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Oh, you've got to be kidding me: Stranger's readings, Take Three
late_stranger	#21 Posted on 24-05-2010 23:02
Senior Member Posts: 255 Joined: 23.03.09	290. Julius Caesar- William Shakespeare (My favorite Shakespeare yet. Loved it!) 291. Spider's Voice- I don't remember (My mom got it for me, it was really good) STILL reading Othello, and I'm planning on reading A Winter's Tale and Richard III next. I'm also working through The New Oxford Annotated Bible (slow going, though), and I have a huge list of books I want to read over the summer. The required books are A Thousand Splendid Suns and Candide, and then 3 others from the list. So I'll be reading more as soon as school ends. -stranger (Yes, I'm the same stranger every time) I'm being a dork and I choose not to explain myself -Hank Green


late_stranger	#22 Posted on 06-06-2010 16:28
Senior Member Posts: 255 Joined: 23.03.09	292. Othello The Moor of Venice - William Shakespeare (It was good. Not my favorite, but really good. Iago was so evil. It was amazing. It really bugged me, though, that at the end, after Othello killed Desdemona, that everyone stopped using his name and started calling him "The Moor". He didn't stop being Othello when he killed someone. Racist Venetians) 293. Without You - Anthony Rapp (He wrote a memoir about how his mom was dying of cancer at the same time he was in RENT. It was really sad, but really cathartic. Also, the one time a stage manager had dialogue,she said exactly what I would have said in the situation. It was pretty funny.) So, LIBRARY BOOK SALES ROCK!!! I got 11 books, and with the books my mom and dad got (probably another 10 or 11 between them, they cost $39. W00t. Love it. -stranger (Yes, I'm the same stranger every time) I'm being a dork and I choose not to explain myself -Hank Green


late_stranger	#23 Posted on 09-06-2010 01:04
Senior Member Posts: 255 Joined: 23.03.09	294. Let It Snow - John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle (This is the type of book that no one expects me to like and I love it. It was adorable, and had I been more focesed it would have been really fun to figure how the stories would come together before they did.) Yay for summer and being able to read! -stranger (Yes, I'm the same stranger every time) I'm being a dork and I choose not to explain myself -Hank Green


Annieca	#24 Posted on 09-06-2010 21:44
Fusioneer Posts: 1311 Joined: 20.03.09	Don't you love summer because you can spend the entire summer reading? Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.


late_stranger	#25 Posted on 02-07-2010 03:35
Senior Member Posts: 255 Joined: 23.03.09	Pretty much. The only issue with having so much time is that I'm in the middle of SIXdifferent books. And I've started and finished ~~two~~ ~~three~~ ~~four~~ five other books in between starting the third of those five and now. Hehe... So, completed: 295. The Anatomy of Wings - Karen Foxlee (it was OK. Not something I'd read again. Really sad, but I didn't like the ending. It just sort of petered out.) 296. Candide - Voltaire (it confused me. Mostly because it was assigned as summer reading for my history class. And it was weird. And too many people died but not really. Very strange. But good.) 297. Uppity Women of Shakespearean Times - Vicki Leon (it was kind of boring. My mom gave it to me, and it didn't require a lot of thought or commitment. So I read it) 298. Stones Into Schools - Greg Mortenson and whoever actually wrote it (It was excellent. Greg Mortenson and his team inspire me. They build secular schools in northern Pakistan and Afganistan, on the precondition that any girl who wants to attend be allowed to. They also set up vocational centers for women and occasionally provide water systems (only in emergencies - earthquakes etc). You guys should all read this and Three Cups of Tea.) 299. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseni (This book made me have a minor existential crisis. It had a happy ending, I guess, but still... it was really sad and it made me cry. It's required summer reading for 10th grade. I don't understand why EVERY SINGLE required reading book from fifth grade forward HAS to be depressing. WHY? The last time I had a happy required reading book was fourth grade, with the exception of The Old Man and the Sea (not standard curriculum) and A Midsummer's Night Dream (also not standard curriculum). Grr.) 300. Bee Season - IDK (I read this awhile ago and it almost made me cry with disappointment. I read the whole book waiting for the ending (in a good way), and then it stopped without ending the story and I was SO MAD) I'm also in the middle of reading Les Miserables, poemcrazy, The History of God, The Bible, Richard III, and The Age of Innocence. This is what happens with too much time. And I'm rereading Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. And I really need to read A Winter's Tale before July 19th. sigh Better get cracking. Edited by late_stranger on 02-07-2010 03:37 -stranger (Yes, I'm the same stranger every time) I'm being a dork and I choose not to explain myself -Hank Green

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