Do You Ever Re-Read Your Keepers?

impolite version is "Well DUH Vince, of course I reread them what's the point of making them keepers otherwise!" )

If I'm only going to reread a book less than five times, I don't consider it a keeper

The keepers are the ones that I've reread or tend to reread at least ten times a year (and there are some that are reread once a week rather than once a month) but I don't generally count those for the Challenge

It used to be all my books were keepers, and the old favourites have been read upwards of five hundred or more times, with those I pick them up open at any page and read to the end then read from the beginning again to the point where I "started" it - that's when you spot the details you've never noticed before

You did ask

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Sadhbh 

I label books KEEPERS so that I have la creme de la creme (imo) to recommend to friends and eventually re-read myself.  When I read 100s of books, it's good to be able to sort out what books were PURE GENIUS (and I have two books that I've labelled "completely offensive plot imo, never read again" lol)  I do intend to eventually come back to my keeper list, and re-read the odd keeper because hell, if i enjoyed it so much the first time, it's a sure fire read that I know I'll love the second time (if i am in a bad mood or have no new books or good books, I'll go back to the keepers)

I have one keeper book that I have read so many times that I have lworn out 3 copies.  It's the Middle English version of Sir Thomas Malory ed. by Vinaver.  I have several books like that.  I don't get a lot of time for rereading but often I do reread marked passages and my notes with passages before I write a review. 

I do keep quite a few books although I apparently don't reread like others do.  I keep books if they are  in a series I plan to continue reading and I need to refresh my memory or even just scan the book to verify details, etc.  I also keep books that I may one day read again but haven't necessarily done so.  I've found that as soon as I get rid of a book assuming I'll never reread it, I end up spending the money to repurchase it so it's just as easy to keep.  I actually have two series I intend to reread sometime soon~ the Sherrilyn Kenyon one (to see how the pieces fit)  and the LKH Anita Blake series (since some swear I'd like the later books if I read them back to back; I don't think so but I'm going to give it a try).  I also have reread James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell books when they've had some stunners to see if the details fit (they did in the Patterson but not in the Cornwell). 

I re-read books too but it is not as often now as it used to be. Most of my re-reads are books by my long time favorite authors, Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, Jayne Ann Krentz, but there are others too. Just looking up at my hardcover bookshelf, I see Naked In Death and I've read that at least three times. Also Nora's Chesapeake Bay series. I've read each book at least three times. Julie Garwood's The Secret and For The Roses have been read at least twice. I've read most of Nora's, Linda's and Jayne's Silhouettes at least twice and some three or four times. I just read The Desert Lord's Baby by Olivia Gates and I know I will want to read it again.

Margie :)

I reread my keepers, but like many not as much as I use to.  I do cull my keepers as well.  I use to keep all the books of certain authors, now I hold off, some I just read at the library.  I also got rid of some older keepers - sometimes I wish I still had them, but not enough to rebuy.

Cady

I wouldn't keep them if I didn't reread them. Right now I'm reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood books for the sixth time. I don't know why, but even with my growing tbr pile I had to stop everything and reread these books again.

I keep everything, even those I don't plan to reread, because I am crazy.  Also, I lend them out to friends.

I do have many, many books I reread, though, and some I've reread more than twenty times.  Generally these are literary type books, which I reread to savour the language, or my comfort reads, which are well-written books with characters and plots I love (often these are books I read as a kid).  

Some of my favourite rereads include: Sharon Shinn's Archangel, Charles de Lint's Memory and Dream, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Kelley Armstrong's Bitten...and many more.  Dragonsong and a few other of McCaffrey's I've read almost every year since I was nine.

I'm new to Harlequin (been reading them for fewer than three years) but I expect to have a few favourite rereads from the Bombshells (Evelyn Vaughn, Cindy Dees, Ruth Wind), Lunas (Catherine Asaro, Sarah Zettel) and others (Doranna Durgin's Nose for Trouble, and I'm loving some of the Mira suspense books).  

Oh yes, I re-read my keepers now and then. I love Johanna Lindsey's regencies about the Mallory family. Those first few.. about Anthony, James, Nicholas, and then their niece Amy, are a few of my favorites. They're great spicy love stories laced with tons of humor and sarcastic banter between the heroes. I love them. Once or twice a year I'll pull one out and read it. I read very fast, and having read them already, the re-reading goes quickly.

I have also reread Jane Austen's books several times. I love them.

I also love the Dark Hunter series. I started reading them a few years ago. I just got a friend hooked, so as she read one, I would reread it so we could have fun talking about it. LOL.

I love everything that MacCaffery has written.  I love, adore,glom onto everything that Mercedes Lackey has written.  Even the so-so books are a good read.

You need to look at her LUNAs as YA fantasy. She is writing for a different audience and using a fairy tale template, which means that some of the characters are stereotypical.  At least that's how I see it.

Do I have rereads?  Of course!

So many people say that once they read a book they won't read it over again because they already know what's going to happen. Most of the time, I agree.  But there are some books that I love to reread because... I just DO!  Do I need a reason? LOL

Here's a list of books that I've read more than once, beginning with those from my childhood (some I reread to my DD now), and ending with those more recent :

Cat In The Hat (and other Dr. Seuss books) - Theodor S. Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)

Nancy Drew series - Carolyn Keene

The Little Princess/ Secret Garden/ Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Anne of Green Gables (and the whole series) - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Cages of Glass, Flowers of Time - Charlotte Culin

Marcia - Grace Livingston Hill

Christy - Catherine Marshal

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchel

Remembrance - Jude Deveraux

Anne Frank's Diary - Anne Frank and her father

The Zion Chronicles - Bodie Thoene

The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom

Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally

As you can tell by the last four books, I have a deep interest in WWII and the Holocaust - the very non-romantic side of me.  Although I love romances!  My range of books is very eclectic! 

I think you're right!  And boy am I glad I'm not the odd-ball out!  <GG>

I don't re-read. I am lucky to get time to read it the first go, there are too many new books calling my name, and if I read it a second time the inner editor kicks in and starts nitpicking, regardless of how great the story is.

If they are blatent printing errors I will stop dead in my tracks on a first read. I can ignore them in the second read. So, sometimes I find I enjoy a book better the second time around.  Probably, it is because I do more skimming less reading every single word on re-reads.

When I was younger, I used to actually take a red pen and mark, then correct, the mistakes in books myself - LOL.  I think it harked back to my journalism classes when we learned to edit, edit, edit!  Now, I try to overlook errors when I can, but it ain't isn't easy!  Not that I don't make lots of grammatical and spelling mistakes, because I do (some make me laugh later), and I don't expect my blogs or anyone else's to be flawless.  I mean, why take it all so darn seriously?  We're mostly just having fun.  However, when I read a book that's gone through several drafts and the actual printing process, that's a different story.  And, people, I'm not talking about Harlequins necessarily - I'm talking about all books.  Oh, and newspapers are really loaded with mistakes!  But then, we are all human after all.  In fact, I'm probably making a ton right now.... 

I don't mark my books anymore, because I give them away sometimes, and I sure don't want anyone to see my weird corrections!  People sometimes think I'm different enough as it is!  But then most folks know that I march to the beat of a different drum.  Now if I can just figure out which drum.