Books

While checking out Amber's new blog I noticed a section entitled 50 books in 2007. I have added my 2 cents worth a few times (currently a grand total 6 cents) and I decided that if my comments were so long I should make a little post of my own.

I have to say that I love books. In case you have forgotten I was an English major, as in English literature. I chose that major because I was naturally good at it. Unlike other students in ENG 232, World Lit II, I didn't have to work hard to get a good grade on a paper, it just happened. When I was young, pre-college, I enjoyed reading books. My favorite Saturdays were those when I stayed in my pajamas in bed and read a book all day. While growing up I remember hiding out in the bathroom, tucking a towel at the bottom of the door so light wouldn't show through, in order to stay up late and read a book. The funny thing is that my brother, Scott, would do the same thing. There were times when we would race to be the first to the bathroom so it could become our reading sanctuary for the next few hours.

So far this year I have done a respectable job in the reading department. I am surrounded by books, and some appear to be quite interesting. Mind you, this is a middle school library, so they aren't always deep, meaningful, thoughtful, or classics, but they are good, interesting and fun books.

Books read in 2007:

Spiderwick Chronicles 1 & 2
A Wrinkle in Time
The Edge Chronicles bk. 1

While looking up the links for the books I discovered that A Wrinkle in Time is part of a quartet! I thought it was only a trilogy, I don't think I my library has the fourth book. I'll have to look into this matter.

Other books I enjoy, and some of these I will, hopefully, read or re-read this year:

Spiderwick Chronicles 3-5

Madeline L'engle - Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Wind in the Door, Many Waters

The Edge Chronicles bks. 2-7

L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables set (there are 6 books, plus a few more about Anne's and Gilbert's children)

Carroll - Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Jane Austen - I have her 6 novels, I have read 3 completely, and 2 partially. I need to read Emma, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abby

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Last of the Mohicans

Hansen - Running with Angels (from Deseret book)

Richard Paul Evans - The Christmas Box, Timepiece, and The Letter (I bought a combo paperback of all three)

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

John Milton - Paradise Lost (I read lots of this in college, it's so full of life and symbolism. Milton knew what he was talking about)

C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia (I did the first 2 last summer, but didn't get any further.)

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter series (in anticipation for the new movie and the release of book 7, Yippee!!!)

There are many more books. Really I want to work my way through my little home library. I would really like to read some of the books I've purchased or been given that I have yet to read. But, I think I will first focus on the books that are in my school library that I won't have access to over the summer.

The books I have read this year are great. If you have kids I highly recommend The Spiderwick Chronicles, the books are beautifully illustrated and only take an hour to read as an adult, so obviousl it will take longer with your child, but not too long. A lot of the middle school students read these books in elementary school, but they still love them and check them out as 7th and 8th graders.

I just finished The Edge Chronicles, Beyond the Deep Woods. My next book will likely be a Jane Austen, or the next book after A Wrinkle in Time. I have a book fair to run next week at school, so it may take a week or so to actually start the next book.

Or, maybe, I'll just pick one off the shelf as soon as I save this massive post.