Summer reading recs?

[decollete]

I've decided to finally get around to this whole summer reading thing. For AP Lang & Comp, I have to read The Grapes of Wrath and pick one book off the following list:

Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves
Elizabeth Berg, any novel
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Dan Brown, The DaVinci Code
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Willa Cather, My

Comments

[subarashiine]

....you're just reading ONE off the list?? sheesh, I'm reading like half my list XD XD

Read The Lovely Bones (excellent) and Slaughterhouse Five (rather interesting book).

And wait wait.. are you returning to YWW? if so, which session?

[decollete]

We're only *required* to read one off the list. When school gets back, we have to write a pointless essay on it to prove that we haven't forgotten about theme, symbols, and characterization.

Yeah, I'm coming back for Session 2 Poetry. Which are you doing?

[subarashiine]

Session 2 Fiction :D

[decollete]

Party!

[kireistarlight]

The Glass Menagerie is a good one, for sure. I loved it.

I'll be reading Slaughterhouse Five this summer, along with several others . . . can't remember which at the moment. Vonnegut's stuff is usually funny, so I'm hoping this one follows the same pattern.

[jukeboxriot]

Slaughterhouse Five, Dandelion Wine and The Natural are some of my favorite books ever...just in case you were wondering.

And yay for Session 2! I'm doing Fiction!

[prettypinkdyke]

I'm rather fond of Alice Sebold, and The Lovely Bones is definitely her better book (she only has two, as far as I know). I've heard of the rest, but haven't read them. Apparently John Grisham's A Time to Kill is excellent, and I have to read The Glass Menagerie for summer reading myself.

[decollete]

I think she only has two. One with a blue cover and one with a yellow cover. The one with the yellow cover is nonfiction. (These are the things I recall from volunteering at the library.) I have heard good things about blue cover/The Lovely Bones, so I may read it.

[halfdreaming]

The yellow cover is called Lucky. It's an account of the author's rape when she was in college, and her struggle to get over it. It's...interesting. I've been meaning to read the entire book at some point, but I haven't gotten around to it.

[prettypinkdyke]

Lucky isn't nearly as good as The Lovely Bones. I don't think the author had distanced herself from the incident enough to accurately write about it yet.

[redstar76]

Our list is comprised of Americana books...

The authors are all journalists or African-American experience writers.
oh, and then there is Kurt Vonnegut

Strange mix, no?

[decollete]

It's supposed to be the American Lit year, so I guess that part of it does make sense. But other than that...it seems like the county randomly got every English 11 teacher to suggest a few books and just made a list of them.

That's the only explanation I can come up with.