<p>I’m halfway through Schindler’s List right now. It’s already one of my favorites!</p>
<p>^Isn’t that a movie?</p>
<p>EDIT: Sorry, just searched it. The movie was based on the book Schindler’s Ark</p>
<p>Orlando by Virginia Woolf!!
I want to weep and laugh!!
Woolf’s the best ever stylist I know!! Excelling Marcel Proust in some parts! (a certain portion of Proust has gone too far, I have to say)</p>
<p>In Orlando Woolf’s at her best: she surpasses Walter Scott in historical portraying; excels Proust in composition; beats Thomas Carlyle in poetic style; eclipses everybody, Thackeray, Wodehouse, Jerome, by her unique sense of humor!! ( the manuscript got holes so big that one can put a finger through…
:D)</p>
<p>and especially that part about THE GREAT FROST!! it’s sooo funny-the bird frozen in mid-air fell stone dead…:D</p>
<p>On the Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt.
It was actually pretty good. I read this because my friend forced me to, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.</p>
<p>1984 by George Orwell.
AAH! I loved this!!! I went into this thinking it’d be boring, especially to a 14 year-old girl, but I think this is now one of my absolute favorite books.</p>
<p>what else have I read lately…</p>
<p>OH!
How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls by Zoey Dean
This was just a fun read. HILARIOUS.</p>
<p>Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell had an interesting chapter on why college tuitions keep rising. Before that I read The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford which talks about basic economic principles.</p>
<p>Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, I was doing my librarian duty at school and came across the book.</p>
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<p>Started and finished Lighting by Dean Koontz today. Good, fast-paced thriller.</p>
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<p>lol what does that mean? Proust is amazing. Reading his work is like writing it yourself</p>
<p>Started and finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot today. Super interesting.</p>
<p>Man, work gives me a lot of reading time.</p>
<p>lately i’ve finished “the girl with the dragon tattoo” and “the girl who played with fire”, both of the millenium trilogy. both were seriously great and highly recommended, but the first 75 pages of “dragon tattoo” is a bit slow.</p>
<p>@CelaPlusAimaple
I mean, in some places in À la recherche du temps perdu he really digresses too much.When I read these parts I feel him to be an 80-year-old loquacious duke or something.</p>
<p>Have about 50 pages left before I finish A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving for AP Literature summer reading. It’s a pretty good book and Owen Meany is an extremely memorable character.</p>
<p>The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. It’s a cute novella about Elizabeth II reading. It’s funny and poignant. I read it because I loved The History Boys, also by Bennett, which I read for school last year.</p>
<p>Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis, epic.</p>
<p>Okay I just reread some of the first few parts of This Side of Paradise last night.
But before that I read Hourglass which is from the Evernight series written by Claudia Gray. And I don’t expect CCers to know this, since it’s vampire fiction. I read it because 1) I started the series so… 2) For my ‘reading log’ in English 3) it is in the NY Times Bestseller list which means I want to know why it is popular.</p>
<p>Out of Mao’s Shadow…It opened my eyes; before reading it, I did not realize just how capitalistic China is.</p>
<p>^ If you’ve read the news in the last decade, you should probably know how capitalistic China is.</p>
<p>^If you’ve been around since ever you’d probably watch the news on TV</p>
<p>^ No, you read it online.</p>