Over and Over and Over #MFRW

For week 25 of the Marketing for Romance Writers blog hop, the prompt is:

Favorite Books to Read

I’m a re-reader. That means if I like a book, I’ll it more than once. If I really, really like it, I’ll read it a dozen or more times. My record is for Dune, by Frank Herbert, which I read somewhere over thirty times. I suppose that makes it my favorite . . . but there have been so many books in the meantime!

Here are a few of them. By the very nature of often re-read books, none of them are terribly recent.

Most of the science fiction books of Jack Vance, such as Trullion: Alastor 2262, Blue World, and the Lyonesse trilogy.
The romances of Kathleen Gilles Seidel, such as Again, The Same Last Name, and A Risk Worth Taking. Some are out of print, which is a shame.
The five books in Elizabeth Moon’s Vatta’s War space opera series, which starts with Trading in Danger and then Marque and Reprisal. I’m re-reading this series now.
A few of Georgette Heyer’s historical novels, such as Cotillion, The Unknown Ajax, and Sprig Muslim.
Of my own books, I’m particularly proud of The Trial of Tompa Lee, The Guardian Angel of Farflung Station, and Escapee (which is a finalist for a 2017 RONE Award).

What about you? What are some of your favorite reads?

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18 comments

Sherry Lewis · June 23, 2017 - 4:13 am · Reply→

Good list. Some I’m familiar with, some not. Adding a few more to my “want to read” list.
1. Ed Hoornaert · June 23, 2017 - 12:56 pm · Reply→
  
  That’s the upside of posts like this — learning about possible new favorites.
Author Charmaine Gordon · June 23, 2017 - 6:51 am · Reply→

Hi Ed, I’ve read all of John Sandford’s books many times over and just the other day I found an older one, new to me so I’m in to it. Since I don’t drive anymore, I found a library that sends books to folks like me. That means the cute ones who fell down. Now I can focus but time is fleet and I’m going to rewrite a story I believed to be terrific but smart folks let me know I should go slow and blah, blah fix it. Nifty after paying someone I got advice from real people who are familiar with my writing. Best to you, my friend.
1. Ed Hoornaert · June 23, 2017 - 12:57 pm · Reply→
  
  I’m not familiar with John Sandford, but I’ll take a look on Amazon and/or the library.
Mary J. McCoy-Dressel · June 23, 2017 - 1:34 pm · Reply→

Thumbs up for Georgette Heyer’s historical novels. ❤ You have quite an assortment of your own here, Ed. 🙂
1. Ed Hoornaert · June 23, 2017 - 2:22 pm · Reply→
  
  When I was younger, I was content to read science fiction almost exclusively, but now I’m pretty eclectic in my reading.
  1. Mary J. McCoy-Dressel · June 23, 2017 - 2:57 pm ·
    
    I can relate. 😀
maureenbonatch · June 23, 2017 - 4:39 pm · Reply→

Some new books to add to my list- thanks! I have lots of favorites, but I don’t often reread a book since I never seem to get caught up on my TBR.
1. Ed Hoornaert · June 23, 2017 - 4:51 pm · Reply→
  
  What is this “get caught up on TBR” that you speak of? I thought that possibility was a mere myth, like unicorns and sasquathes.
Cathy Brockman · June 24, 2017 - 7:03 am · Reply→

I’m not much of a rereader person but have a few books I would read again if I ever ran out of new stuff. I don’t know any of these titles.
1. Ed Hoornaert · June 24, 2017 - 3:20 pm · Reply→
  
  That’s why there are so very many books out there, Cathy, to suit every persons interests..
  1. Cathy Brockman · June 24, 2017 - 6:15 pm ·
    
    Yes and I think I read all the kinds except bios lol
RobinMichaela · June 24, 2017 - 2:08 pm · Reply→

You’re brave – I’m not sure I could read one of my books over again. I think I’d be obsessed with finding and fixing errors and rewriting everything.
1. Ed Hoornaert · June 24, 2017 - 3:19 pm · Reply→
  
  That has been known to happen, Robin!
alinakfield · June 26, 2017 - 3:20 pm · Reply→

You have diverse tastes, Ed! And I’m wondering why any books could be “out of print” nowadays with eBooks and POD. There’s a copyright holder out there who needs to get on it!
1. Ed Hoornaert · June 26, 2017 - 8:37 pm · Reply→
  
  You’re right, Alina. Someone is asleep at the switch to let a book go out of print.
Meka James · June 27, 2017 - 11:21 am · Reply→

Learning about a lot of books I’ve not heard of before with this hop.
1. Ed Hoornaert · June 27, 2017 - 1:21 pm · Reply→
  
  Same here. I always think, “Oh, that sounds so interesting I’ll have to read it,” and then I remember the size of my TBR list….