finish my summer reading list

I am celebrating with a luxurious bubble bath complete with dark chocolate and scented candles.

I’m on my last book – Atlas Shrugged. I need to finish by Sept 15th.

When I’ve completed this goal I will celebrate and then start on my fall list.

I had to make a slight revision to my list.

The library does not have a copy of Catcher in the Rye – I know that’s absurd. However, the library in a neighboring community has two copies,- unfortunatley they are both checked out. So, I am adding Catcher in the Rye to my fall reading list and replacing it with Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah.

Finished all 28….finally.

Here is my 2008 summer reading list:
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith – finished 7/08
2. Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah – finished 8/08
3. Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs – fininshed 5/08
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee – finished 6/08
5. Three Cups of Tea, By Greg Morteson & David Relin – finished 8/08
6. The Great Gatsby, By F. Scott Fitzgerald finished 6/08
7. the Kindness of Strangers, by Katrina Kittle – finished 7/08
8. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

by Jack Kerouac.

His writing style reminds me a little of Hemingway for some reason, and I am not a huge fan of Hemingway, so I had to actively try to get over that while reading it. Overall, though, I enjoyed reading this. I ended up starting a book not on my list right after finishing this. One Hundred Years of Solitude. So far it’s excellent.

The Bible – Why not?
War and Peace – I own it, but have never taken the time to pick it up and read it. I just got mono, though, so I’ve been spending a lot of time in bed drawing on things with sharpies. So now might be a good time.
On the Road – Only because I just picked it up at the library when I was out with a friend.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – For the same reason as above.
Atlas Shrugged – I started it last summer right before I left for college, but college got the best of me and the only reading I did was last minute cramming. How unfortunate.

Anyway, that’s my list. Not too ambitious, but we will see how much time I spend doing productive things. I’d like to get out of the “woo, I’m a college student” mentality and gain back a little bit of myself that I lost when I moved out. Doing it through literature seems like the perfect idea.

So I finished my summer reading list. I was under the impression 10 novels were required when actually it was only a suggestion. So I ended up reading 8 and then realised that I only had to read 5, o well I dicnt mind to much. Im glad to be done and happy that I was done in time…5 more days and Im back in school lol.

I just finished my summer assignments for english 2 and world history pre-ap. I’ve been working on them pretty much every minute today. I just printed out my history essay, which was a comparison of christianity, islam, and judaism, based on the book The world’s religions, by huston smith. also i wrote thirty journal entries, each a page long, ten for each of the following books: white fang, call of the wild, and wuthering heights. brag? dont mind if i do. it feels so good to be done. i can’t believe i waited so long. sophomore year starts in 8 hrs 21 minutes!

So I got a little side tracked but Im on my 5th book and back on track woohoo 5 more to go!