Re-read recap

Last November, I decided to take this year and re-read some of my books.  They had been collecting dust over the years and thought that as long as they're there, I might as well enjoy them again.  Isn't that the point of keeping them?  Along with the list below, I read the Walking Dead graphic novels.  They have put together two compilations for the entire series so far.  It was a nice change of pace from the novels I read.  So here's a breakdown of what I read over the past twelve months:

• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Killer Angels
• Diary
• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour:  An Introduction
• Franny and Zooey
• The Zombie Survival Guide 
• Prison Writings:  My Life is My Sun Dance
• Nine Stories
• 44 Dublin Made Me 
• Jedi Search
• Dark Apprentice
• Champions of the Force
• Gone for Soldiers 
• The Dharma Bums
• Skeleton Crew
• Survivor 
• On The Road
• The Catcher in the Rye

This makes me happy on several levels.  One, I read more this year than last.  Two, these books are re-read for a reason.  I enjoyed then when I first read them, I loved them when I read them again.  I have, since I first read it in high school, loved The Catcher in the Rye.  It has been my favorite book ever since.  Slowly closing the gap, however, is 44 Dublin Made Me.  I have not read many memoirs, but for whatever reason this one gripped me when I first stumbled across it in a second hand book store down in Wichita.

The Star Wars books I bought while in middle school and high school.  I have about a dozen books at my mom and dad's house.  I'll eventually get them all back to Minnesota, I just don't have a ton of space right now.  I have really embraced my nerdy past recently and I'm loving every minute of it. These books are easy reads which are something everyone needs to have in their book collection.  Easy reads feel like a reset button to me.  They remind me of why I enjoy books and reading. 

I got to the middle of August and started to regret my decision to do this.  Right around the time I was reading 'Gone for Soldiers'.  Mainly because I started to collect a ton of books that I really, really wanted to read.  But I made it a point to read nothing but books that I had previously read and I stuck to it.  So I made it through the year of re-reading.  Almost twenty books in the year.  Quite a change from last year's six books.  Now, on to the stack of books that have been calling my name for the past four months.