Audrey and I want to do a lot of reading this summer. Here is a list of books I want to read (I hope I’ll be able to read all of them!):
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Beauty by Robin Mckinley: A retelling of Beauty and the Beast
- Brendan by Frederick Buechner: A novel about St. Brendan
- Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (after Audrey finishes reading it)
I also want to read different short stories from anthologies that I have.
Anyone else have a reading list?
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I will be reading books having to do with ancient literature in preparation for next year. I will list some later. The first one is The Epic of Gilgamesh.
I read a part of “The Epic of Gilgamesh” in my world literature book. It is interesting the different style of writing. Not only how to put words (being translated that sort of style is difficult to compare) but the content. I shall post my reading list later, as well.
I don’t have much time to read books not related to my studies, but these are the books I’m trying to make some progress on:
One of the books on my reading list is “The Pilgrim’s Progress” and I finished it! I am so glad.
The other books I want to read are
I know, I am pretty ambitious! I don’t know if I will get them all read, with all the magazines I want to read, too (like astronomy, birds and blooms, better homes and gardens, world). I am also interested in reading the little house of the prairie books. So, that is my reading list!
As usual, I have a lot of books I want to read, which I probably won’t read. First of all, I want to read some American literature books, including:
1. The Scarlet Letter (by Nathanial Hawthorne)
2. The Last of the Mohicans (by James Fenimore Cooper)
3. The Song of the Lark (by Willa Cather)
4. Mystery and Manners (a collection of essays by Flannery O’Connor)
5. Moby Dick (by Herman Melville)
6. The History of the American People (by Paul Johnson)
7. and some American short stories and sermons as well
This is primarily for school (since I’m doing American History this summer), so I have other books I would like to read as well, including
1. The Jungle (by Upton Sinclair)
2. Mere Christianity (by C. S. Lewis)
3. Democracy in America (by Alexis de Tocqueville)
4. City of God (by St. Augustine)
5. Demons (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
6. Great Expectations (by Charles Dickens)
7. A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)
8. The Name of the Rose (by Umberto Eco)
And then, of course, I plan on reading a good amount of Jonathan Edwards’ works this summer as well. I don’t expect I’ll finish all these this summer (I tend to dream big when it comes to books), but I hope to accomplish a good amount of these. City of God and History of the American People are about 2,000 pages combined, so that’s a lot right there. Anyway, trying to plan out your fun in the summer can be quite overwhelming, as you can see. Hopefully I can relax as well!
Boy, all those books sound great to me, too! I have read The Jungle. I read it this last semester for US history. It was very interesting. I won’t say anything more for fear of giving anything away!
Did you say you are taking a class of American History this summer? As in, right now?
Yes, I’ll start Tuesday. I’m watching Dr. Grant’s (my teacher from Nashville) lectures, taking the tests, reading the literature books, and hopefully writing a paper on Jonathan Edwards. I hope it won’t be too time consuming, but I also hope that I can motivate myself to do it!
Did no one remember Christopher Poalini’s third book? By the way, does anyone know for certain what it’s title will be? I know there’s a rumor that it’s going to be called Empire, but so far as I know, It’s just a rumor.
Katie