Book meme

[rosemary_green]

Borrowed from daegaer:

What 5 series/books/movies can you rewatch/reread time and again?

1.  Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

2.  Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

3.  Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

4.  Golden Chronicles series by Patricia Veryan

5.  The Dark Secret of Weatherend by John Bellairs

I could extend this list on indefinitely, because if I like a book at all I do tend to re-read it, but these have all exceeded the "read more than 10 times" mark.

 

Comments

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I love Jerome K Jerome and that book in particular. (I can read the bit about the pineapple can again and again.)

I've just started the annual re-read of one of my faves, Death at the President's Lodging, by Michael Innes.

[rosemary-green.livejournal.com]

Have you read Michael Innes's "Lament for a Maker"? It's one of my favorite cold-and-gloomy-day books.

("Three Men in a Boat" was one of two books I brought on a three week holiday once..I surprised many people on dark train platforms by laughing riotously at it.)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that. Innes is hard to come by but I keep my eye open. Have you read any other Jerome K Jerome? I like 'Novel Notes'.

[rosemary-green.livejournal.com]

Finally remembered the other Jerome K Jerome I've read: "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow". I found it recently online, read aloud in very nice voice:
http://librivox.org/idle_thoughts_of_an_idle_fellow_by_jerome_k_jerome/

And have you read "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis? It contains time-travel, Oxford, the Victorian era, croquet, England during the Blitz, penwipers, and lots of Jerome K Jerome references -- another of my favorites.

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Ooh - not seen that, either. Another thing for the reading list (am working my way through Alexander McCall Smith land at present).