Alrighty, so I haven't been able to pick a book for the last few weeks, so I have finally come up with a solution. This isn't a new idea of mine, but I've been planning to do it for quite a while, and now is the perfect time to start. My idea: choose one book from each year of high school to re-read during my last months of high school as a sort of refresher-course. Ho, ho, how novel. After careful deliberation, here is my tentative reading list for the upcoming months:
1. Freshman year: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
During my 7th and 8th grade years, I read this in the month right before school got out. It is, and will remain, a Summer book for me.
2. Sophomore Year: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
GKC's all time favorite Shakespearean play, I can't wait to explore it again now that I understand Shakespeare-speak.
3. Junior Year: The Great Gatsby by F. (Francis) Scott Fitzgerald
Who doesn't love Gatsby?
4. Senior Year: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Admittedly, I didn't actually read this when the rest of my class did. But I will now!
And finally, a few "extra credit" books in case I want to continue this project after my core four:
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Wild/Wilde love is prevalent among young adults everywhere.
-Paper Towns by John Green
An end-of-senior-year book if ever I met one.
-and Eighth Grade: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
I read this during a solitary fall evening, S. E. Hinton is fantastic.
Whenever I finish a book on my reading list, I'll recount blasts from the past (that is, if I get any), and review them as better or worse than I remember. Anyways, this should keep me busy for awhile, but I've started Mockingbird and it is divine.
Aufiderzein!
I don't think that I have read even one of those books. Yet. I'm not a fan of Shakespeare, anyway.
ReplyDeleteYou should definitely read To Kill a Mockingbird! If you read it with/in a class, it can be pretty dull--but the town it takes place in (Maycomb) is so vivid, this novel makes me want to move to Alabama and name my first born son Atticus.
ReplyDelete"Admittedly, I didn't actually read this when the rest of my class did."
ReplyDeleteNeither did they ;)