Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in 2018.
Hi everyone! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is ‘books I loved but will never re-read’ and when I first started thinking about this topic, I had a bit of a hard time with it. On the one hand I hardly ever re-read books (the only three books I’ve ever reread are The Melody of You and Me by Maria Hollis, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and Simon VS by Becky Albertalli) so technically, all of my books could probably be on this list. But on the other hand, I just don’t like saying never, because there’s always a chance that I might end up rereading the book someday (yes, I’m that kind of person, lol).
Then I started thinking about the books I reread, and why I reread them, and it was all because of the same reason: comfort. I only reread a book when I’m feeling down, and I need to escape to a familiar world that makes me feel safe. And that definitely helped me narrow down the choices.
I ended up with three categories of books I’ll never reread: books that deal with topics that are very hard for me to read about, and therefore won’t be comforting (Am I Normal Yet?, Shattered, Tiny Pretty Things and American Panda), books that I really enjoyed when I read them but I know I won’t like as much now (The Collector’s Society, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and Moxie) or they’re first books in series, which will make me feel obligated to reread the rest of the series too and I don’t love this series enough for me to spend so much time on it (The Abyss Surrounds Us, Of Fire and Stars and Empress of a Thousand Stars).
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Comfort is definitely a good reason to re- read, and I think that’s a big one for me too- the chance to revisit a familiar or comforting world. It can be relaxing? Some books, even if I love ‘em, are not exactly comfort reads so yeah I’d be less likely to read those too!
The Collectors Society is one I’m definitely curious about, mainly due to that cover!
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Great list. I enjoyed Tiny Pretty Things but I don’t think I’d reread it.
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Comfort is such a big reason to reread. I could reread the second Bartimaeus book every month for that reason haha.
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Yeah, I’ve heard other people say the same thing about American Panda even though they liked it a lot.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I just read Moxie recently and enjoyed it, but it wasn’t so much that I’d read it again.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/top-ten-tuesday-154/
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The Abyss Surrounds looks great!
Lauren @ Always Me
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