Update to the list. Only three days left until I am free to read whatever I want. Oh and it will be glorious.

Classics:

• Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  
• Whatever classics that I bought at a recent booksale but cannot remember now.

Contemporary:

• Looking for Alaska - John Green
• An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
• Possession - A. S. Byatt
• The Egyptologist - Arthur Phillips

I recently discover brotherhood2.com. And it is the most amazing thing. I completely adore it. These two brothers, one is John Green (see above), have decided to have no textual communication, only videoblogs and the occasional phone call. And they are both really cool guys. They like Neil Gaiman, Toothpaste for Dinner, They Might be Giants, the Mountain Goats, and their wives, who like knitting. They are intelligent and witty and cute and nerdy and just all around the best. I've spent the last two days watching every video that they've made so far. so, check it out. www.brotherhood2.com

Also, I hate finals. Le fin.

More.

So I have a couple more things to add to my list.

Classics:

• Thoreau Reader
  
• Emerson Reader
• Anne Bronte

Contemporary:

• Bronte biography?
• Margaret Atwood, various.
• The Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler

I plan to read all these book outside on the hammock that I plan to get for my birthday. I also think I should be able to get wifi out there.

In the last week I have finished two books, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I definitely enjoyed the latter more than the former. Although Song of Solomon definitely was an interesting experience. It's really not my kind of book, but I really felt like things were coming together for me with this book. I've been taking this lit class, the American Novel, all semester and I really just have been struggling to understand the novels before the professor explains them to me. But I was able to really comprehend everything this time and I could recognize important passages before Rohman (the professor) explains them. It's just exciting and rewarding to feel like you've actually learned something at the end of the semester.

I just read the Parable of the Sower over the weekend and I really enjoyed it. It's a lot like a Handmaid's Tale in a way. Dystopian and whatnot. The main character "creates" her own religion called Earthseed in which "God is change". Just interesting ideas. And the assignment is going to fun, we have to compare modern news articles to events in the novel. So that's why the sequel is on the list. Actually Butler died recently which is kind of sad. She was kind of rare, a female African-American science fiction writer. Also, Kurt Vonnegut. In case you didn't know.

That is all for now. I am writing. Kind of. It is not easy.