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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
 
"THE OLDEST BOOKS ARE STILL ONLY JUST OUT TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ THEM."~Samuel Butler

Summertime is the time when I supposedly have free time for doing things I enjoy, such as reading. However, I have not yet begun to make a dent in my summer reading list simply because I have been doing a lot of curriculum work at school since we finished. Yeah, we have been out of school for a week and a half so far, and I have gone in every day since we ended, for an almost full day of work.

This, however, should be coming to an end very soon. The rest of this week, and then maybe a day or two next week. Then, I shall read! So, in honor of the upcoming free time, I present you with my...

BEYOND OPTIMISTIC, & ENTIRELY UNREALISTIC SUMMER READING LIST
  1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves> by Lynne Truss
  2. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  4. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
  5. White Noise by Don DeLillo
  6. A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
  7. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
  8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  9. Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich
  10. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  11. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  12. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  13. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
  14. Icy Sparks by Gwen Hyman Rubio
  15. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
  16. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  18. Love by Toni Morrison
  19. The Light of Falling Stars by J. Robert Lennon
  20. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
  21. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  22. A Widow for One Year by John Irving
  23. Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton
  24. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
  25. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein
  26. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkein
  27. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe
  28. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  29. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolfe
  30. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
  31. Moo by Jane Smiley
  32. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  33. The Summons by John Grisham
  34. The Testament by John Grisham
  35. Hornet’s Nest by Patricia Cornwell
  36. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  37. The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
  38. Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
  39. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
  40. The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas
  41. Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet by John Douglas
  42. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  44. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  45. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams


No, I am not insane. Basically, what I did is I made a list of A) all the new books I recently bought B) all the old books still sitting on my shelves, unread, from summers past and C) all the books I need to re-read before I can teach them this coming school year. That, my friends, is what you see before you, in no real particular order.

Obviously, I am kind of doubtful that I will get to all of them this summer, but the ones that I have already read are crossed off. Feel free to ask me for a review of any of them as they get crossed off in the future.

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
~Mark Twain
 

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