Due to the WSJ piece, this week's theme is:
Summer Reading.
What you're reading now, what you want to read, what you were forced to read as a kid and hated or loved... Pretty much anything goes.
I'll post mine later today.
*Still no prizes. I'm working on it.
current:
are men necessary?
maureen dowd
want to read:
king of attolia
megan whalen turner
forced to read & hated:
grapes of wrath
(i still hate you johnsteinbeck. if you weren't dead, i'd kill you. (he's dead, right?))
Posted by: i hate emo kids | 28 July 2006 at 10:01 AM
Asked for Wuthering Heights
Oma got Jane Eyre instead
Read once a year since
Posted by: Leila | 28 July 2006 at 12:06 PM
Required reading? Ha.
Hippie college, no such thing.
Now: A Long Way Down.
Posted by: Lauren | 28 July 2006 at 12:15 PM
High School Junior Year
is completely gone. Blocked out.
Must have been awful.
High School Senior Year
Beowulf. Grendel. Wanderer:
no longer exists?
Posted by: Chrissy | 28 July 2006 at 12:50 PM
Need to clarify, mostly because it was driving me nuts. The book I referred to as The Wanderer, because that's what it was called by my teacher when I read it for AP english was actually Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier. I'm pretty sure it is atleast. I was just very bothered that there was seemingly no evidence of a book that I read in high school.
Posted by: Chrissy | 28 July 2006 at 01:15 PM
read what i want 'til
i remember school reading
and cram in august
Posted by: librainiac | 28 July 2006 at 02:31 PM
Five hundred pages
That is some big committment
Is Book Thief worth it?
Posted by: MotherReader | 28 July 2006 at 03:31 PM
For MotherReader:
how many yeses are five
plus seven? oh, rats.
Posted by: cc | 28 July 2006 at 04:36 PM
On my to-do list
At the top, in bold, all caps:
READREADREADREADREAD
Posted by: Mary Lee | 28 July 2006 at 06:09 PM
REQUIRED READING IN HIGH SCHOOL
Taking Tests on Books
Such a total waste of time
So glad for Cliffsnotes
Posted by: Franki | 28 July 2006 at 07:02 PM
Fifty-two kids' books,
Twenty adult books. My goal.
Achieved every year.
(Haiku-ing is almost as addictive as blogging!)
Posted by: Mary Lee | 28 July 2006 at 09:11 PM
There is a limit
To the Newbery winners
Sane women can take
(To clarify: I am methodically alternating Newbery winners and honor books with the top ten Best Books for Young Adults and books that I actually want to read).
Posted by: Emily H. | 28 July 2006 at 10:50 PM
SUMMER READING
I had me a blast.
Skipped the cereal boxes…
Tried books from the past
Twas love at first sight.
(I read some more, read some more!)
Filled my long, hot nights.
Then it turned colder
And that’s where this ends. But oh…
Those su-uh-mer boooooooooks.
(Please imagine the Johns (Travolta and Olivia-Newton) performing this far too short haiku cycle. Thank you.)
Posted by: Gregory K. | 29 July 2006 at 01:27 AM
If that song ends up in my head all weekend, you'll be in trouble, Gregory K!
Posted by: Leila | 29 July 2006 at 08:42 AM
No, Mom. I cannot
Read one more Danielle Steele book.
I'm sick of lusting.
Posted by: Carrie Jones | 30 July 2006 at 08:47 AM
Had to read: Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion. Okay, picked it from the library for a report--thank goodness the teacher let me pick something else after I read the whole thing and had NO CLUE!!1
Wanted to read: Anything with unicorns and elves and wizards and dragons.
Thought I wanted to read: The Magic Mountain. Along the lines of the previous sentence, I must have checked this book out 10 times from my elementary school (up through 6th grade) library and never opened it--probably due to the thickness! Years later, I found out there wasn't a drop of magic in the book--it was a TB hospital. (Right? I still haven't read it!)
Posted by: Becky Levine | 30 July 2006 at 11:08 PM