i'm reading a book called Stargirl. it's by Jerry Spinnelli. my teacher read it to us in fifth grade, but i don't recall anything, really. but my english teacher assigned it to us. today was the first day she assigned it. we had to read to the end of chapter five (pg. 26), although we are aloud to read farther. but, by choice i'm on chapter nineteen (pg. 100). lol. yeah... it's really good. i forget how it ends and i'm REALLY curious. i'd suggest it to you if you haven't read it already.

just finished Trickster's Choice and Pirates! for name that book.

im about to start My Sister's Keeper

Let's keep this topic alive!

I'm going to try to get my hands on some Alice Munro. She's a really ace short story writer, at least from what I've heard/read. I read a story of her's in a class and my roomate who's read more of her stuff loves her, so now I'm interested in the other stuff she's done.

Everything that Rises Must Converge by Fannery O'Conner

Currently re-reading The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe before the movie comes out. =)

Tomorrow I'm gonna go to Boarders and pick up Catch 22 ... I've been wanting to read it for a long time now.

So had I...I still need to finish. Haven't touched it in months

I also need to read The Princess Bride because Ian is forcing me to. In return, I shall force him to drink lots of coffee.

I also want to read the sequels to Wicked and Eragon. I'm trying to knock out the books I can read fairly quickly before I have to start working on my IB oral, which will rape me (haven't' decided whether to do it on Flannery of the Orwell essays yet, either. I think I'm going to switch to Orwell, because then I can postpone it until January)

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells- I read it for a book report and HATED it, mostly because i not only did a book report on it, but it was the topic for my term paper last year that I got a lousy C on. (with that run on sentence you'd think I'd have failed). It was a really interesting book though. Good plot.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath- it's kind of a dark book, I read it in 8th grade and I loved it. Sylvia Plath is a great writer. It's semi-autobiographical, which makes it more interesting.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley- Stunning story about the future. It's fabulous.

Death be not Proud by John Gunther- Very, very sad. Made me cry. It's a great book though.

The Once and Future King by White- AMAZING story. King Arthur, Lacelot, ah, it was just fantastic

I read that book for 8th grade.. and it was ok at times, but mostly to me it was just really boring. Though, that could have been because I read it for school..

Oh, oh! New list!

My list:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines: It's extremely interesting, especially since it's so realistic and touches on racism extremely well.

The Giver by Lois Lowry: I'm reading this for school, but so far, it's fascinating. Her take on the uptopian society is great.

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: I haven't started on this yet, but it doesn't seem too great. Oh well, I had to pick a classic for school.

What I want to read:
edit: Animal Farm by George Orwell: The plot itself is really unconventional, and I'd like to see how the utopian society in this book compares to the one in The Giver.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: The background and historical significance of this book only makes me want to read it even more.

Eldest by Christopher Paolini: The next book in the Eldest trilogy, which I adore.

Don't expect to find it utopian--the book is an allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

i know why the caged bird sings- have to read it for class. intersting though. talks about how this black girl wants to be white.

eldest- got to page 40 and i got bored of it. personally, i think paolini is jsut another crazy tolkien fan.

Yikes. Really? Oooh, that should be quite interesting.

i'm not gonna try to sound smart so whatever
---I know why the caged bird sings
---Little House On the Prairie<-----c mon they're classic and midwestern...like me...
---A Day No Pigs Would Die
---Gossip Girl <----I must admit I'm addicted
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Of Mice and Men and anything else by John Steinbeck.....truly wonderful

I just picked up this book "What Happened to Lani Garver." I wasn't expecting much from it, but I couldn't put it down. I literally sat down for HOURS and finished it in one sitting. The book was written a few years after the incident in Laramie, Wyoming with Matthew Shephard and I can see a few parallels in the story. It's a beautiful story that deals not only with the big issue of homophobia in America, but struggles with peer pressure, anorexia, and depression.

I'm going to be reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath for an independent reading project for my american literature class. It seems like a very intresting read, is it worth my time though?

Animal Farm- because I have to do a book report on it, so I don't like it much.
To Kill a Mockingbird- I am going to read it for English, but people say it is a really good book. Looking forward to it.
The Odyssey- Eww. A long epic that I don't understand.
Romeo and Juliet- Read it and love it.
Of Mice and Men- Gonna read it soon and people say it is good.

Fahrenheit 451 <-it was great!

reading the odyssey for school & just finished the bonesetter's daughter by amy tan a few days ago.
loved tbd.

some of what's on my ginormous book list:
the history of love - nicole krauss
think and grow rich - ?
anna karenina - leo tolstoy (tried reading this over the summer & didn't get very far)
wicked & confessions of an ugly stepsister

rawr. stupid dinky little-town libraries.

Reading:

-Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wutzel. - So far it's amazing.


Books I'd recommend:

-Any of David Foster Wallace books. His books, aside from Injest, are all like short stories back into one book. They are very indepth. I've read three of the books. My favorite was the Girl with the Curious Hair. I kind of made him sound lame in this little snip, but really, I think he is an amazing auther.

-Crank by Ellen Hopkins. - Alot like Go Ask Alice only her story is told through poems.

-the Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. -Chbosky just has an amazing way with words. It's a wonderfull book.

im about to start reading Cold Mountain for english lit. yeah, the one with the nicole kidman movie.

oh, and the chronicles of thomas covenant, apart from convincing me that i have leprosy, are very good

Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom

I just finished reading that Dickens perennial classic, Great Expectations. It was my first time getting through the whole thing after several attempts and I really enjoyed it. The last 100 pages or so kinda suck but it's still something everyone should read at least once.

The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor. I also recently finished Shadow Play by Charles Baxter and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman.

I just started reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. So far, it's pretty good.

i just finished random family by adrian nicole leblanc. this is an amazing book. it really changed my perspective of life, and it changed me in so many ways. i really recommend it.