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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

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[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

I was the bookish sister, name eluding me for the moment.

Mary. :D Just watched the mini-series again on Saturday. The only thing I don't like about some lists are that I've read multiple books by the same author instead of a really wide range of books.

And the book version of All Quiet on the Western Front is actually pretty good. I had a book club in high school and we did like three or four months in a row with war books, Catch-22, All Quiet, and War of the Rats about the siege of Stalingrad (very very good book, Enemy at the Gates didn't do it justice).

Do you get summer reading for school?

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Summer reading, heh. Yep, it exists here.

III- Selections from Edith Hamilton's Mythology, The Odyssey, and 2 free choices (I read Robert Graves' I, Claudius, and Angela's Ashes.
IV- Deus Lo Volt! (Worst. Book. I've. Read. In. Quite. A. Long. Time.), The Aeneid, and Christianity on Trial.
V- Moby Dick and Founding Brothers.

It's actually worthwhile to mention that I go to a private school that places emphasis (at least freshman and sophmore year) on the Classics. They seriously enjoy European History and all that seems to go with it.