Posting meme - January 3
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likeadeuce asked, "What are your top comfort reads/rereads? (books, genres, fandoms, whatever)." You would THINK that this is a totally innocuous question, but I suffer from an extreme case of staircase wit about it and there's a 100% chance that once I post my answer I'll remember like twenty other books that are way more important. So, this isn't a Definitive Guide to Masha's Rereading tendencies but a partial answer.
In general, I'm not a huge rereader of books and generally all of these rereads happen maybe once every few years. There are some books that have been in my rereading rotation for a really long time. These are Agatha Christie novels, the City Watch thread of the Discworld series, Lord of the Rings, and Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, plus a few select books from my childhood - Moomins, The Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren, a couple of Jules Verne novels. I also have a few that entered the rereading rotation fairly recently - the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie being a notable one. I've read it three times, I think.
I tend to reread fic a lot more but the more time has passed since I was in a fandom, the less frequently the urge strikes me. So, like, I'll do a big reread of due South or SGA fic every five-ish years, but MCU, Hannibal, and Witcher fic still gets reread every few months. And I don't really reread Harry Potter fic because 15+ years later there's still new fic every time the urge to read some strikes me.
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likeadeuce asked, "What are your top comfort reads/rereads? (books, genres, fandoms, whatever)." You would THINK that this is a totally innocuous question, but I suffer from an extreme case of staircase wit about it and there's a 100% chance that once I post my answer I'll remember like twenty other books that are way more important. So, this isn't a Definitive Guide to Masha's Rereading tendencies but a partial answer.
In general, I'm not a huge rereader of books and generally all of these rereads happen maybe once every few years. There are some books that have been in my rereading rotation for a really long time. These are Agatha Christie novels, the City Watch thread of the Discworld series, Lord of the Rings, and Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, plus a few select books from my childhood - Moomins, The Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren, a couple of Jules Verne novels. I also have a few that entered the rereading rotation fairly recently - the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie being a notable one. I've read it three times, I think.
I tend to reread fic a lot more but the more time has passed since I was in a fandom, the less frequently the urge strikes me. So, like, I'll do a big reread of due South or SGA fic every five-ish years, but MCU, Hannibal, and Witcher fic still gets reread every few months. And I don't really reread Harry Potter fic because 15+ years later there's still new fic every time the urge to read some strikes me.
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