Comforts

[primroseburrows]

ari_o asks a wonderful question about our comfort books, books we read when we're needy. I'm shamelessly gacking it for my own curiosity.

So...what are your comfort books? Y'know, the ones you turn to when you're sick, or tired, or depressed, or stressed out,or just want to bury yourself in something that's not directly connected to your life? Those ones, those books that never cease to comfort.

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[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Probably #1 is The Dark is Rising. I don't usually re-read things, but I do this. Right now I'm re-reading it chapter by chapter each night. ::sigh:: Will.

Also maybe something by Saki. LOTR is another thing I've read more often but it's more of an effort.:-)

Oh and, um, I guess I might also include Secret Origins of the DC Superheroes. It's all wrinkly and warped from reading it in the bathtub when I was a kid. And also just looking at any page of Richard Scarry's Big Red Schoolhouse will fill me with delight.

Incidentally, I recently bought a friend of mine a book she mentioned was her comfort book when she was little. Turns out she'd never actually owned a copy and it was so the best present because it was just as good as she remembered. Plus it's a great book--a little golden book called Mister Dog.

[sarahtales.livejournal.com]

*coughs* Bran!
In re comfort books: anything by Anthony Trollope. God, I love that man.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

*makes note*

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Probably #1 is The Dark is Rising. This is on my list to read. I used to have it, somewhere, but I can't find it. *sigh* I may have to go get the whole darn series again, eventually.

[robinhoo.livejournal.com]

Oh, woman, you must read the whole Dark Is Rising sequence. I have a mad, screaming fic-crush on Will Stanton.

Although to save my life I can't read the last one. Maybe it's just that I can't bring myself to admit that it's the end....