What book would you love to be able to read again for the first time?
This is actually a bit of a tough question. I love re-reading so I don’t mind if I know what happens in a book. I have a bad memory anyway, so I forget little details and sometimes big ones if it’s been a few years. I would say, probably, that I’d like to read one of my ultimate favorites again for the first time, Jane Eyre or The Age of Innocence, just because I’ve read them so many times I don’t remember what it was like the first time I read them.
I think I’d also like to start over with two big fantasy series that I love. The first would be George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. Ideally this is because he’s ruthless with his characters and I’d like to forget who dies, who lives, and who comes back from dead, so I can be surprised again. I’d also probably wait several years until he’d finished. I’ve forgotten enough of the story that I’m going to have to reread all 4 chunksters in preparation for each new books. While I love them, it’s going to be time consuming and my TBR pile will not thank me.
The second fantasy series I’d choose would be the Kushiel’s Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey. I love this series to little tiny bits. It’s one of the few fantasy series I have made time to reread. It was very interesting to see what caught me the second time through as opposed to the first and I was glad that I knew what to expect from the third book, but I would love to experience them without preconceptions once again. I remembered quite a bit once I’d started reading. I’m glad that I have Naamah’s Kiss waiting so that I can happily experience a new story in the world I love so much, though!
What book would you like to read for the first time again?
sadly to say…I don’t any of that books
I have 4 books I want to read for the first time again
I’m with you on Jane Eyre. It’s one a revisit regularly. And I agree that rereading is a pleasure even if I know what’s coming!
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Jane Eyre would be good. As I’ve been reading the various answers to today’s BTT, I wonder if any of the books mentioned would have the same impact if they were read for the first time at a different point in the reader’s life. Just a thought.
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Jane Eyre and Pride & Prejudice. I feel like I am reacting to then differently now, as an adult. I wonder what I was thinking when I was reading them back then.
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I really need to read both of those fantasy series in the first place! They are on my TBR pile…
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Don’t know any of your books but it’s interesting to find new ones to add to my tbr
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Some books get better each time you read them. Jane Eyre is one of those for me.
I love Jane Eyre any time I re-read it.
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I definitely agree with you on liking to re-read (at least with some books). I forget little plot points too and continue to discover new things every time I read certain books.
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I haven’t heard of these. Here is A Second First Time
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It’s time for me to reread Jane Eyre…and The Age of Innocence is waiting on my shelf.
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I have Jane Eyre on my list too, a wonderful book!
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Books that have surprise ending or a twist would be refreshing to me. I also read my favorite books, like Name of the Rose and The Master and Margarita.
I loved Jane Eyre. Read it on my own as a young teen. I think it begs a re-read many years later!
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I have never read Jane Eyre but it is sitting on my bookshelf waiting for me to read it.
Here is my BTT post.
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Jane Eyre and The Age of Innocence are two of my favorite books, too. I literally read The Age of Innocence in one sitting. I haven’t gotten around to answering this week’s BTT meme yet, but Jane Eyre was one of the first books to leap to mind.
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I’m now inspired to read Jane Eyre again… still, life is too short to keep re-reading books … isn’t it? I always have mild guilt when I’m reaching for a familiar favourite!
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I reread all my favorite books on a regular basis, but I think the only books I’d wish I could have a second first time with would be the LHM. Mostly because I have no idea where those books end and mine/thene’s crazy interpretations of them begin any more
But I don’t think I’d want a second first for many other books; I love how familiar and comforting rereading a favorite is and I’d hate to lose that with my McKinley, and McCaffrey, and Carey books.