create a booklist and read every book on it

This isn’t strictly part of the goal, but I’m a very opinionated person so, I just wanted to take a second to write about a couple books I really enjoyed, and a few that I didn’t.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
Personally I thought this book was hilarious, full of satire I wholeheartedly agreed with, and I am very much looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

To Kill A Mockingbird:
This book had a little bit of a slow start, but overall was compelling and left me wanting to read more nearly as soon as I’d stopped. The messages and themes I thought were quite brilliant, and there were some twists as I vehemently refused to watch the movie before I read the book.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There:
I’ve chosen to do these together because, obviously, they are sequels. To be honest, this is what prompted the little review session, as I thoroughly disliked both of these famed novels. While the book was easy to follow, the story drifted everywhere from talking, walking cards to the innocence of children to opposite worlds in mirrors. I thought it was quite ridiculous, which I was expecting. But I was expecting it to be ridiculous in a fun way with improbable things happening, yet a plot line, not just general wanderings. However, I found it to extremely pointless, and not even entertaining.

1) Eragon – Christopher Paolini (12/4/08)
2) Eldest – Christopher Paolini
3) Brisingr – Christopher Paolini
4) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
5) Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
6) Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
7) The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
8) The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
9) Five People you Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
10) The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkien
11) The Fellowship of the Rings – J.R.R Tolkien
12) The Two Towers – J.R.R Tolkien
13) The Return of the King – J.R.R Tolkien
14) The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank (2/13/09)
15) The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi (12/22/08)
16) The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
17) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
18) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
19) The Scarlett Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
20) And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
21) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (3/19/09)
22) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams
23) Life, the Universe and Everything – Douglas Adams
24) So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Douglas Adams
25) Mostly Harmless – Douglas Adams
26) Night – Elie Wiesel
27) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (4/8/09)
28) Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll (4/14/09)
29) Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
30) Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
31) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (3/7/09)
32) The Iliad – Homer
33) The Odyssey – Homer
34) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (3/4/09)
35) Le Petit Prince (French Language Edition) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
36) The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
37) The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

I’ll just come back and edit this entry when I think of more and bold and date them as they’re finished.