Re-Reading Childhood Favourites

At this stage, it's actually gone beyond a joke.

My bookcase that I've owned for about ten years is now overflowing with books. There's no longer enough room to even stuff books into it and serendipitously averting looking at it. For the past year, my reading has been on a bit of a hiatus, with only a choice few novels being read, among them 1984 and Catch-22, because most of my time was spent reading school books, (I've read enough Biology to last me a lifetime and don't even get my started on Irish!).

Yesterday, I gathered my courage and sat down at my bookcase, in the vain hope I'd create space out of thin air. Unfortunatly, that didn't work and right now, there's about eight books lying on my bedroom floor. As I was sitting there, awash in paperbacks, I realised that I'll probably never read any of the books that were such an important part of my early teen years again. I'm sure I'll read through a few of them again at some stage, The Lord of the Rings and The Wheel of Time spring to mind. I doubt I'll ever grow old of Harry Potter either.

But, then I thought, I have two weeks till I leave and in this interval, I'll do my best to re-read some of these books. The next question posed was, which books?

Well, the Old Kingdom Trilogy by Gareth Nix was one of my favourite series, so I'll start with that. There are three books in the series: Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. Hopefully, I'll zip through those pretty fast.

After that, it gets trickier. I've read Harry Potter so much, I don't see the point in doing it again right now and I finished the Narnia series for the first time ever recently. Likewise, with Artemis Fowl, I've read the books several times. His Dark Materials, while excellent, have been perused by me too often to warrent a re-reading.

Cornelia Funke's books, The Thief Lord and her Inkworld trilogy, Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath, (released later this month I believe), are possible inclusions. So too are the two trilogies of Cliff MacNish, The Silver Sequence and The Doomspell Series. Beyond that, I can't really decide. If I have time, I may well re-visit the Lian Hearn books and others.

One things for sure though, I will never torture myself with the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini again. They were terrible!

I'll blog about how it goes later!