Giveaway Winner
Before I get to the T5T post, I’d like to announce the WINNER of my Wyrd & Wonder GIVEAWAY!!!
The lucky winner is Tanja of Where Stories Lie. Congrats Tanja!!! 😆🤣🥳 She will receive a fantasy book purchase(s) of up to $30USD from Book Depository! 😀
Make sure to check out her Wyrd & Wonder wrap-up post.
Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Shanah, the Bionic Book Worm, and now hosted by Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
This week’s topic:
Top 5 books I want to reread
(If you had the time, what are 5 books you would reread now??)
I love revisiting things and often reread books and comics and rewatch movies and TV shows. Being already familiar with the material helps me to focus on other things as I re-experience these books and shows, so it feels like a new experience too.
This is probably the third time I’m doing this topic on here, and I always come up with something new because there are many books I’ve read that I’d love to reread. Here are a few more.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
I’ve read this twice already, and it’s been a while since my last reread. Enough time has passed that I’ve forgotten parts of the plot. I’d love to revisit it. It’s such a powerful, though spooky, tale.
Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks
Ugh! I really enjoyed these books (although parts of the second and third books annoyed me). I like stories about assassins and Durzo Blint and Kylar are such great fighters, and I just like their characters (although they sometimes annoyed me) and the other secondary characters, especially the sorcerer dudes (but, ugh! So mad about how the god-king prince dude turned out to be. Grr!!). I really need to reread this.
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
Oh my gosh! This is one of my FAVORITE books! I think I’ve only read it once… maybe twice…? Anyway, it’s SUCH a good read! It’s been such a long time since I last read it that I’ve forgotten much of the plot, but I do remember that it’s about Black folks chasing the American dream and that it’s set back in the day (probably during the Harlem Renaissance but I may be mistaken. Ugh!! Can’t believe I forgot this much) and is inspired by Dante’s Inferno. The neighborhood it’s set in resembles the different levels of hell.
Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Another one I’ve read such a long time ago that I don’t even have a review of it on this blog (the same goes for Beloved and Linden Hills). I LOVED these books as a kid and would reread them as much as I do the Harry Potter books now, especially the first book (or second depending on the order you’re going by) — The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. These were some of the first fantasy books I read and what hooked me on the genre early on. I’d love to revisit them.
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe, illus. by Roc Upchurch
Ahh!! Rat Queens! I had such a fun time reading this first volume a couple years ago and would love to reread it and continue with the series. It’s a fantasy comic about a diverse group of female mercenaries. It’s SUCH fun!
Zezee with Books 
Had beloved on TBR shelf for a while, if it is that good maybe I should try to read soon!
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I highly recommend it! 😊
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YES!! I think I’m up to Volume 4 or 5 in Rat Queens, but they’ve released up to 7 or 8 I think. I really need to catch up on it… Great list!!
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Oh wow! I need to catch up too. I’ve only read to vol. 2.
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Oooh yes, I want to reread the Chronicles of Narnia too!
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It’s been such a long time. I might do a reread toward late summer/early fall when I feel like rereading Harry Potter books again lol
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Fun topic! I recently re-read Beloved with my book group. It’s amazing how powerful it is — also, I found that while I remembered how the book made me feel, I remembered almost nothing about the plot except from the general outline. (Granted, it’s been 25+ years since I last read it…)
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I’m glad it held up for you over those years and is still good. I’d love to get to it this year.
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The only one I’ve read of these is The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, though I don’t recall much about it I read it so long ago. If I were to pick one book I’d like to reread now it would be The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, a Spanish book about a boy whose father runs an old book store, and also secretly helps look after the Cemetary of Fogotten Books, a special library where all the forgotten books are kept. The boy finds a book titled The Shadow of the Wind and is so engaged by it he tries to track down the author. I loved the story and have always wanted to reread it before I start on any of the books that came after.
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I keep hearing great things about The Shadow of the Wind. I’d love to try it as well.
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I liked Rat Queens up to a certain point. The ladies are all fun. The Way of Shadows has been on my list for a while. I finally have all three of the books, so hopefully I’ll get to ’em soon.
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Hope you get to Way of Shadows. Would love to see what you think of it.
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Oh I really want to read The Way of Shadows!
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It’s so good!
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The Night Angel trilogy has been on my list for ages – that cover keeps calling to me and I keep putting it off 😀 I’ve also meant to finish Narnia eventually.
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Oh man! The Night Angel story was a good one. It is very grimdark though. Lots of violence and grittiness and all that, but a good read.
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oooh i’ve been meaning to read rat queens for so long now! i should probably get on to it.
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Yep, it’s worth it. I’ve only read the first and second volumes, but I liked them.
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Beloved is on my list to reread – it’s on my Classics Club list. I read it in high school so it’s been a really long time.
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It was such a good read! I really liked the movie too.
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