Summer Reading

[Rye]

What is your assigned summer reading list? I'm interested, because summer reading tickles me.

I have to read 5 books this summer for AP English.

Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (Currently reading)
All My Sons - Arthur Miller
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (I read that one first, great book)
The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer
King Richard III - Shakespeare

[scrumpleberry]

I'm planning on going on a Steinbeck rampage (read Cannery Row and Mice and Men a few months back and loved them) and rereading LoTR. I have been steeling myself to read through ALL of Aragorn's ballads. It will be very dull, but I think I should.

I'm also rereading HP again because I'm drawing lots of HP stuffs at the mo.

[Necronopticous]

I assigned myself a few Tim Rogers reviews I never got around to reading.

[qwertysaur]

I don't have a summer reading list, but good luck with AP English.

[Nominus Experse]

Someone give me one, please.

[Fonzie]

Someone give me one, please.

Ay.

[Ouch!]

The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien (duh)
Raintree County - Ross Lockridge Jr.
Bulfinch's Mythology - Thomas Bulfinch
Why I Write - George Orwell
The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson

Among others. I figure it's about time I finished reading LotR. I tried reading it ages ago, but it was difficult to get through the book; I'm perfectly fine rereading novels, but to go through something for the first time knowing everything that's going to happen is difficult. My friend who spoiled it is a jerk, and I'm an idiot for listening anyway.

There's a couple other books I intend to read (such as The Chicago Manual of Style, but those aren't on my immediate concerns list. I'm also considering finishing On Bull:skull::skull::skull::skull: which is really about the concept of bull:skull::skull::skull::skull:, as studied by a Harvard professor.

[Namelessfengir]

olympus
1635 - the cannon law
1634 - the baltic war
star wars lof exile (when it comes out. i love this series)
plus whatever manga i can get my hands on.

[I Took the Red Pill]

The Scarlet Letter is all we were actually assigned (which I've decided to procrastinate the hell out of, because from what I hear it's terrible), but we're supposed to have read at least 10 books on a provided list of about 20. And since I've already read 15 of them, I'm not going above and beyond the call of duty to read the other 5. I'm trying to read most of Charles Dickens' works this summer just for enjoyment. So far I've read Hard Times, Bleak House, and Oliver Twist. Hard Times was byfar the best.

[McLovin']

We don't get a list...

We have one book to read...

"Curious Incident of the dog in the nightime"

That is really what it's called.

[Arc_Master_14]

HAHA NO SUMMER READING FOR ME!! ^_^ haha i got out of honors english 9 so there was none for me to do

[Resha]

Dickens; Hard Times
George Eliot; Adam Bede or Silas Marner
William Blake; Songs of Innocence and Experience
Hardy; Far From the Madding Crowd

And I have to finish "The Homecoming" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" too. England-ness overkill.

[Heath]

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Ursula Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu

Edit: Whoops. This isn't assigned, just what I want to read, but oh well!

[scrumpleberry]

We don't get a list...

We have one book to read...

"Curious Incident of the dog in the nightime"

That is really what it's called.

You will either love it or hate it. It is a unique book, I quite liked it but lots of my friends hated it.

[Heath]

We don't get a list...

We have one book to read...

"Curious Incident of the dog in the nightime"

That is really what it's called.

You will either love it or hate it. It is a unique book, I quite liked it but lots of my friends hated it.

From what I've read of it (I'm about half way through), I've found it to be a very enjoyable read. The style of the writing is something I'm really envious of because it's terribly convincing. Most people I've spoken to have seem to commended it and was recommended it by several people, including my English teacher.

[Breine]

I've decided to read the following books this summer (so far I've read the first one on the list):

- The Hobbit - Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
- The Fall of the King - Johannes V. Jensen
- ... and if I have the time: Harry Potter 7.

[Rye]

"Curious Incident of the dog in the nightime"

!!!

My brother has that on his summer reading list. I looooooved it.


The Scarlet Letter is all we were actually assigned (which I've decided to procrastinate the hell out of, because from what I hear it's terrible), but we're supposed to have read at least 10 books on a provided list of about 20. And since I've already read 15 of them, I'm not going above and beyond the call of duty to read the other 5. I'm trying to read most of Charles Dickens' works this summer just for enjoyment. So far I've read Hard Times, Bleak House, and Oliver Twist. Hard Times was byfar the best.

I read The Scarlet Letter during the school year. It was pretty awful, so dry and boring.

My advice? Sparknote it.

[Ouch!]

The Scarlet Letter is all we were actually assigned (which I've decided to procrastinate the hell out of, because from what I hear it's terrible), but we're supposed to have read at least 10 books on a provided list of about 20. And since I've already read 15 of them, I'm not going above and beyond the call of duty to read the other 5. I'm trying to read most of Charles Dickens' works this summer just for enjoyment. So far I've read Hard Times, Bleak House, and Oliver Twist. Hard Times was byfar the best.

I read The Scarlet Letter during the school year. It was pretty awful, so dry and boring.

My advice? Sparknote it.
Sparknote everything.

[Hambone]

Just recently, I re-discovered how much I love reading. I haven't read as a hobby since 2nd grade. Right now I'm catching up on the Harry Potter series (5th, which is my favorite so far) and I'm reading Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Rye]

I loved Memoirs of a Geisha. :]

[Hambone]

I'm thoroughly enjoying it. :)

[Momiji]

"Curious Incident of the dog in the nightime"

!!!

My brother has that on his summer reading list. I looooooved it.


The Scarlet Letter is all we were actually assigned (which I've decided to procrastinate the hell out of, because from what I hear it's terrible), but we're supposed to have read at least 10 books on a provided list of about 20. And since I've already read 15 of them, I'm not going above and beyond the call of duty to read the other 5. I'm trying to read most of Charles Dickens' works this summer just for enjoyment. So far I've read Hard Times, Bleak House, and Oliver Twist. Hard Times was byfar the best.

I read The Scarlet Letter during the school year. It was pretty awful, so dry and boring.

My advice? Sparknote it.

I liked The Scarlet Letter. :cry:

[McLovin']

I like the dog book.

[Resha]

I disliked the dog book and I liked The Scarlet Letter.

[Disco Potato]

I don't have assigned summer reading this year, but the summer before I took AP English I had to read Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. WSS is kind of a different take on JE and was pretty interesting, but JE itself was really, really boring (at least to me...every other girl I know who's read it loves it).