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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)

Date: 2008-09-28 12:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mellebelle13.livejournal.com
i'm currently struggling my way through le petit prince. i say struggling b/c i haven't kept up with my french since freshman year of college.

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).

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