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[mrissa]

What are your favorite comfort reads? Which books do you reach for when you're sad or harried or upset? And why? Or don't you read that way, and what do you do instead?

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[zunger.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I was going to start off a list with Heinlein or Terry Moore or some such and drift from there, but I realized that by now, I've reread so many of my books so many times that more or less any of them are good as "comfort reads." Fraser's Flashman books, Eco, Leonard Cohen's poetry, a very well-worn copy of the Odyssey, various books on Late Antique and Medieval history, and more often lately, some well-loved physics text, like Peskin & Schroeder or Green, Schwarz & Witten...

Okay, I have wierd comfort reading habits, I realize this. I think that lately my habit has just been that any sort of reading at all is comforting, so any book that happens to be too close gets to be the next target.