<p>I originally posted this in the parents forum, but I would really like some suggestions from the brainy, Bama crowd. . .
Need gift book recommendations for the college bound
Hi all! I’m planning to tuck a few books away in my DD’s luggage when she leaves for school this fall.
We’re a family of readers and I love to find and give great reads. So far I’ve found a trivia book specific to D’s school, and The Naked Roommate: and 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College (a used-like new from amazon bargain!) and both look like winners. I’ve also ordered Women Who Run since D is big on the sport.
Have you come across any promising titles for kids leaving home for the first time? I’m imagining D in her dorm room after a couple of weeks, probably a little homesick and still adjusting. I want to send some words of wit, comfort, advice. Found any good ones?</p>
<p>My older son loves to read, but he bought more books then he could read this year. So, he brought home a bunch that will be “beach reads” when we head to Calif in a few weeks. </p>
<p>Here’s some of what he bought home to finish reading…</p>
<p>Running with Scissors
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Last of the Mohicans
Les Miserables
Heart of Darkness
Choke
The Count of Monte Cristo
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis and Other Stories</p>
<p>I’ve read The Naked Roommate: and 107 Other Issues Your Might Run Into in College and thought that it was a good book.</p>
<p>While I do read a lot of well-known books, I’m not sure how comforting they would be. Last summer, I decided to read A Clockwork Orange, which I don’t consider a comforting book at all.</p>
<p>This summer, you could suggest that she read a book that is about UA. I hear that Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer is good book and to get a sense of UA’s history, I read Segregation’s Last Stand at the University of Alabama. While not the best novel, Mud on the Stars deals a lot with life at UA during the Great Depression, it is also being read in an Honors Common Book Experience class this fall.</p>
<p>I bought my kids a few of those “hints about college life” books used from Amazon. They read them over the summer before going to college.</p>
<p>I read them, too. There were a lot of good hints in them. </p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> The Everything College Survival Book: From Social Life…](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Everything-College-Survival-Book-Skills-all/dp/1593373341/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276431547&sr=1-5]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Everything-College-Survival-Book-Skills-all/dp/1593373341/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276431547&sr=1-5)</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> How to Survive Your Freshman Year: By Hundreds of College Sophomores, Juniors, and…](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/How-Survive-Your-Freshman-Year/dp/1933512148/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276431616&sr=1-14]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/How-Survive-Your-Freshman-Year/dp/1933512148/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276431616&sr=1-14)</p>
<p>There were a couple of others…one was a “sequel”, but I can’t find them now.</p>