#rereadathon22

[stefito0o]

Some me time with hot chocolate, elderflower drink and Jane Eyre ☕🥛📖

[readingbooksinisrael]

The Tale of Despereaux is so lyrical, it’s meant to be read out loud.

[books-and-cookies]

@logarithmicpanda is organising a rereadathon this month and i thought i'd jump into it as well, especially since i looooove rereading books 😊 i had been meaning to pick up the last 3 books in the mortal instruments series and reread them for A While now, so this is my chance

70 pages into City of Lost Souls and yay, i missed this world

[readingbooksinisrael]

The next reread I’m starting (simultaneously) is Rogue Patrol. 

I don’t read Murderbot for the overarching plot because I don’t understand it (which does bother me), but also because characterization. And, I think, Rogue Patrol is a great book for this. We get to see Murderbot interact with a different type of bot (the kind that perhaps on Preservation people would have expected it to be) and its thoughts about that bot and itself in relation to the bot, along with still having its thoughts about humans and ART and itself in relation each (individually) is great.

[stefito0o]

Ready for my hospital stay with my re-read of 1984 📖

[readingbooksinisrael]

"...This trial is about you being a mouse," shouted the Most Very Honored Head Mouse from high atop the bricks, "and not acting like one!!!"

The Tale of Despereaux/Kate DiCamillo

[readingbooksinisrael]

The first reread I'm starting with is Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary. This actually isn't a book I'd generally reread. I've read it twice and while I generally love Beverly Cleary's books I seem to prefer the ones with girl protagonists. The only one in the Henry series that I remember really appealing to me was Henry and the Paper Route. However, when Beverly Cleary passed away in March I decided to (re)read all her books in chronological order (or, at the last, all those I can get access to)-after I finished the Animorphs series. In December I finished Animorphs so here I am with the first book she ever published. 

She specifically wrote it because she noticed as a librarian that kids didn't have many books about their lives and I think that that is one of the important this in her books. Many realistic fiction books are very dramatic, but in Beverly Cleary's books kids just experience day-to-day life with all its problems and excitements, and it's interesting.

[readingbooksinisrael]

I finished my reread of Rogue Protocol. The first time I read this I missed out on a lot of what was happening on the action scenes, but this time I think that I got the full understanding: a combination of allowing myself to read it slower and the emotional scenes not being so new to me.

I really enjoyed the reread. In my head I had combined a lot of Artificial Condition together with Rogue Patrol so it was nice to get them apart again, but besides all that I still love everything with Miki and the action scenes were really cool, especially the one with the diggers.

spoilers below here

I don't get why Murderbot decided to go back to Mensah personally now and I don't understand if that's something we're supposed to get at this point.