Random things...

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One of the more obvious downsides to my riding is the serious pain that's been plaging me. Or to be more accurate, re-occuring. I'll admit, I'm out of shape. However, that doesn't make my muscles ache any less. I swear, I need to look into something other than Advil for pain.

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For the record, III=Freshman Year, IV=Sophmore, V=Junior (my current) year of High School. If it's bold, I've read it.

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice Both read and performed it. I was the bookish sister, name eluding me for the moment.
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop My name may be Willa, but I haven't touched her books.
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales IV. I love it, one of my favorite classes was when we were discussing one of the tales. 8.15 on a Saturday and the Miller's Tale are a combination not to be forgotten.
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard I've seen the Monty Python Gumby sketch...
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening We're attacking her short stories later on this year.
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno IV. I have insisted my 13 year old sister read it. She's attempting pretty well.
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities III. *groan*
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby V. Such a good book.
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust IV. Read only the first act/part/whatever. My teacher swears that no one reads the second half. Loved what we read though.
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies One of my favorite books of all time.
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter V. Actually, we read short stories. But close enough.
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms We'll be doing Snows of Kilimanjaro later this year.
Homer - The Iliad III. It was an abridged version in Edith Hamilton's Mythology, but still good.
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House IV
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw Sort of freaked me out at times.
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick V
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible We'll also be tackling Death of A Salesman next.
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front Seen the film version. was not particularly fond of it.
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet V
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth IV
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream III
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet III
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone V
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex V
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons IV
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn V
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son

I've got less than a month of school left. Feels sort of weird. Having spring here is nice though, it really is. I don't need to bundle up in a million layers.

I'm rather happy right now. Not much school work to be done, and my worst grade on my advisories was a 79, so I need to boost it 5 points, and a few otehrs 3 or 4 is I want to make Dean's List.

I have a summer job, which makes me happy.

Very happy.

For some reason, I don't feel like ranting much right now. So I'm going to shut up and get lost. :D