*Summer Reading Lists*

[Victoria King]

adding as well!hehehe, more books are being added nance, whic is good but also bad becuase even though summer is long it isnt that long!HA!

 

[Vaughn_Lovah]

yay!
I recomend it to you all. Its not that long of a book at all so dont worry. ^_^

 

[Aliasgirl47]

Read The Hermit Thrush Sings for Sci-fi (very quick read)
Read Ella Enchanted or The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine for Fantasy
Read Jane Eyre for a Classic

Those are some of my favs, and got to go to school now!

 

[SydneyBristow201717]

i've sorta want to try the Gossip Girl Series, but my mom would freak since there a TON of sex and drugs and drinking in the books. there's this snotty girl at school who wants to be just like them and she though I was POOR because I don't wear Chanel Couture Clothes! Seriously! I really like the Protector of the Small Books! And I read all the Alias books in 2 hours or less. I'm sick today and my mom's at the dentist so I'm watching the Alias Season Finale!! I;m a speeed reader. What's your favorite Alias book? I can't wait for the Vaughn series. I think there will be a little romance. I'm a sucker for romance! I started reading Jane Eyre but never finished. I read a book of Charlotte Bronte's poetry for school. It was good. Anything i except for the Circle of magic by Tamora Pierece is GREAT! I LOVED the Count of Monte Christo, my english teacher read us a condesend version, since we didn't have time for the long one and we were in between units. We were suppose to watch the 1950's movie version of it. But we never did. on the Alias finale i'm on the second part where Irina is explaining her agenda. this was a long reply!

 

[bluheart13]

i did like Old Magic but i cant remember who wrote it.

 

[Jonathan]

Okay, here's mine:

Required reading:
1. Ambling into History - Frank Bruni
2. The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas L. Friedman
3. Bush at War - Bob Woodward
4. Betrayal of Public Trust: The Colapse of Global Public Health - Laurie Garrett
5. A Future Perfect - John Micklethwait and Adrian Woodridge
6. Unilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: International Perspectives - David M. Malone and Yuen Foong Khong
7. The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century - Bruce Berkowitz
8. Putin’s Russia - Lilia Shevtsova
9. The Tragedy of the Middle East - Barry Rubin
10. Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement - Selig S. Harrison.
11. Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order - Robert Kagan
12. Globalization and Human Rights - Alison Brysk
13. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (Coghill translation)
14. Oedipus the King - Sophocles (Burgess translation)
15. The Once and Future King - T.H. White


For fun (some re-reads)
1. The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Absalom, Absaolom! - William Faulkner
3. Beloved - Tony Morrison
4. Song of Solomon - Ibid.
5. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
7. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Whew!

EDIT: Whoops - forgot (under fun)
8. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (Ricci translation)
9. The Hours - Michael Cunningham

 

[Nad]

If you haven't read the Count of Monte Cristo, DO!!! It is very good.

 

[nance]

that's on my list!!!

and johnathan... Catch-22 - Joseph Heller i wanna read that! and i thought The Hours was written by Viginia Wolf!

 

[Jonathan]

Nope, she's just a character in it...

 

[Kewii]

ok i guess i am the only one who disliked Jane Eyre with a passion.

I want to read Harry Potter this summer, of course
as well as I would like to finish the Iliad, and maybe read the Odyssey both by Homer.

I cant really come up with any other right now

 

[Jonathan]

I read the Iliad and the Odyssey in greek. They were good.

 

[nance]

I read the Iliad and the Odyssey in greek.  They were good. 

wooooaaahhh... omg!!! *in greek* like ALL greek alphabet and all! dude... i'm jealous... i stink at languages ^_^

oh i fogot to add... i read some excerpts of it for SS class... achilles amuses me! :lol:

 

[SydneyBristow201717]

i'm learning russian and georgian right now. my 23 and 24th languages. not fluently but i know some phareses in all of them.

 

[Marlene]

I read the Iliad and the Odyssey in greek.  They were good. 

wooooaaahhh... omg!!! *in greek* like ALL greek alphabet and all! dude... i'm jealous... i stink at languages ^_^

oh i fogot to add... i read some excerpts of it for SS class... achilles amuses me! :lol:

In greek?!?!? WOW! I didn't get all that far in the english version. But I read parts of Troilus and Cressida. Achilles playes quite a role in that book. I remeber doing a 6th grade play about it. And being that there were 9 boys and 18 girls in my class I was Achilles!!!

 

[Nad]

Any extra good suggestions?

 

[pasta_sauce385]

well, i haven't read much for SUCH a long time which is really sad since i used to read a lot, so i don't really know what good books there are anymore....but this thread is a REALLY good idea because my goal for the summer is to start reading again....so yeah thank you to whoever has posted the good books there are these days!!!

and SB201717.....23 to 24 languages?? holy felgercarb!! i'm impressed!!!

 

[*SPYnish*]

This is My List:

1. Regards from the Dead Princess (Kenizé Mourad)

2. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follet)

3. Don Quixote (Cervantes , It´s very Bored)

4. Dragonlance.

5. Not Without My Daughter (Betty Mahmoody)

6. All of Danielle Steel

etc etc ....

Ohh, And Obviously LOTR

 

[nance]

fearless spynish..... ...... ........ :bye:

 

[SydneyBristow201717]

and SB201717.....23 to 24 languages?? holy felgercarb!! i'm impressed!!!

Thank you! Privyet! (hi in russian).

 

[SydneyBristow201717]

fearless spynish..... ...... ........ :bye:

I'm thinking of trying Fearless...