A Summer for Reading

This has been a summer of reading. I work at Mail Services on Brigham Young University campus. And I often feel like this.

Okay, so when a person (or rather an English Major) sits at their job, often having 4 or 5 hours of downtime added up by the end of the day, what are they supposed to do? The answer: ding ding ding! read. And that's what I've been doing. So now that I've read 25 works this summer, ranging from plays, novels, and series I thought I'd share my thoughts on them with you. So whether you'd like to treat this experiment as a book review hub or rather a book club of sorts where you can read along with what I've been reading, feel free to join in. I'll be posting a review of a new book once a week. I may occasionally interrupt with an essay to read and then a writing exercise for writing enthusiasts but in general, you can expect a book a week. It will go roughly in this order since the top of the list holds my most recent reads.

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Love's Labours Lost by William Shakespeare
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Giver by Louis Lowry
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The High King (Chronicles of Prydain #5) by Lloyd Alexander
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Taran Wanderer (Chronicles of Prydain #4) by Lloyd Alexander
The Castle of Llyr (Chronicles of Prydain #3) by Lloyd Alexander
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Black Cauldron (Chronicles of Prydain #2) by Lloyd Alexander
The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain #1) by Lloyd Alexander

-Natalie Cherie