I live on Libby and Hoopla.

I haven’t been able to read The Ten Thousand Doors of January. I love portal fiction! But the child abuse was just too much. I couldn’t get past it.

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith reading The Rivers of London series, Barbara Rosenblat reading Elizabeth Peters’ books, and Eric Conger reading John Sandford’s Virgil Flowers books…total pleasure…I wish I had their skills.

If you are going to do the Holocaust, maybe go with non-fiction. The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak is the diary of a teenage in the Łódź Ghetto and is excellent.

Or, maybe something like King Leopold’s Ghost about the Belgian Congo.

I’m an academic. I actually require my students to annotate their readings in some courses. It’s a key method of really engaging with the text and learning the material.

Death on the Nile.

I have probably read The Chronicles of Narnia 50 times. Easily.

Heidi multiple times.

I used to reread a lot. I still do it some.

I reread or listen to Agatha Christie as comfort food. I often listen to audiobooks of books I know pretty well.

No, it’s a pretty skimmable book. I finished it, but I had to make myself. Such a cool concept. So boringly played out.

I love the KJV. It’s just not religious if it’s not in Elizabethan English!

If you are just looking for the allusions, you could also skip the charm and go straight for a kids’ Bible stories book. The Jehovah’s Witnesses has one with pretty illustrations and good readability. I assume other sects do as well. (I read the KJV myself, but I had a sister who was bent on conversion…she lives with the disappointment).

I wanted to like them, but I found the writing pretty weak from the beginning. On the whole, I prefer her books under the Nora Roberts name.

Have you considered Libby and Hoopla? I listen to audio books all the time; I check them out from my library with those apps.

Remember, this is a book about the post-World War 1 generation. The whole point is that they have lost their faith in everything and are just racing through life pointlessly.

Paper now, kindle when your eyes start to go…