particularly love long series, so that I can dive in at one end and stay immersed in the world for several books. Generally when a new book by a favorite author comes out I start at the beginning and read all the previous ones before reading the new title (made the wait for each Harry Potter book much more bearable!)<br />Some favorites are David Eddings, the Little House books, Catherine Asaro, Jasper Fforde (books about living in books, what could be better??), Kage Baker, Connie Willis, Robert Crais, Neal Stephenson, Patricia Kennealy Morrison, Elizabeth Peters... I should stop now but I could go on!<br /><br />Right now I've just finished the double header of Deanna Raybourn's Lady Julia Grey books and Tasha Alexander's Lady Emily series, which I seem to always read together...Kimmeriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11198875300932810192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-4262944427904407202014-01-30T19:56:10.982-05:002014-01-30T19:56:10.982-05:00I recently reread The Hobbit with my eight year ol...I recently reread The Hobbit with my eight year old son, then went on to reread the Lord of the Rings on my own. So much there that I missed as a teenager! Then I was just following the narrative, now there's so much more to ponder...Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.suaneliamacneal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-66557154296445066832014-01-30T19:39:12.295-05:002014-01-30T19:39:12.295-05:00I'm really trying to tackle the out-of-control...I'm really trying to tackle the out-of-control TBR piles, but in my heart of hearts, I love to reread. Favorites include the Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, and Harry Potter series, plus Jane Austen and Jack London. I had the first Trixie Belden book when I was young and about read it to pieces; I need to look into the rest of that series. And I've been meaning to revisit J.R.R. Tolkien, Sharon Kay Penman and Margaret Frazer as well. {{panics}}April (HaveBooksNeedTime)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-66752919326410062722014-01-30T19:07:52.896-05:002014-01-30T19:07:52.896-05:00Pride and prejudice is a huge one for me. But for ...Pride and prejudice is a huge one for me. But for years I would re-read agatha christies over and over. i found them to be the most comforting reading so right when i wanted to go to sleep i would pull one out and read to help me go to sleep. i have read all of them multiple times. it's one of the weirdest things my husband and i have in comon. EmilyKleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285328754910740990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-12391463465689895052014-01-30T18:36:34.319-05:002014-01-30T18:36:34.319-05:00Comfort reads...as a younger person, I re-read the...Comfort reads...as a younger person, I re-read the first three Trixie Belden novels over and over, and also The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snider was a favorite re-read. When I got older, and to the present, it's usually a Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters book. Anything in the Vicky Bliss series falls into comfort zone reading, as does the Georgetown trilogy. Also Joan Hess' Maggody series, James Heriott, and for some odd reason, Auntie Mame. Shelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763944794673350184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-28161657497059477122014-01-30T18:35:03.141-05:002014-01-30T18:35:03.141-05:00I've read "Jane Emily" by Patricia C...I've read "Jane Emily" by Patricia Clapp every year since I was 12 and discovered it in my aunt's summer cottage on Cape Cod. Each time, I'm back in that cottage, on that rainy day, diving deeper and deeper into this gothic young adult romance. I can't wait until the weather warms and I pull it out for this year's reading! Jen Stockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06439895073534172341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-56679089518798705682014-01-30T18:34:26.013-05:002014-01-30T18:34:26.013-05:00My favorite books to reread (at least once every t...My favorite books to reread (at least once every two years) are Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series. I first read book 1 in preparation for my inaugural trip to San Francisco, and, just like MaryAnn Singleton, I fell in love with the city....if only I could pack up and move there like she did!Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315892175094516900noreply@blogger.com