For the love of lit....

Ahh.........

Okay so the spring semester is over. Finally. I lived to tell the story. Tragically, for the past 4 days, I have been in the throes of some type of post-spring semester stomach issues. That being said, I've been stuck at Seth's house able to do little more than grunt, and and click the television remote control. Yowza.

Well, I thought to myself, at least do something constructive today. Okay. Summer book list? Sure why not. You see, Mistique and I have this thing where we list the books we will (hopefully) read over the summer. It is a practice not wasted on those who...have social lives. That being said, here is my (premature) book list for the summer of 2010:

1. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte - Now I know what you're thinking. "Gene! Its so sad, its so depressing! Why would you want to read it over the summer and be so sad!" Cause I bought it, that's why.

2. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen
3. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen - Keep being told that this is a book I should read because Austen's women don't take shit lying down, and neither do I.
4. "Eragon" series by Christopher Paolini - Now I started Eragon, but it was during the semester, and I had to stop reading it. I've been threatened within an inch of my life to read these books, and dadgumit, I'm gonna read 'em! (sorry for that)
5. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath - She killed herself. By sticking her head in the oven. 'Nuff said.
6. "The Hobbitt" by J.R.R. Tolkein - This is one of those books that I read every year, because it truly one of my favorites. True, Tolkein may take 65 pages to describe a blade of grass, but in that 65 pages, I'm in that meadow looking at that grass, not sitting in my apartment with a leaky ceiling.
7. "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Makes me cry every time I read it.
8. "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster - Honestly, this book speaks to me more now as an adult, than it did when I was a kid. I lent out my old dusty copy I'd had since I was about 12, and had to buy a new one a few years ago.
9. "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe" - Is there something wrong with me because this man is my favorite author of ALL time?
10. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho - I love allegory. In all it's sticky, sweet, goodness....

Like I said, this list is early, and it is subject to change. This is for the lovers of lit everywhere. Happy reading!