Are You an eReader, Rereader or eReader Rereader?

What makes us go back to read a book again and again? Is it like sneaking another piece of chocolate, and finding comfort in its sweetness? Or, on rereading, is its sweetness so cloying, you lose the taste for it altogether?

Some books, like E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, can be read again, and again, and again. To quote Charlotte, the book is “TERRIFIC.” Another tender gem about fathers, and sons, and coming of age is A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck. Through the voice of 13-year-old Robert, we learn he has two strikes against him: his father is a poor farmer and a Shaker. Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is juvenile science fiction, but doesn't the sentence, “I wanted to do it for you . . . that’s what every parent wants.” resonate with parents – helicopter or not - as with children?

Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is torn between romantic love and wifely devotion. Are her choices more or less tragic on second reading? What about J. D. Salinger’s cynical Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye or Joseph Heller’s alienated Yossarian in Catch-22? Have they changed on second reading or have you? Is Robert Penn Warren's novel, All the King's Men, as true in today's politics as it was in 1947?

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell or Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn? Both are good reads about bad girls. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf or The Light between Oceans by M.L. Stedman? Two good books about love and marriage. Which would you choose to reread?

Thanks to Shaker Library and Project Gutenberg you can borrow and/or download books for free to read again and again. So eRead, and reread to your heart’s content, and share what books you consider so delicious and timeless they rate rereading. Oh, and don't forget the chocolates.