What Summer Reading Do You Want to Revisit This Year?

I vote for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Read it in junior high and absolutely LOVED it. I'll have to break it out once again when I have the time!

I think ... Little Women ... a classic.

To Kill a Mockingbird--it's the 50th anniversary I believe.

Anna Quindlen's "Blessings". I feel like I need some, maybe the title will rub off. Actually I have a stack of books of all stripes that has taken over a corner of my apartment. I long for the time to sit and enjoy them without feeling guilty that I should be doing something "better" with my time.

Tonight I bought Jodi Picoult's 'Picture Perfect' and am about to start reading it. I love the way she writes--it makes me unable to put the book down! After that I think I may reread The Catcher in the Rye, one of my all-time favorites.

I just bought 'Anne Franke Diary of a Young Girl'. I first read this when I was about her age, 13. It profoundly
affected me. I have revisted this book many times in my life, but it has been many years now. A friend and I went to a highschool play of AF a few years ago. I am 60 now and have been an avid reader for as long as I can remember. There are many books, where the characters have become like 'old friends', and I continue to visit them whenever I can. This may be a romantic ideology, but I hope it is one that all people try. I am reminded of the book 'Fahrenheit 451'. Where would we be without the wonderful ideas given us in stories?

Anything by Judy Blume, V. C. Andrews, Danielle Steele, Sweet Valley High, and those Wildfire teenage romance novels.

one of my fondest literary memories was roald dahl's, "james & the giant peach." such a magical, whimsical story that i believe i will love even more today!

There are tons of books I read in school that I'd like to revisit, like Brave New World, and books that I wasn't assigned to read but still think I should, like Don Quixote. But like Rebecca, I've had a strong desire recently to read all the "less literary" books that I absolutely loved growing up, like Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, the Sweet Valley High series, and books like that, just to see how I like them as an adult.

Ah so many great ones to read again, so little time. A few off the top of my head: The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, and a couple of less literary works, Are You There, God, It's Me, Margaret?, The Thorn Birds, and all the VC Andrews books: Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, etc. (Poor Chris and Cathy...)