Read 10 books.

I used to love to read a lot… and then I became an English major… and I read a lot… too much, more than I could handle and it broke my love of reading a little. Since then, I’ve started a lot of books… but never finished very many of them. I get excited about a new book or I don’t read often enough or whatever and before I know it I don’t really remember what’s going on exactly in the book and I lose interest completely.

Lately, I’ve been starting to finish the books I’ve been reading. It started small with make-up books and books on self improvement, but has grown now to historic novels… I’d been setting goals to finish whatever book I was reading, but now it’s time to set a goal bigger than that. I want to read 10. This will be quite the accomplishment for me.

1. a pale view of the hills
2. Born standing up
3. Tito Ortiz Bio
4. Chuck Liddel bio
5. Dune
6. speaker for the dead
7. Xenophobia
8. 4 hour work week
9. 100 years of solitude

I brought a few books with me on my trip to Peru, but only ended up finishing Stiff by Mary Roach. It is about the ‘lives of human cadavers’, and I found it to be fascinating. Definitely worth reading.

Yesterday evening I finished reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, and I thought it was great. I have seen the movie [which is also great] and had been searching for the book for a long time when Ryan [friend] told me had a copy and would lend it to me. The book is similar to the movie, with some exceptions, but still very worth reading. One more book to go.

Today I finished reading a memoir called A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. It takes place in Sierra Leone where he lived and fought in the army as a child soldier. This book was fascinating and inspriational; Phil [boyfriend] started reading it the moment I was done. Two more books to go.

hopefully over the span of this summer. i have like 3 started that i just need to finish..

Yesterday I started reading Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres, and couldn’t put it down; I ended up reading the whole book in a matter of hours. Jesus Land is a memoir and tells the story of a girl and her adopted black brother growing up in Christian-Indiana. I highly suggest reading this book. Three more books to go.

Today Phil [boyfriend] and I both finished the books we were reading, mine being Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I really, really enjoyed this book; it was extremely interesting. I’m going to have Phil read it next. Four more books to go.

I finished reading I Don’t Want To Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz yesterday, after getting home from camping. This book is a story of a girl’s life and time in college while dealing with an anxiety disorder. I found it to be a bit young for me, and overall I wouldn’t recommend it as something to read. Five more books to go.

Last night I finished reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; I’m not sure if I liked this book or not. The first half didn’t hold my interest well, and the second half I didn’t really know what or why things were happening. Although after reading a little about Sylvia Plath this book became much more interesting as it is based after her own life experiances. Six more books to go.