This year, I have been attempting to curb my spending on books with, it should be noted, some success. However, old habits started to creep in during the summer months, and my spending on books online and in charity shops started to increase once more. On September 1, I decided that for the rest of the year I would reverse that by going to the garage! In common with many people we do not have a car in our garage, so it is a repository for exercise equipment, puzzles and games, sports equipment and books. In amongst those books are favourite authors or stories that I haven’t looked at in perhaps two decades. It was time to bring these books out of storage and make them the focus of my challenge.

Rules of the challenge

The rules are quite simple. The books you choose should be books you really enjoyed when you first read them but which have been stored away during various moves or which have stayed on your bookshelf untouched for at least a couple of years. You are allowed to sprinkle in new books, but they must be from your local library not your TBR list. If someone buys you a book, thank them and then put it away until January unless it is a new copy of an old favourite that you lost or gave away years ago.

Books I will be rereading

I will be working my way through four R F Delderfield novels, To Serve Them All My Days and the A Horseman Riding By Trilogy. Following that I will revisit Don’t Cry for Me Sergeant Major by Robert McGowan and Jeremy Hands, a journalist’s eye view of the Falklands War. Once those have finished I will move onto my Christmas reread starting, as I always do with A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks. I will be reviewing all my rereads focusing mainly on my reaction to them after not reading them for ages. Please join me for this challenge here and all my social media outlets, and let me know if you are inspired to undertake a similar challenge.

Happy Rereading!