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I have found that in being a mood reader, sometimes I want tried and true rather than new. Especially when life is busy and hectic and I want to read, but I don’t want to have to deal with a roller-coaster of book emotions on top of life emotions. It is sorta like re-watching an old TV show that you’ve seen multiple times, know by heart, and can leave on in the background without the risk of missing something.

Rereading fills a need that sometimes can’t be filled by new and shiny.

One of my favorite ways to revisit a previously read book is to listen to the audiobook version on the repeat. I tend to do this more with spicy romance. Listening to spicy romance on audio for the first go-round doesn’t work for me. I can listen to other books on audio as a first pass with no problem, but the romance genre for me feels odd when I do it that way. Definitely a “me” thing, I’m sure. However, for romance books, a good audio can make what was a decent book on first read even better when the narration hits all the right notes and brings the characters already in my head to life. King of Wrath by Ana Huang is an example where I liked the book, but I LOVED the duet audio. Jacob Morgan as Dante was pure fire. Same goes for the Carnage Island audiobook (a cast “duet” recording). The book was fine, the audio brought. it. to. life.

Even without a change in format, some books are like comfort food. I know what is there, and I can revisit when I am in the mood for a particular feeling, knowing already how everything will work out in the end.

I do tend not to count rereads in my monthly/yearly book totals, unless it is a format change (like ebook/physical book to audiobook). But I would say every month there are a good 5+ rereads that happen, on top of the new stuff.

Do you ever reread books?

More than once?

In different formats?