Summer Reading

<p>@shulie26-GABO!!! Haha j’adore Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His books are beautiful-just…ah.</p>

<p>are you guys friggin’ serious?
for my AP Lang:
excerpts from:
Original Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition by Meriwether Lewis
Exploration of the Colorado River by John Powell
Mountains of California by John Muir
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
all nature related, non-fiction journals/essays… and we have to write about their sentence structures, showing vs telling etc… ***? clearly the point is to bore us and weed people out.</p>

<p>No English class :)</p>

<p>@TRUFFLIEPUFF Whoa, The Count of Monte Cristo? I’m working on that one right now and it’s definitely taking quite awhile.</p>

<p>AP English Language</p>

<p>Nickel and Dimed
Half the Sky
Down and Out in Paris and London
Into Thin Air</p>

<p>Actually, they are pretty good. (:</p>

<p>And Why Geography Matters? for AP Human Geography… I’m not even sure if I got in to that class though… so it stays for last.</p>

<p>oh snap.
those are some heavily reading loads.</p>

<p>The Scarlet Letter is a crime against humanity–it’s a travesty that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel found itself embedded within so many high school English curricula.</p>

<p>Of course I’m joking (kind of). The premise behind the novel is compelling and great (and I sincerely mean that), but Hawthorne’s use of the English language is like a mutant crossbreed between Shakespeare and John Steinbeck: long winded and never ending, with a prerequisite of at least sixty pages of words before a sentence can finally be completed.</p>

<p>In any event, I have to read Thomas Foster’s How To Read Literature Like A Professor (fantastic and very amusing) and Joy Kogawa’s Obasan for AP English (a light load by itself, but I’m reading a million other books on the side).</p>

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<p>Some of the greatest novels I’ve ever read were “translated” books. In fact, some of the better novels you’ll encounter or hear about in an English class will have been written in a country outside of the mystical realm of the English speakers…</p>

<p>Besides, Marquez is a fabulous writer and author. You should be happy to be reading A Hundred Years Of Solitude. It’s a fantastic novel, regardless of where it came from.</p>

<p>(Guns, Germs and Steel is another good one, too.)</p>

<p>I remember reading The Scarlet Letter last year. I didn’t like it very much but it got better when we discussed it. I’m in IB English - HL, and I feel like my books are different from you alls…but I have to read Mrs. Dalloway, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet!</p>

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<p>collegeattempt, I COMPLETELY agree with you!!!</p>

<p>AP Literature
Outlier: the story of success
Nineteen Minutes</p>

<p>AP Lit:
Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and The Fury</p>

<p>Screw english!</p>

<p>Math all the way!</p>

<p>IB Math HL - Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (really good book, recommend it.)
Hn. English - Things Fall Apart</p>

<p>I thankfully have few summer assignments.</p>

<p>For AP lit: Brave New World. And a short packet of free response questions.</p>

<p>sup</p>

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I love this book.</p>

<p>Yeah me too since it’s about science. It makes reading it bearable (I hate reading)</p>

<p>Great ending.</p>

<p>I heard the ending sucks. I haven’t finished the book yet, so don’t ruin it :)</p>

<p>AP Lang</p>

<p>The Crucible
Of Mice and Men
Anthem</p>

<p>Haven’t started yet.</p>

<p>^^I won’t, but post what you think of it when you’re done.</p>