Summer Reading 2007

"Well, I'm back."

The time has come to start thinking about this summer's reading list. I am definitely going to be a little bit more lenient this year. Now that I am an English Lit major, I will be reading classics all day long, so I feel that I am justified in reading only what I want, not what I feel that I should.

The rules for this summer are as follows:

• Alternate one classic with one contemporary book.
• Don't hold back.
• Get off the damned internet and stop watching tv shows on dvd.

So far the list is looking like this.

Classics:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• Maggie, Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane
• The Awakening - Kate Chopin
• The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
• Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  

Not Classics (yet):

• Harry Potter, V VI VII
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
• Man Walks Into a Room - Nicole Krauss

The classics are mostly books that my American Lit prof has made me feel like I should read. I am now an American Studies minor (possibly major), so I need to stock up on all that American lit you know.