Writer's Block: R.E.A.D. in America Day
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Ironically, guess what I'm watching as I'm posting this? (On DVD; I had to search for this on YouTube...go to 2:23)
I just got done with the first book in the Gossip Girl series. I don't watch the show, but I figure I want to read the books before I get started on the TV show. I just got started reading the re-released Sweet Valley High book Playing With Fire, in which Jessica Wakefield turns into Bruce Patman's plaything. Then after that, I can FINALLY get started with Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Everyone's talking about these books...the movie's coming out soon...I put a hold on them at the library but I'm, like, 54th on the hold list. And....he didn't have to do it, it's not like I was hinting around for it....Kevin picked me up a copy of it. (Awwww...) But first I have to finish up SVH, which shouldn't take very long.
Reading is very important to me. I get bored very easily, and I like to read to kill the boredom. I feel it should be just as important to others to read. It enriches your mind. It encourages you to think and to use your imagination. I also think that the more emphasis you put on reading, the better of a speller it makes you. It's also important that parents read to their children, or with their children. Even something like a story before bedtime.
Books I would recommend to others? Start out with the classics:
--The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
--Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
--Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
--The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
--The Crucible by Arthur Miller (a play, yes, but a good read)
Ironically, guess what I'm watching as I'm posting this? (On DVD; I had to search for this on YouTube...go to 2:23)
I just got done with the first book in the Gossip Girl series. I don't watch the show, but I figure I want to read the books before I get started on the TV show. I just got started reading the re-released Sweet Valley High book Playing With Fire, in which Jessica Wakefield turns into Bruce Patman's plaything. Then after that, I can FINALLY get started with Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Everyone's talking about these books...the movie's coming out soon...I put a hold on them at the library but I'm, like, 54th on the hold list. And....he didn't have to do it, it's not like I was hinting around for it....Kevin picked me up a copy of it. (Awwww...) But first I have to finish up SVH, which shouldn't take very long.
Reading is very important to me. I get bored very easily, and I like to read to kill the boredom. I feel it should be just as important to others to read. It enriches your mind. It encourages you to think and to use your imagination. I also think that the more emphasis you put on reading, the better of a speller it makes you. It's also important that parents read to their children, or with their children. Even something like a story before bedtime.
Books I would recommend to others? Start out with the classics:
--The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
--Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
--Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
--The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
--The Crucible by Arthur Miller (a play, yes, but a good read)
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Date: 2008-09-28 12:46 pm (UTC)i'm also reading the tristan and isolde trilogy by rosalind miles. however, i've lost interest in the second book (and can't quite find it).