Haha oh. I just can’t imagine my life without books, but everyone’s different
@pseudoprimal If you haven’t read 1984, you should definitely read it ASAP…
And if you have read it, isn’t it so interesting?
@dsi411 I’m acquainted with Marissa Meyer (I read Cinder a while ago), although I haven’t heard of the others except for A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
I love reading philosophy though haven’t had the chance to get through much-- working through heavy prose is often unthinkable after a long day of work. There are some overviews that are fun to read, though, like the Very Short Introductions books as well as one called Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, which is a wide overview of philosophical topics explored through jokes. I find Malcolm Gladwell’s books delightfully thought-provoking, and Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, and Douglas Adams are also favorites of mine.
I love The Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare.
Also read all the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus books by Rick Riordan.
Steelheart is also a good book; it’s part of The Reckoners series. I believe Firefight came out too.
Other books I’ve read include the Delirium series, Matched series, Maze Runner series, Divergent series, Hunger Games… Yeah, I am in love with dystopian books. Still am, too.
For English class this year, however, we read:
Persepolis
Dracula
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Soon, we’ll be reading Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Great Gatsby.)
What books have you all read in English?
I’m one of those people who actually enjoy reading required material for English class, but I equally love reading YA books and series. The Gone series by Michael Grant and the Legend trilogy by Marie Lu are my favorites!
@SallyStephens silly, silly, silly-- I hadn’t updated the page before I posted and didn’t see your post! To Kill a Mockingbird is a favorite of mine, as well, and I adore 1984. The first time I read it was during a summer science program, and I got to Winston’s torture & the 2+2=5 fingers scene during a break. I was super emotionally invested in it and right at the most intense part of the scene, the break ended and I had to go back to learning chemistry. It made for an interesting afternoon in chem, to say the least.
@SirSly we’re reading a A Midsummer Night’s Dream in English-- it’s probably my favorite assigned piece this year.
Hello! I am new here. My D wants to major in MT. I am here to learn what I can and help in this journey! I am blessed to have friends with children older than mine going through this currently. So with this site and them I feel confident I’ll be able to do this.
Currently right now we are looking into summer programs and trying to meet the deadlines.
Just wanted to introduce myself and my D.
1984 puts me through all kinds of emotions hahaha
Favorite BOOk = to kill a mockingbird. Love that book
@MALQSA It’s nice to meet you two!! Wish the both of you the best of luck! 
Let me know if you want any help with anything, I’d be happy to assist you.
Why do my teachers give me homework that is due the days when we don’t have class? Thanks, Chemistry teacher, for assigning me the post lab calculations and questions, which are due tomorrow even though we don’t have class. Looks like tonight will be another late night. Two tests and a major quiz next week with a busy weekend. Great.
@pseudoprimal My class is reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream too!
I wish I didn’t have to stay up until 1 to get everything done.
@SirSly I’m going to begin reading Never Fall Down for English this year. I also read Outliers by Malcom Gladwell for Economics.
Anyone have a four day weekend. I do. The only problem is I have debate practice tomorrow and a tournament Saturday from 6 am- 8pm. It doesn’t help with all the homework I got too
@SallyStephens that was the only book I read in school that was actually interesting to me. I spaced out on every other book lol
I can’t finish my homework until my classmates give me their data!
I wish it didn’t take me until 1 to do things too UGH
@MALQSA what is MT?
Did you guys have your midterms yet?? Mine start tomorrow…! Each test is 20% of our SEMESTER grade… so the pressures is ON.
We don’t really call them midterms but yeah I’ve been having a whole lot of tests these couple weeks. Today I had AP Chemistry and AP Calculus and tomorrow I have Spanish 3 and AP World History.
Next Tuesday I have AP Environmental and next Thursday I have an AP calculus chapter test
We are reading the book Night in English so we have periodic quizzes on those chapters.
Also- most of you won’t be able to comprehend this, but today in my Government class we were picking classes for next year, and one kid before me said he was going to be taking 3 APs Junior year, and the teacher AND TA who’s a senior FLIPPED OUT, saying that’s too much to handle for anyone (he’s a really good student), and how she would never agree to recommend him for the class he wanted.
I’m really not sure if the APs at my school are ridiculously hard, or if we are just…inept?
But taking 4 APs has become a herculean stunt only done by a handful of students every year.
I’m planning on taking
AP Chem
APUSH
AP Lang
Honors Precalc (considered ridiculously hard for a math class)
Honors Spanish 5
Honors Chinese 3
Honors French 1
Guitar (I need the fine arts credit)
Anyway when the teacher finally asked me about my schedule I lied, cause I knew she was just gonna yell some more.
The weird thing, is people from my school don’t even score very well on their AP tests (usually 3s, 2s and 4s) (always some 1s, and one or two 5s per class)
I’'m not even sure if my guidance counselor will let me sign up for the courses above… X_X