Chapter's of books you Reread when Short of time

[Lost_In_a_Book]

When I look at my bookshelf I see a number of books that I have that I keep around if for no other reasion then to reread one or two chapters when I am between books or short on time. The ones that come to mind right now

"The Hobbit"... Riddles in the Dark.
"Shoeless Joe"... The chapter where he meets the Dr. "Moonlight" Graham
"M*A*S*H goes to Main"... Call of the Moose.

These are chapters that stand alone from the rest of the books and are just enough to take off the edge between books. Or before I start a new one.

I have reread those Chapters so many times the Pages are well dog eared

 

[angerball]

Hmmm, I don't ever actually re-read chapters. I'll re-read a whole book, but never just a section of one. If I ever think back to my favourite part of a book, it makes me want to read the whole book, not just that section.

 

[sparkchaser]

I typically have a non-fiction book that has stand alone chapters lying around to serve as a palate cleanser between books but sometimes I'll reread a Neil Gaiman or David Sedaris short story.

 

[Wells83]

Fun, light books, by people such as Chelsea Handler, Tucker Max, or Augusten Burroughs do the trick occasionally. Handler and Tucker have books that are a compilation of biographical stories, with each chapter as a new story. Same with Burrough's Possible Side Effects and Magical Thinking. Other than that, I rarely read only a few chapters of a book, regardless of whether it's a reread.

Most of the time though, I'll dip into my book 100 Best Loved Poems. I like to memorize poems in my spare time, so I usually carry it with me all the time.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

If I need a quick fix, I'll read one of tales in my short stories collections.

 

[domani]

When I browse just a book chapter, it tends to be non-fiction. My go-to browser book is Eddie Muller's Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. Muller is both very knowledgeable about film noir, and has great humour in his writing - a combination unfortunately often not found in books on the subject.

 

[datb]

I tend to re-read chapters from non-fiction books that I have.
Sometimes the information on some of these books if somewhat technical and re-reading them will help me refresh my mind about the topic.

 

[Heteronym]

Oh, every once in a while I love rereading the third part of 1984: the terrifying, mind-blowing Room 101 conversations between Winston and O'Brien are some of the finest pieces of literature I've ever read in my life.

 

[JCMoney218]

I will usually go back over sections in non-fiction books. Wooden on Leadership and The Big Book of Small Stuff, to name a few.

As far as fiction there is a chapter in A Time To Kill by John Grisham that I will re-read from time to time just for the visualization I get in my head. The chapter is set on a patio of a restaurant located on Gulf of Mexico as the sun is setting. It is very relaxing.