On Books and Bookworms
So, this seems to be a semester of group projects. Our finals for my English 30 (English for the Professions) class is a class project, wherein we had to come up with a socially-relevant activity that would allow us to exercise our letter-writing skills and what-not (which, c'mon, is practically any activity you can think of). Anyway, my class decided to renovate a public elementary school library, and donate books as well.
This morning, I was going through all my books, looking for elementary-level reading material that I could donate. Unfortunately, aside from all our old textbooks, I found that I wouldn't be giving away much. Aside from my huge-ass collection of Animorphs and Baby Sitters Club books, everything else seemed to jump from basic learning-to-read books to lengthy novels.
Then I realized, well, I did finish my first full-length novel in fourth grade (Tom Clancy's Lost World), so yeah, I probably did skip the whole adolescent literature phase. Ooops. I used to devour books when I was younger. I remember, I'd borrow two books during recess, and the very next day, I'd return them and borrow two more books. I think I had ten library cards in one of my years in elementary. At some point, I ran out of books to borrow. Haha!
I miss reading :( I never seem to have time for it nowadays. I have all these books that are just waiting for me to pick them up, but I just don't have the time. Le sigh :(
Ah well. One week to go, and this semester will finally be over. Whoooo! And then its nine units to go, and then... FREEDOM! :D
This morning, I was going through all my books, looking for elementary-level reading material that I could donate. Unfortunately, aside from all our old textbooks, I found that I wouldn't be giving away much. Aside from my huge-ass collection of Animorphs and Baby Sitters Club books, everything else seemed to jump from basic learning-to-read books to lengthy novels.
Then I realized, well, I did finish my first full-length novel in fourth grade (Tom Clancy's Lost World), so yeah, I probably did skip the whole adolescent literature phase. Ooops. I used to devour books when I was younger. I remember, I'd borrow two books during recess, and the very next day, I'd return them and borrow two more books. I think I had ten library cards in one of my years in elementary. At some point, I ran out of books to borrow. Haha!
I miss reading :( I never seem to have time for it nowadays. I have all these books that are just waiting for me to pick them up, but I just don't have the time. Le sigh :(
Ah well. One week to go, and this semester will finally be over. Whoooo! And then its nine units to go, and then... FREEDOM! :D