<p>Flannery O'Connor and David Sedaris I'll check out. I did read O'Brien's Things They Carried and I enjoyed it.</p>
<p>When you get to college don't read spark notes. Make yourself do the reading.</p>
<p>Too late for that. All books have been returned. My school gives out class sets and when the class is done with the book they get returned and another class gets to use them. Some teachers go real crazy with this too.</p>
<p>I'm going to avoid sparknotes. I'm going to set a schedule for myself that I'll hopefully be able to follow this way I know when I have work due and when to do it so I have enough time.</p>
<p>I highly reccomend Flannery O'Connor's collection called, "A good man is hard to find" I don't particularly like the story by that name, but that collection is great. Also maybe go to the library and check out some of the books you didn't read but were supposed to. Maybe pick out the ones that slightly interested you and work from there.</p>