Looking for summer reading books for our S19. I figure it might be good to go to students his age and see what they’ve been reading! He used to read a ton, but freshman year was reading heavy in school with A Prayer for Owen Meany, Romeo and Juliet, and more. I’m sure he’s looking forward to reading for fun again this summer but he’s also a strong reader so no junk please!
The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane is always good.
Legend series by Marie Lu is one of my favorites! The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken is also very good. @homerdog
So in addition to stapling my thumb and shaving off my skin this year, I just stuck my finger with lead. It was pretty deep in my finger and hurts like a b****
@homerdog The Heroes of Olympus series is really good!
My last grade (A+ in diff eqs) is in 
And I’m reading(ish) Go Set a Watchman 
I just read Reality Boy by A.S. King and I really liked it! @homerdog
Wait wait who liked my post HAVE YOU READ THEM TOO DAI STIHÓ TALK TO ME
@homerdog One of the favorite books I’ve read this year is Life of Pi. He might have read it in class (I did) but it’s interesting and challenging enough in that you need to think about it, but you don’t have to look up every other word.
Update on the engineering class: I talked to my parents about it, and my mom was against it but my dad is an engineer and is just trying to get one of his children to engineer so they’re gonna let me! I have to go in and talk to my counselor to see if it’s even possible to put it into my schedule/see if the class is full. I’ll probably be able to fit it into my schedule (you can change your schedule up to a week after you’ve started a class) but it might be full. Crossing my fingers!
@homerdog, Fahrenheit 451 is pretty good. The Giver and Touching Spirit Bear are other good ones, too.
Thanks, everyone for the book suggestions! Keep them coming! (Maybe this will end up being a good way for all of you to find summer books…)
Updog is pretty good.
@homerdog I enjoyed The Martian immensely; it’s real nice hard sci-fi set in the near future, and was fact-checked thoroughly on its science! The movie was pretty great, too. :v
A Farewell to Arms was pretty good, but made me prematurely dislike Hemingway. 
If he can get over the protagonist’s… charm, it’s a great look into how a war need not be fought by its supporters and the way people use each other to fill old wounds.
I’ve got a friend raving about The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan. A dude named Brandon Sanderson also worked on it, and his other book- ‘The Rithmatist-’ was a pretty compelling YA read!
So back in like March, the school gave us a form with what classes were scheduled for next year as a last opportunity to change classes easily (however it’s still possible). Included on that sheet was a list of at-capacity classes that you weren’t allowed to request. So, before I went in to see my counselor, I thought I’d double check and make sure the into to engineering class wasn’t one of these at-capacity classes. Of course, because I have the worst luck, it was, so I didn’t bother going in for the meeting. 
However, I was just thinking in class, that perhaps if I email him about it that he might be able to fit me into one of the classes? Do you think that I should see what he says even thought it’s already at-capacity?
It wouldn’t hurt to try, maybe just mention that you’re very interested but you recognize that it’s popular and maybe ask if you could be an alternate or something?
OH MY GOSH THE RITHMATIST I want to reread it bc I was distracted by reports and humidity last time I read it
Just missed one on my bio test
know my pain o_o @IrrationalPepsi
I only missed one on my last bio test too. & it was literally only because I didn’t see half of the question 
on a 50 point test, I misread one problem and answered an anticodon instead of a triplet