<p>...should I bring to my summer program?</p>
<p>Okay, so TASP isn't exactly a desert island, and I'm sure I can buy books while I'm there, but I wouldn't feel right if I didn't take some novels or short story collections with me. I'm the sort of person who blows through a book a day, on a good day. I don't mind rereading, thankfully. That is, if I liked the book in the first place.</p>
<p>How many is too many? </p>
<p>I'd also appreciate recommendations. :) I figure I'll bring a couple of old favorites and then get some new ones as well. My tastes are pretty eclectic, so suggest anything. Long is good.</p>
<p>bring What is the What</p>
<p>Depends how long the program is and how much free time you think you'll have. Maybe 3-5? I think that sounds like a good number, but I could be wrong as I have no idea what TASP is, lol. </p>
<p>Recommendations: (These are my favorite books, haha)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (awesome)
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Jodi Picoult books (The Pact, Nineteen Minutes, Perfect Match, etc.) </p>
<p>I don't know if you'd like them, but I absolutely love all of those books. :D</p>
<p>i struggled with this too last summer...<em>really long, but hopefully helpful</em></p>
<p>my experience: i went to a really intensive program (6 credits in 3 weeks) and was going to bring 4-5 books, figuring I'd be so bored, and I'd have finished them by the 2nd week...but my mom forced me to only take 2 (luckily!). I read one on the plane, and then it took me all three weeks to read that other book-which is painful for me to admit as a voracious reader (I read 60 books one summer! and now only 1 for about half of a summer?!?) but the thing is, I had a great time. you don't know how much fun it will be to hang out with people who understand you and are SO COMPLETELY different than wannabes at school. Honestly, I met great friends who I still talk to, and the best part/only part of our time together was the nights when I <em>could</em> have been reading. Also, I had a lot of studying for exams during my program, so I didn't want to a) not be with friends b) not studying c) not sleep...to do something I'd be likely doing in a week or two. </p>
<p>So, now my advice for you. TASP is six-weeks right? and you like a book a day? well...I think take a book for the airplane(s), then maybe two LONG classics (Atlas Shrugged ish) or four-six cheesy-fun books (Gossip Girl level) or three serious but not olde-English writing (Atonement, etc, type of books).</p>
<p>I'm going on a five-week program this summer, so I have to decide too. But, what I bring will be in large part determined by my summer reading list. All levels have to be over 1000 pages (usually 3-4 novels), but I had a lot more time last summer. I will probably bring Atlas Shrugged too, if I haven't read it by then, just because it's a long book and I don't want to have to bring 394839498 books on an airplane w/all my other stuff.</p>
<p>I just read The Fabulist and it was really entertaining.</p>
<p>I would bring six or so and if it was me at least one of them would be by Stephanie Meyer.</p>
<p>You probably won't need to bring any books if you're going to a residential summer program.</p>
<p>Are you adverse to nonfiction?</p>
<p>Bring Crime and Punishment. You can apply it to anything, and people will be impressed when you say, "But in Crime and Punishment..."</p>
<p>Oh wait, this is TASP. Everyone's already read it.</p>
<p>Bring Winesburg, Ohio. It's an awesome book.</p>
<p>Maybe you should get out of your room and go do something instead of reading?</p>
<p>I personally wouldn't bring any.</p>
<p>^Why would you ever want to do that?</p>
<p>I know. What was I thinking?!?</p>
<p>1-2 old favorites, 1-2 current bestsellers, 1-2 ones you've been meaning to read.</p>
<p>You probably won't get through more than that, and even if you do, you can always borrow books from people there :)</p>