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A book you read more than 10 years ago

I admit I got kinda excited about this one! There are a few books that immediately came to mind that I wouldn't mind rereading. They were initially read over 50 years ago in junior high or high school!

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (Note the alliteration!)
...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer (Can also use for longest book on my TBR!)

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I'm definitely going to reread a childhood favorite for this. Maybe Out of the Dark World or Behind the Attic Wall, since I reread my all time favorite childhood series already this year.

I'm looking forward to rereading any of a few books I haven't touched since high school or college :D

Beowulf
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The Awakening
Things Fall Apart

While I don't remember the books I read in college, which was 10 yrs ago, I'm going further back to middle school when I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West .

It's the only nonfiction book I can remember reading. I remember every fiction book though but I don't want to go in that direction.

Do we think means you haven't read for ten years, or does it only matter if you FIRST read it ten years ago? Like I first read Ethan Frome in high school, but I read it again in 2019. (Not that I'm reading it again.) Or do I need to go with something like Persuasion, which I read in college and haven't read since?

It's been forever since I've reread Charlotte's Web. I went through a phase around 10 years ago where I didn't reach much and prior to that I only read a handful of authors. Not sure I want to re-read any of those.

I last read the second InCryptid book in 2013, so I think I'll slot that in here. I'm trying to use as much of the series as I can for prompts.

I don't do re-reads for a couple of reasons. One, I have too good a memory for plots and stories that I have read. Two, there are just too many books to read yet.

So, I will probably skip this one or find an alternate take on it.

Melissa wrote: "Do we think means you haven't read for ten years, or does it only matter if you FIRST read it ten years ago? Like I first read Ethan Frome in high school, but I read it again in 2019. (..."



The way they've worded it, you could read a book that you first read more than ten years ago, and have read every year since.

I am generally NOT a re-reader, but I'm also excited about this prompt! Because I've reached the age where I've forgotten details of all my early favorites, so I'm starting to re-read them. I've been (VERY slowly!) working on Roger Zelazny's Princes of Amber series, and two years ago I decided I was going to reread Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle.

I started The Shadow of the Torturer last year, and I was LOVING it! but I kept setting it aside for other books. NOW I have a reason to finish it.

I'm not a re-reader for the most part, however, the titles I chose to re-read again after a decade or so were very worth it. For the simple reason of perceiving and interpreting things differently as we grow, age and become wiser ;-)))

It's been ten years since I read The Hunger Games, and I was wanting to reread the series before I pick up The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This is the perfect incentive to make that happen.

I got The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a blind date with a book this year. Less a blind date, more walking into the restaurant to find your bestie waiting for you. Still, it's been a long time since I read the books, because my old copies are all falling apart. While I read HHGTTG this year, I'll read the rest of the series for this prompt, the "wish you could read for the first time" one and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish for the ATY prompt "a book about returning home".

I'm also going to go looking for new copies. My blind date one is the 42nd anniversary edition, with lots of interesting extras - including a letter Adams wrote to his US editor about why he didn't want to change Rickmansworth to Newark, or Marks & Spencers to Bloomingdales.

He suggested that if Americans would be so freaked out, the publisher should put warning stickers on the book: The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them.

The editor seemed to have a very dim view of the intelligence of his own countrymen.

Anyway, that was a long tangent. These are the prompts I'm most looking forward to, and I think I'll get them done in the first week of 2023.

I've been thinking about this....my OCD does not want to skip any prompts, but I dislike re-reading fiction. I think I will try a non-fiction book.

Many moons ago (more than 10 years), I was a novice in a religious order. I read a fair number of spiritual books. At this time in my life (7th decade), I am again focusing on the spiritual part of my life. Perhaps I will re-read one of those books.

What if you can't remember what you read 10 years ago? I might just re-read Gone with the Wind because I remember reading that for the first time in high school.

I know exactly what I want to read for this, and it's Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer. I first read this well over ten years ago at my Grandma's house and though I've read it more recently, I definitely want to give it another listen.

I'm going to re-read Men at Arms. I recently got my bf into Discworld, and I listed to the audiobook of Guards! Guards! while he was reading it for the first time, so I'll go for the next one.

I hate rereading, and the prompts PS associates with them, so I'm not thrilled that there are TWO this year. :(

EDIT- actually might be nice to do a re-read of HP on audio... ok this isn't so bad!

I also am not a fan of re-reading so I decided to pick up a dnf from at least 10 years ago and finally finish it. It's not a terrible book, but the protagonist is terrible and that's what made me put it down forever ago. But this way I can tick it off my list and it's not entirely a re-read. The real question is do I pick up where I left off or start it over from the beginning.

Would you remember well enough what happened before you left off? For me, I'd have to restart because I would have no idea what had happened - especially with being read that long ago. Sometimes I go back to a book I started within the year and have to restart to remember what happened - just recently, I started a book, then left it for a week, and then had to start over! (To be fair, it was only the first chapter, and I'd read it late at night when I was already snoozy.)

No kidding! I'm super jealous of people who can remember books well enough not to want to reread *something*!

This might be one of those tasks where I agonize over the perfect book- do I pick a treasured favorite? Something I read for college that I might have a different reaction now that I'm older? Something that was assigned reading in high school?? The possibilities are endless!

Jennifer W wrote: "No kidding! I'm super jealous of people who can remember books well enough not to want to reread *something*!

This might be one of those tasks where I agonize over the perfect book- do I pick a t..."

Me too. This prompt should be easy for me since I don't remember any details, even a few weeks after reading.

So I'm changing this prompt's wording to A Book That Makes You Nostalgic because that's the theme. I enjoy rereading favourite books but I started doing these challenges to stop rereading so much. I'm planning to go with a Buffy book I bought at a garage sale and haven't read yet.

I'm planning to reread Flowers in the Attic, which I've been planning to reread for at least 3 years so this may be how it happens. My grandma got me into the V.C. Andrews books when I was in junior high and it all started with this one.

Nadine in NY wrote: "The way they've worded it, you could read a book that you first read more than ten years ago, and have read every year since."

Thanks Nadine.

I'm probably still going to go with the "haven't reread in 10 years" interpretation because there's a ton of books I own that I haven't reread in forever, despite moving them multiple times. It also makes it a more deliberate choice for the challenge, rather than something I was going to reread anyway.

so happy about this prompt! something reminded me of my favorite book series from 6th grade recently, the Anastasia krupnik series. it's been over 35 years so I'm excited to read the first book again. I remember the premise but that's about it. I just know I loved it at the time.

Sunshine wrote: "so happy about this prompt! something reminded me of my favorite book series from 6th grade recently, the Anastasia krupnik series. it's been over 35 years so I'm excited to read the first book aga..."

Oh, Anastasia! I remember her! I don't know about recently, but those books were also banned pretty regularly in the 90s; they might fit the banned book prompt, too.

Dedra ~ A Book Wanderer wrote: "It's been ten years since I read The Hunger Games, and I was wanting to reread the series before I pick up The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This is the perfect inc..."

This is such a good shout! I might go for THG too. Definately something to look forward to on my list.

Dedra wrote: It's been ten years since I read The Hunger Games, and I was wanting to reread the series before I pick up The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This is the perfect incentive to make that happen

Immy wrote: It's been ten years since I read The Hunger Games, and I was wanting to reread the series before I pick up The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This is the perfect incentive to make that happen

Nice you two. I can't decide between THG books and the Twilight ones.

I've got three of the Twilight books for prompts so I might as well add the fourth.

Ron wrote: "Dedra wrote: It's been ten years since I read The Hunger Games, and I was wanting to reread the series before I pick up The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This is the perfect incentive to make tha..."

I did a reread of Twilight when Midnight Sun was released in 2020, otherwise it would be a hard choice between those or THG for me. So much nostalgia with both those series.

Dedra wrote: I did a reread of Twilight when Midnight Sun was released in 2020, otherwise it would be a hard choice between those or THG for me. So much nostalgia with both those series.

Yeah, that's the thing- the nostalgia. It makes it a bit more complicated in the decision-making.

Bea wrote: "I don't do re-reads for a couple of reasons. One, I have too good a memory for plots and stories that I have read. Two, there are just too many books to read yet.

So, I will probably skip this one..."

What about a picture book you first read as a child? That will only take you about 5 minutes, and you've fulfilled the prompt properly.

I don't have a problem using children's books if they fit the prompt, especially if they fill the prompt better than a novel. I remember having the prompt "a book you read to somebody else" a few years ago, and I used a picture book for that one, because I actually read it out loud to a child.

A teenager doing this year's challenge would also HAVE to use a children's book for this.

I'd prefer to go with "haven't reread in 10 years" but honestly I'm not even sure when I read what. I've only been logging my books on ŷ������ since 2018 ( just checked) and my memory isn't all that great.

Some books I won't remember that I read until I actually start reading them. Others I know I read, but I can't remember exactly WHEN I read them. I'm sure I'll find something appropriate, but it's going to take more thought.

I figure I'll select a title that I KNOW I first read more than 10 years ago, and haven't reread in a while. Most of the titles I can be sure of are things I'm likely to have reread. The things I read once and forgot about- well, I've forgotten about them!

I'll most likely read a book from the Fearstreet series - I've DEVOURED them some 15 years ago!

I re-read Animal Farm for this one...haven't read it since high school and it was a very different experience this time around.

I can't decide if I'm going to reread something I loved as a teenager (like Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, or Brave New World) or a favorite from childhood that I'll read to my 6-year-old who's just getting into chapter books.

Time to do a third Wreck This Journal! (I consider it "Read" if I'm completed all the prompts, and I did my first one in 2010 or 2011.)

I re-read Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, a book I first (and last) read in the 1980s.

When I first read it, I was taken by the language, the use of legend, and the setting, as I had recently lived in Canterbury and surrounding area, where the book is set.

This time around, it was much more the dystopian setting and the possibility of re-making the mistakes of the past that held my attention.

Megan wrote: "What if you can't remember what you read 10 years ago? I might just re-read Gone with the Wind because I remember reading that for the first time in high school."

Finished!

I'm going back 70 years to read the first Trixie Belden book. A friend reminded me of how much we love those books and even acted out of some of the plots with our dolls. I had just bought a beautiful Saucy Walker doll and she has brought back so many wonderful memories. I feel like I am spying on my 8-year-old self.

As for re-reading books, I do it all the time. The book may not have changed, but I have. I have read The Way Of All Flesh every decade and I always learn something new. I do the same for C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, the Harry Potter books, Of Human Bondage, Dickens and so many others. For some books I feel like I have to get the plot out of the way in order to begin to know the book. The plot is just a vehicle to support the point of the book.

I'm one of the "rarely reread" people, only because my TBR pile is already dangerously high with just the ones I haven't gotten to.

I picked up The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I haven't read since I was a teen. Still remembered a lot of it, since certain things (like "42," and knowing where one's towel is) have become part of pop culture. And still laughed straight through it, because this series is utterly unique and hilarious. It was one of my inspirations for my own book.

I recently re-read one of the classics, Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726 by Irish author Jonathan Swift. Although he takes a snarky satirical view of the political climate of his times and cleverly places it into an imaginative world, I still found this a difficult book to fully enjoy as a modern reader. Here is ⭐⭐�� my review

Went with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Was surprised by how much I remembered, and I still laughed straight through. This book was the single biggest influence on my own writing.

Laura wrote: "Went with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Was surprised by how much I remembered, and I still laughed straight through. This book was the single biggest influence on my own writing."

I reread this for the first time in ages last year and I too was surprised by how much I remembered. I hope to reread the rest of the series, or part of it, this year.

Can't believe I didn't think of this before:

Into the Wild

I read this back in 2007 during my senior year of high school. Read the book first before seeing the movie.

I am going to re-read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers which is more than 10 yeas ago for me but that is ok I am guessing lol

Okay I finally decided on mine. Since I'm going back and annotating my Twilight books, I figure these would be perfect.

As I am reading New Moon for the love triangle prompt, I'll be using Breaking Dawn for this one.

I used Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park for this one, which I read more than ten years ago, while still in school. It would also work for a book about a family or favorite past prompt for time travel.

Going with Into the Wild . It was one of my favorites back in 2007. And now I know someone who will be visiting Alaska I think it would be fun to read this again.

I read Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln