you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

1. Go back to your blog, and tell us about the books you’re rereading during the mini-challenge. Maybe post a picture of each book and describe why you love it enough to reread it.

Tamora Pierce's Terrier I reread mostly to get reacquainted with the universe and that period of its history before reading Bloodhound for the first time, but it's fantasy with a kickass female lead and equally kickass female supporting cast members, and that always rocks. synecdochic's Take These Broken Wings, I can't really articulate why. (The best stories always reduce me to waving-hands gibbering. Maybe because my ability to string words together suddenly seems so inferior next to these stories' authors.) Tales retold with a twist are perpetual favorites of mine and this series spins off Stargate SG-1's last few seasons, twist being the focus on identity and sexual identity and disability. And Syn's told us about so many literary tricks she was playing with in the writing of these (and annotated a third of the second Broken Wings novel for cultural references) and it's such fun to spot them on the reread, and she just rocks, all right?

Planning on getting to Scott Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora, again mostly so I can get to the first read of its sequel, but that's another one that reduced me to "it just rocks, all right?"

2. Go back to your blog, and give us a list of your top favorite rereads of all time. You know, those books that you can go to time and time again for comfort and escape. Again, pictures are good. :)

Comfort and escape ha ha ha. "(This story contains: dubcon, death, physical injury, physical injury that managed to even make me shudder, violence, murder, psychological horror, that creepy feeling down the back of your spine that comes from watching someone go quietly insane, the relics and remnants of too many spy novels, and the entirety of Western Canon put in a blender set to frappé. Beware of fucking snakes.)" synecdochic does not, as a rule, put warnings on her stories, and she put that on Broken Wings novel #2 anyway.

Syn's Cammie stories are definitely comfort and escape, though.

Mercedes Lackey, pretty much anything, but especially her Elemental Masters and Five Hundred Kingdoms books.

Anne Walsh's Dangerverse stories.

Harry Potter books used to be foolproof comfort and escape, but that was before it became effectively closed canon. I think I've read the first five books some triple-digit number of times each, the sixth some small double-digit number of times, and the seventh book twice. Maybe three times.

It may be kind of sad that my list is mostly fanfic.

There is 'sleeping longer to make up for not sleeping as much' and then there is 'waking up at three pm'. Only one of these is a good thing. Just as well I didn't go off with everybody else to the square dance three hours' drive away, then, because that started at two-thirty.