Jan 7 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Jan 15 - How to be Useful by Megan Hustad
Jan 22 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz*
Jan 23 - Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Jan 27 - How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
Jan 29 - How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Feb 4 - The Giver by Lois Lowry
Feb 8 - Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman*
Feb 12 ( Read more... )

because this is totally what I should be doing right now...

- Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
x American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- King of the Pygmies by Jonathan Scott Fuqua
- Thirsty by M. T. Anderson
x The Pillowman by Martin McDonough
- The Violent Bear it Away by ( Read more... )

well, the summer has technically started for me, so here we go:

( the list )

what we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as ‘unread’ by LibraryThing’s users. as in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did ( Read more... )

( I'll spare you all the scrolling )

tis about time to start my to-do list for this summer. right then, chaps.

- finish a new reading list:
    x for whom the bell tolls by ernest hemingway
    . a farewell to arms by ernest hemingway
    x go ask alice by an anonymous author
    x thumbsucker by walter kirn
    o the fortress of solitude by jonathan lethem
    x the da vinci code by dan ( Read more... )

here's to making the break worthwhile!

things to do final end-of-break checklist [supposing anyone cares but me]...

x finish a new reading list:
    x Macbeth by Shakespeare
    x The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    x Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
    x The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz
    x Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
    x Jeremy ( Read more... )