I have read Out Of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper at least 6 times. This book was the first book that made me cry.
This book tells the life of a girl named Melody who has cerebral palsy. Because of her cerebral palsy, Melody cannot walk or take care of her own needs, but worst of all, Melody cannot talk.
Melody has a photographic memory. She is very smart, really smart, but since she cannot speak, she cannot share this information with people, and at school she is often referred to as disabled by other students. As you can imagine, her life is hard, but that doesn’t stop Melody from being a sweet, smart and inspiring person. I definitely see the dedication to life, optimism and hope in Melody. When I first finished reading the book, I was grateful that I could talk, walk and meet my own needs for the first time in my life. Yes, being able to speak and having a voice is much more important than we think. By writing Out Of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper helped us empathize with people like Melody and reminded us how lucky so many of us are to actually be able to talk and walk. Whenever I need feeling lucky and hopeful, I take this book off the shelf and read a few pages. For me, every page in the book is meaningful and makes me feel good.
What is the book that you still re-read from time to time and what makes you keep reading it?
I apologize if the translation and pronouns are wrong, I use translation.
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Anne of Green Gables I could read on repeat forever ❤
Such a kind sweet book with captures childhood youthfulness!
Catherine Called Birdy. I got that for my daughter 15 years ago and I probably reread it every other year.
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- Stories of your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Exhalation & other short stories by Ted Chiang
And I’ve read
A Song of Ice and Firefew times… I’ll only read it again, ifThe Winds of Wintersis published by some miracle.I’ve read Watership Down at least 20 times since I was a kid but not for ten years. Am almost finished my first reread in that time and am enjoying it immensely. I think I’d be happy for it to be the last book I ever read when my time comes. I’m thinking of posting something about it here soon when I finish.
omg every time I forget about this book I get reminded again soon! I read it in middle school but I don’t know anyone irl that has also read it!
The Wizard of Earthsea (and sequels) by Ursula Le Guin. Thoughtful, deep and still fresh in a sea of excessively long and plodding fantasy fiction.
The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. I first read this when I was twelve and it started my intense and deranged love of fantasy. Few writers of high fantasy since have lived up to it. Few writers have had such an immense (and not always positive) influence on a genre.
I listen to the American Gods audiobook every time I’m on a road trip. It just works.
i re-read bones and all by Camille DeAngelis a lot. i’m not the biggest fan of the movie but i watch it a lot too. idk why i’m so attached to this book in particular but its really nice comfort.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
I just love that book so much and the way Charlie this about life. The first time I read it, I never felt so strongly connected to a main character before.
Pretty much any of John Le Carre’s earlier works. There’s always a new, subtle character trait to discover.
“How to Make Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie! What a masterpiece
I have a whole shelf of books that I re-read periodically. They are like old friends. CJ Cherryh, Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, Tolkien, Madeline L’Engle, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Niel Gamon are some of the authors on that shelf.
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
By Hunter S. Thompson
So goddamn good!
I’ve re-read the entirety of Terry Pratchett’s work four times over the course of my life and a fifth is approaching. He’s an author that changes many things in how you view life, morals and your fellow humans.
And he’s really funny.
For someone who hasn’t read any, which one book would you recommend first?
I’ll second Guards, Guards! It’s such a funny book, and it introduces characters that go on to grow and change a great deal. Pratchett gets both the funny and the humanity.
I’d also recommend Thief of Time as one of Pratchett’s more standalone books. It does have recurring characters from elsewhere in Discworld, but it is more self contained and one of my personal favorites.
Not the first published one. Pratchett himself discouraged readers starting there because he was still finding his footing as an author at the time and he was right: the first 2 or 3 are not good as the others, even if they’re still better than a lot of things out there.
The whole of Discworld is comprised of 41 novels informally divided in “subseries” aka novels sharing roughly the same cast of characters, but they are more or less all readable without prior knowledge, so there are a lot of starting points.
Maybe try Night Watch, the beginning of the Watch “series” and one of the best overall, or Small Gods, which is stand-alone… but any starting book of a “series” is fair game. Here you can find a handy reading order.
You’ll love pTerry, I promise ;)
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I read them as they were released and have read the series again at least half a dozen times. King’s best work, imo.
