Summer Reading List

I've always considered myself a reader seeing as I read a lot and often have a book on me. But I haven't read anything of importance. Sure, I've read Austen, Bronte, and a good portion of Shakespeare's works, but that's a very small bit of all the classics out there. There are so many books out there I always mean to read, but never good. Charles Dickens, for example. I've never read any of his works and this kind of distresses me. So I've come up with a summer reading list. It's a short list, but I feel that I'll take me a good while to read it all. After reading and rereading just the first page of James Joyce's Ulysses I'm fairly certain that even beginning the summer reading now won't effect much.

1. Iliad - Homer
2. Odyssey – Homer
3. Ulysses – James Joyce
4. Lolita – Vladimir Nobokov
5. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rynd
6. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
8. Works of Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Works of Keats – John Keats
10. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkin (finish)
11. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
12. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
14. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
15. The War of the Worlds – HG Wells
16. David Copperfield – Charles Dickins
17. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
18. Middle March – George Eliot
19. Great Expectations – Charles Dickins
20. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
21. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

I don't plan to read these in this order, but I hope to read a good number of them. I'm beginning with Homer's two epics since I have a copy of both on my Nook and then I'll decide from there. I feel that finishing up the last book and a half of J.R.R. Tolkin's Lord of the Rings will be the easiest bit. I've never been one for deep thinking during the summer and profound books, I'm sure, shall cause great damage to my mind.

On a side note, I haven't written much more of my potential novel. I did, however, write two papers for class and study for three tests. Midterms are next week. I do hope that means a week of procrastination with Sims 3.

One day I ought to learn to go through and look over what I wrote to check for errors, but I can never seem to bring myself to care quite that much. Possibly because I currently write this for myself and only pretend I have an audience filled with interest. Maybe one day I will, but for now, it's just a vent with a bit of writing practice. (If I cared enough to check over what I wrote.)

DFTBA