<font color=purple>Miss James wrote:
Better get used to reading stuff that you don't want to read, Savannah. Unfortunately, that is a huge part of going to college!
True even in high school. Lord of the Flies...
*smothers William Golding*
*also smothers Charles Dickens*
*and Herman Melville*
*and Ernest Hemingway*
*and Herman Melville again, then has him drawn and quartered*
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CatGurl14
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<font color=purple>Miss James wrote:
Better get used to reading stuff that you don't want to read, Savannah. Unfortunately, that is a huge part of going to college!
Thank you for the warning Alli. :) I started the book last night, it's sooo boring but I'll manage, I'm also reading a book of neat short stories to balance it.
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Banquo
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Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson. Blisteringly funny take on hiking the Appalachian Trail.
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dragonzflame
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At the moment I'm reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Really, really good book although depressing. It's one of the only books that's ever made me cry.
I can't actually remember the last time I did cry in a book.
Also Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (also depressing), Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson (although you've probably read that and it's also depressing) and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (also depressing).
I don't seem to go in for cheerful stuff...although I have been reworking my way through the whole Anne of Green Gables series which is a bit nicer.
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DarkQueen
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Tales of The Otori trilogy - not worth missing!! Oh yeah, and check out Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtury as well - it's a pretty good western...
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Queenleaf
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CatGurl14 wrote:
Queenleaf wrote:
What day is that? I never read it... Are you going to EKU? I think you told me where but I forgot.
Yeah I'm going to EKU on the 17th of August. Seems so far but so close. *sigh* Where are you going again? And I wish I didn't have to read Angela's Ashes, I wanna read something else.
West Texas A&M University Canyon Texas (near Amarillo) violin performance dorms open August 24th but I'll probably have to go a couple weeks early. I'm going down to sign up for classes early early Wednesday morning. My flight leaves at 6.45 :<
new Harry Potter book about to come out... We'll all have some good reading material then! :)
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CatGurl14
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Queenleaf wrote:
new Harry Potter book about to come out... We'll all have some good reading material then! :)
Oh yeah! :D I'm going at midnight on the 15th with a friend to get it. :D
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Rockyuk
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Totally forgot about the new potter book!
Ordered it Agggges ago off amazon. Last 1 I got it around miday, stayed up all night and had finnished by the next morning. I get really absorbed in those books.
Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass (in that order) by Philip Pullman.
Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen (in that order) by garth nix.
All great books.
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dragonzflame
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Ohhhh...Harry Potter...
It isn't made available here until 11:01am so I'll go out sometime in the afternoon until all the queues have abated slightly and get it then.
I'm beginning to count down...only 11 days to go :-D
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SergeantPepperDG
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I just finished The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. It was required SUMMER reading for honors English. We were actually assigned two books- Curious Incident and The Bean Trees. Luckily, both were very good. My mom was giving me a hard time about starting them, because she thought I wouldn't have them finished in time for school. I ended up finishing both of them in less than a week. Curious Incident was so good, I started reading on Saturday night, and finished on Sunday morning.
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My Melancholy Blues
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yes, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was good. Well...I think that math problems given in the story were interesting. But while I thought over each of them, it prevented me reading the rest of the story, which was kind of annoying.
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SergeantPepperDG
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Luckily, I didn't understand any of the math in the book, so I didn't spend time thinking it over. The only math related stuff I understood was the quadratic formula.
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My Melancholy Blues
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Yeah, I ignored some formulas I couldn't understand after spending much time. I usually don't like to see some sorts of formulas especially...
