What's Your Summer Reading List?
#1
Posted 11 June 2008 - 06:23 PM
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
and
Mythology by Edith Hamiliton
Flowers for Algernon was good but I'm not very eager for mythology.
- Kyu
Watching: Padam Padam...The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats - Ring Ring BellWaiting For: Pacemaker (movie) - Papa (movie) - Hotaru no Hikari (movie)
#2
Posted 11 June 2008 - 06:35 PM
its about a talking ape... incoming 9th graders usually dont have that much of an open mind to read this.... o_o
#3
Posted 11 June 2008 - 06:41 PM
Three Cups of Tea
The Kite Runner
The Namesake
and then I get to choose two other books from a list of books.


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#4
Posted 11 June 2008 - 06:42 PM
and
A People's History of the United States
Hello =)
#5
Posted 11 June 2008 - 07:07 PM
i actually read it in 8th grade but i hated it back then. lolz prolly cuz i couldnt understand it. hopefully it'll be better this time
i'm so glad i didnt sign up for AP lit next year cuz then i'd have 2 summer reading books. its not the reading i mind but the stupid packets that accompany them
#6
Posted 11 June 2008 - 07:08 PM
Breaking Dawn (When it comes out!)
Biology text book. (I want to go ahead ^^)
#7
Posted 11 June 2008 - 08:33 PM
AP Chem teexxttbookkk.
#8
Posted 11 June 2008 - 10:03 PM
#9
Posted 11 June 2008 - 11:43 PM
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Brave New World (I forgot..lol)
#10
Posted 12 June 2008 - 12:19 AM
Breaking Dawn! when it comes out..haha
#11
Posted 12 June 2008 - 05:35 AM
Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Brave New World (I forgot..lol)
- Kyu
Watching: Padam Padam...The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats - Ring Ring BellWaiting For: Pacemaker (movie) - Papa (movie) - Hotaru no Hikari (movie)
#12
Posted 12 June 2008 - 05:54 AM
LATER. sometime LATER.
I'm dying to read the Gemma Doyle series.
its got great reviews.
Atonement
Breaking Dawn
#13
Posted 12 June 2008 - 06:14 AM
heard it was really really GOOD
#15
Posted 13 June 2008 - 07:15 AM
and i have to read the Bible, and the Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde.
#16
Posted 13 June 2008 - 12:57 PM
-Wuthering Heights
- Pride and Prejudice
- [Forgot the name of the book, but its the shortest of the bunch]
Academic Decathlon
- Bless Me, Ultima <---- Was supposed to read a while ago, but I didn't. Not looking forward to it.
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My own reading list, books I WANT to read:
-Clockwork Orange
- Trainspotting
My friend actually let me borrow the books in the beginning of the school year, But of course no time.
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Studying Purposes:
AP Biology textbook [ACT and SAT Subject Test]
Astronomy notebook [ACT]


#17
Posted 13 June 2008 - 05:39 PM
Genki, my Japanese textbook.
For spare time:
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (more Edward & Bella)
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (heard it's good)
#18
Posted 13 June 2008 - 06:22 PM
Orwell, 1984
Ellison, Invisible Man
Smiley, A Thousand Acres
Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Lahiri, The Namesake OR
Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
I don't know if I'm going to have time to read some books I wanted D:
Five essays in two and a half months...so lazy...
Damn, summer's not as free as I thought.
I just said I'm very fond of the ground on which she walks!"
Little Linus.
#19
Posted 13 June 2008 - 06:29 PM
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
For fun:
Finish the Twilight series x]
I haven't had time to read all the books yet D:
#20
Posted 13 June 2008 - 06:53 PM
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
And reading the entire Chronicles of Narnia for fun.
































