<p>books i just got from the library:</p>
<p>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Animal Farm
^ I know, I don’t know how I missed reading these before
Mendel’s Dwarf
The Sparrow
Scribbling the Cat</p>
<p>Angela’s Ashes is getting mentioned somewhat often. I had to read it for summer reading before junior year. I really enjoyed it, though I was somewhat put off by the writing style (tons of dialogue, but no quotation marks whatsoever). </p>
<p>It has plenty of tragic moments, but a lot of funny moments, too. I remember reading it on an airplane during a vacation flight, and reading the line “Shut your gob!” (an Irish exclamation used often in the book). I remember laughing quite outloud and hoping I didn’t frighten any of the passengers sitting near me. </p>
<p>There are a lot of random moments in the memoir (such as the quote above), but they end up making the read much “fuller” and more interesting.</p>
<p>Finally got the AP Lit reading list:</p>
<p>Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
The Third life of Grange Copeland (Alice Walker)
Cat’s Eye (Margaret Atwood)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)</p>
<p>Random selection for a class on English Literature…</p>
<p>oh, PEALS, i haven’t read Angela’s Ashes but i have read All the Pretty horses which also has no quotation marks. It made a bad book worse. I really hate that book…</p>
<p>Hi BewareofNerd. I haven’t read it (or seen the movie, which I don’t think got very favorable reviews, either).</p>
<p>What was bad about it?</p>
<p>(Angela’s Ashes is a good book, and I enjoyed reading it, but it wasn’t one of my favorites. It’s one of those books in which it is easy to see why people would either dislike it or truly like it, though.)</p>
<p>my summer reading list</p>
<p>NONE</p>
<p>It may not have helped that i had to read it kinda quickly, but i couldnt like it. I felt no connection to the main character, the other characters annoyed me, some events that could have turned out to be interesting or desirable ended anticlimactically and dissappointingly and I didn’t like the ending at all. I like books that really finish (with some exceptions) and i felt this one didn’t. I had to read it for a literature group in English class with 3 others and two of them liked, one of which thought it was one of the best we read in that group. Tastes, differ, i suppose but i couldnt stand that book</p>
<p>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime is a great book- was going to read only a couple pages but I ended finishing the entire book. It was so touching and moving, I felt like crying.</p>
<p>Argh, I wish I had a cool summer reading list.</p>
<p>Madame Bovarie
Techniques in Fiction
Lies My Teacher Told me
Calc Textbook…</p>
<p>1400 pages in all.</p>
<p>Only Gulliver’s Travels… although I have to write an extended essay over the summer, so that’s five or six books. And I checked out the 30 books my library allows for summer checkout, everything from Marcus Aurelius to Raymond Carver. I like books.</p>
<p>Speaking of which…</p>
<p>The Kite Flyer for Duke U.</p>