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| Master Fan   Joined: Apr 2000
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| I just bought my books for this semester (and I had to order 3 online so this isn't all of them):  __________________ ♥ icon says it all ♥ | |||
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| Passionate Fan   | Right now I'm reading The Virginian by Owen Wister. It's actually not a bad book. I'm reading it for my Literature from 1900-present class and we're studying adventure literature of the time. Other than simply taking up time, it's a fairly easy read. I like that change from books that I have to fight through. I took 1600-1800 literature last semester and that was tough so this semester is already going better. __________________ Come stop by the Books Board for a visit. 148.94 million square kilometers on the face of the Earth, and I plan on walking every single one of them! Avatar by Wildfire Girl | |||
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| Absolute Fan  | I finally got "The Condor's Shadow" by David S. Wilcove (this one is for my Wildlife Science class). My mom had to get a copy of it from the library at first so I could do my homework over the weekend but today [thankfully] they had the copy my mom ordered a week ago from Barnes & Noble. For my Rhetoric Eng. class we have to read "Nickle & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Erenreich. Personally, I hate this book but I'm forcing myself to read it (don't want to fail in college at the beginning of the year!) __________________  The Secret Life of the American Teenager Quote of the Week: Ricky: I'd like to know where you are and what's going on if you don't mind. Amy: Maybe I do mind. | |||
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| Extreme Fan  Joined: Jun 2007
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| Anna - ive read the curious incident of the dog in the night time, if im remembering the same book its good! im currently reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens for my Lit class __________________ icon credit - Jade Blood | |||
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| Passionate Fan  Joined: Mar 2006
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 __________________ Icons&Fanart Icon: Stacy Jasper & Alice You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope. | |||
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| Passionate Fan | I'm reading a Hemingway book next for one of my classes. I've already read two from him and I actually like Hemingway so I don't have a problem with it. I'm actually looking forward to it. I've been reading King Lear for the past three weeks because our professor is being so analytical about it. I'm ready to be done with that. __________________ Come stop by the Books Board for a visit. 148.94 million square kilometers on the face of the Earth, and I plan on walking every single one of them! Avatar by Wildfire Girl | |||
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| Extreme Fan  Joined: Sep 2001
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| So the semester is almost half over, and so far I've been surviving (more or less) my lit classes. For my fiction class we've read Candide, Pride and Prejudice, and right now we're working on Heart of Darkness. Candide was difficult to read (needed large quantities of caffiene) but interesting to discuss. I love Pride and Prejudice, so I love really digging into that one. Heart of Darkness is a little more difficult. I have to get caught up on the reading and then maybe the discussion will go a bit better. My other class is Great Narrative Works. So far we've read The Odyssey and Green Darkness. Both of them were rather long, but good. I just wonder why we didn't use the prose translation in high school. It was so much easier to read than the verse. Right now we're reading Life of Pi. I'm really enjoying that. It's an easy read and it's interesting, too. The Angel- Glad to know someone's in the reading boat with me. I've already had one friend tell me that everytime he sees me I always have a book with me. Danielle341 & candygurl1718- I've read curious incident before too. I really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to reading it again. __________________ *~Anna~* "I know things that would curdle your blood, including a formula that literally curdles blood!" -Hodgins Avatar from CourtyJean at iconator.com | |||
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| Passionate Fan | I just started reading The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for my English literature course. I think I'm reading The Awakening by Kate Chopin in the other class but I'm not certain because I just finished up Benito Cerino by Herman Melville so I don't have to start my new book until tomorrow. Angel1432~ I know exactly what you mean. I go up to my best friend's room quite often to watch TV and hang out and eat dinner and 90% of the time I'll whip out a book and start reading and she'll yell at me and tell me her room is a no-homework zone when the TV is on. Eventually I can sneak some pages though, so it works out ok, but it is very funny. __________________ Come stop by the Books Board for a visit. 148.94 million square kilometers on the face of the Earth, and I plan on walking every single one of them! Avatar by Wildfire Girl | |||
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| #159 | |||
| Obsessed Fan  Joined: May 2005
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| I'm an English major in college (with a Creative Writing concentration in fiction and television), but they want me to take a bunch of required literature courses, so here's what I'm taking this semester (starting January 14th) and what books I'll be reading. English 1B: Principles of Composition 2 Common Culture by Petracca (5th edition) English 17A: Beowulf to Roman Times Norton Anthology of English Lit Volume 1 by Greenblatt (8th edition) Gulliver's Travels by Swift English 17B: Roman Times - Present Norton Anthology of English Lit Volume 2 by Greenblatt (8th edition) Jane Eyre by Bronte __________________ VOTE FOR DOLLHOUSE ~ SHOW ELIZA SOME LOVE Buffy/Angel, Tru/Jack, Phil/Keely & Lucas/Gail 4 ever![/color] | |||
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| Passionate Fan  Joined: Jan 2007
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 Last year I had to do Pride and Prejudice, we got to to on a school trip to watch the film at the cinema.  __________________ I've always been a dreamer, I've had my head among the clouds, icon | |||
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| Absolute Fan | Okay people it's that time of year again. A new school year/semester is here and I'm sure you all have some books that have been assigned for required reading. If so what books will you be reading this year? Here's a list of mine: Adrift- Callahan, Steven Deep Survival- Gonzales, Laurence Between a Rock and a Hard Place- Ralson, Aron Alive- Read, Piers Paul Into the Wild- Krakauer, John (<--- this one I have read over 5 times all ready and seen the Shawn Penn movie numerous times as well. Definately one of my faves so it will be cool how we use it in class). These books are for my english class in which we are reading on human survival stories (whether they lived is something I'm looking forward to finding out because not all people live). __________________ The Secret Life of the American Teenager Quote of the Week: Ricky: I'd like to know where you are and what's going on if you don't mind. Amy: Maybe I do mind. | |||
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| #162 | |||
| Extreme Fan  Joined: Sep 2008
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| Hm...we're doing tragedy now, so we just finished Antigone by Sophokles...And I actually liked it. I don't know what we have next, though. __________________ Doris~Huddy Queen Of Humour Sometimes you just have to trust people~Thirteen off to Stuttgart for the week, will be back on Friday, 5thHouse♥Cuddy and Foreman♥Thirteen | |||
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| Passionate Fan | I'm in a Middle English literature class and an American Fiction from 1800-1900 class. They're both crazy, I took them on the same day, I may be out of my mind. For my Middle English class I'm reading a lot of lyrics and poems and things like that but I'm also reading Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Cleanness, Croxton Play of the Sacrament and Richard Coer de Lion. Form my American Fiction class I just finished (or will finish today) The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. I also have to read: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass Daisy Miller by Henry James Benito Cereno by Herman Melville. I'm lucky though, I've already read The Red Badge of Courage and Benito Cereno as well as parts of Fredrick Douglass's narrative. __________________ Come stop by the Books Board for a visit. 148.94 million square kilometers on the face of the Earth, and I plan on walking every single one of them! Avatar by Wildfire Girl | |||
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| #164 | |||
| Loyal Fan  Joined: Jan 2004
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| I have to read a book with one of the characters (or people if it's a true story) needing psychological help for my clinical psychology class. We have to read the book and diagnose the character/person needing help, describing in a big in-depth paper about what would have happened had they not gotten help sooner, why they need it, etc. For that paper, I started reading The Bell Jar today. __________________ avatar/icon made by: JoAFreak Proud Angsty Artist, Auror, Choker, Comrade, Pillow Pal and supporter of everything related to Jim & Pam, Lee Pace, and Luke & Lorelai Proud Keeper of the couples: Hawkeye Pierce & Margaret Houlihan and BJ & Peg Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H | |||
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