December Daily: comfort reading

[resonant]

armadillo1976 -- What is your comfort reading? Fic, high-brow literature, commercial fiction, whatever.

I go back and read Terry Pratchett a lot. Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor. Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion if I can summon a lot of ability to concentrate, Dad's old "Pogo" comic books (see icon) if I can't summon much at all.

When it comes to fic, I don't so much have specific stories I reread a lot, but I go back to my favorite fandoms. A while back I went on a Losers kick. Right now for some reason I'm reading Pirates of the Caribbean. And the rock-solid, absolutely reliable pick-me-up is Due South.



Comment to leave me a prompt! Steal armadillo1976's prompt if you want to do the meme yourself!


9 -- exceptinsects -- favorite romantic moments...in books, movies, fic, real life?
10 -- pauraque -- your favorite movies as a kid (or favorite kids' movies as an adult)
11 -- mific -- a winter's tale. Anything wintry, good or bad.
12 -- runpunkrun -- advice you've found useful
13 -- terminally_underwhelmed -- things that change, things that don't.
14 -- watersword -- Tell me about a memorable meal.
15 -- anitac588 -- Chris Evans.
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17 -- ride_4ever -- birthdays
18 -- muccamukk -- Dwarvish things in your everyday life. (Moved from the 17th so ride_4ever could get the birthday date.)
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20 -- copracat -- memory.
21 -- rhi -- cats.
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23 -- laurenthemself -- Something spooky that's happened to you
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Comments

[armadillo1976]

:-) Thank you! And Pratchett's "Going Postal" and "Making Money" are two of my go-to pick-me-up books as well. Nice to know!

[resonant]

Excellent choices! If I were going to go re-read one today, it would probably be "Feet of Clay," but so many of them are comfort reads.

[anelith]

Pogo is the best. Deck us all with Boston Charlie! https://youtu.be/SL0lPcNwRqQ

[resonant]

Another fan! Howdy!

[spikedluv]

I have re-read The Goblin Emperor soooo many times!!!

[resonant]

I'm up to three now. I'm trying not to be in a hurry for the sequel, but oh how I'd love more of that world.

[bonibaru]

It's a weird choice for comfort reading but the Cut & Run series by Abigail Roux would be dog-eared if I had them in physical book form.

[resonant]

Huh, not familiar with them. What do you love about them?

[cybel]

Pogo! I grew up with Pogo and still have some compilations lying about somewhere.

As for Pratchett, Discworld rules. I've never read the books, mind you, but the audiobooks are so well read I listen to them over and over. The Librarian is my favorite character, but so many others also live in my heart. ❤️

[resonant]

I don't meet a lot of Pogo fans, so that's a nice surprise. And the Librarian is fantastic.

[cybel]

Pogo was one of the loves of my youth. I looked forward to every new strip (the funnies, my mom called them) in the newspaper. Having the collections come out years later was pure joy.