It's Summer, That Means Reading!
First the Big News: I got a job!
I have set the bar for myself: this summer I must raise $5000 dollars. It breaks down like this:
$100 - Mom
$400 - Dad
$3000 - Room and Board
$600 - Little Gifts (if I take Twins)
$500 - extra money for the school year
$100 - Money to pay DZ stuff that pops up
I enjoy rounding up and I figure to get a cushion would be good as well, so $5000. I figure if I work 40 hours a week at about $10 dollars an hour for 13 thirteen weeks, I can do it. So this sounded like a pipe dream. No job was ever going to pay me that much.
Then I set out this morning to find a job. First store I walked into: The Icing. Next thing I walk out with? An Assiant Manager job, 40 hours a week, about $10 an hour maybe more. And she is willing to let me work weekends through out the school year and have me work breaks. If I work some weekends, that means I don't need all of the $5000 right now. I still want to get it, cause I like to hit my goals. But now I striving for my goal for fun and I'm not stressed out.
Second News: Summer Class
Not as fun as the work (I like to work, I just hate getting up to go to work). Anyways, I've decided to take my last two Spanishs at NOVA. All I have to do is get an override, but right now, I'm feeling pretty lucky. Also, I know my AST friend Lauren will be in the class (I believe...she lives in Centerville...I think Loudoun is the closest campus). Anyways, not exciting just news.
Now...
SUMMER READING!!!!!
In my haste to organize my room, I started making lists of books I own. I keep track of them at http://bibliophil.org/default.php . Not the most high tech. site but a very helpful one. Anyways, while listing my books that I owned, I saw that I owned over 125 books (and we're talking really over cause I didn't count my Baby-sitters Club, Sweet Valleys, etc that I have). However, out of all these books, I have about 60 or so that I have never read. So this summer is me trying to read as many of my books as possible between The Icing, Spanish, and free movies with Kyle (tee hee).
Anyways, I doubt anyone cares about what I read or don't read or what I think about what I read. Nor do I think a lot of people on my Friends List would even like my taste in reading (I doubt Mark is dying to read the Notebook). But I like to write reviews of things and if I want to do it for a living, might as well as pratice now!
A Great and Terrible Beauty By Bray, Libba
Abarat By Clive Barker
Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War By Clive Barker
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl By Frank, Anne (Yes, I have never read this)
Artemis Fowl By Colfer, Eoin (I tried but got distracted by finals and such)
Autobiography of a Face By Grealy, Lucy (Read Truth & Beauty and wanted to see the other side)
Bad Seed By William March (I'm not sure how I ended up with this book...)
Blindness By Saramago, José (School Book I never read...)
Bonesetter's Daughter By Tan, Amy (One of my two Amy Tans for the summer)
Clockwork Orange By Burgess, Anthony
Confessions of Max Tivoli By Greer, Andrew Sean
Devil in the White City By Larson, Erik
Devil Wears Prada By Weisberger, Lauren (Must read before I see the movie)
Faces in the Water By Frame, Janet (another that was for a class)
Fahrenheit 451 By Bradbury, Ray (stolen from David...)
Falcondance By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (third book in Atwater's series)
Fight Club By Chuck Palahniuk
Good Earth By Buck, Pearl S. (An Oprah's book club)
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter By McCullers, Carson (Oprah again)
House of Sand and Fog By Dubus III, Andre (Oprah)
Into the Land of the Unicorns By Coville, Bruce (First in a series of two)
Joy Luck Club By Tan, Amy (second amy tan)
Life of Pi By Martel, Yann
Little Friend By Tartt, Donna
Losing Gemma By Gardner, Katy
Memoirs of a Geisha By Golden, Arthur S.
Mere Christianity By Lewis, C. S.
Middlesex By Eugenides, Jeffrey
Mists of Avalon By Bradley, Marion Zimmer (Been wanting to read this for years)
Monkey By Wu, Ch'Eng-En (School novel again LOL)
Mystic River By Lehane, Dennis
Notebook By Sparks, Nicholas
Phantom Tollbooth By Juster, Norton
Photograph By Lively, Penelope
Please Don't Kill the Freshman By Trope, Zoe (she has an LJ I believe)
Prep By Curtis Sittenfeld
Probable Future By Hoffman, Alice
Prozac Nation By Wurtzel, Elizabeth
Reading Lolita in Tehran By Nafisi, Azar (I gave a book report based on the first 20 pages)
Red Tent By Diamant, Anita
Scarlet Letter By Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Shadowmancer By Taylor, G. P.
Sickened By Gregory, Julie
Snakecharm By Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia (Second in Atwater's series)
Stick Figure By Gottlieb, Lori
Teach Me By R.A. Nelson
The Truth About Forever By Sarah Dessen
Their Eyes Were Watching God By Hurston, Zora Neale
There and Back Again : An Actor's Tale By Astin, Sean
Time Traveler's Wife By Niffenegger, Audrey
Song Of The Wanderer By Coville, Bruce (Second Unicorn book)
We Were the Mulvaneys By Oates, Joyce Carol (Oprah)
When Rabbit Howls By Truddi Chase
Wrinkle in Time By L'Engle, Madeleine
Of course, we all know I can't stick to this. The whole point of the list is not to buy anymore books until I read the ones I have...well I didn't buy anymore books. But I go to this fab place called a libery and checked out books. So fun goal, read all these books before their due date: May 31st.
The Perfect Distance
Beauty
Girl 15, charming but insane
The Used-to-be IT girl
Pop Princess
Peaches
The Poisonwood Bible (my second attempt!)
Plus I must finsh up the two I'm currently reading: The Notebook Girls and the Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
O well!
DZ Love and Mine!
Michelle
KM 535
I have set the bar for myself: this summer I must raise $5000 dollars. It breaks down like this:
$100 - Mom
$400 - Dad
$3000 - Room and Board
$600 - Little Gifts (if I take Twins)
$500 - extra money for the school year
$100 - Money to pay DZ stuff that pops up
I enjoy rounding up and I figure to get a cushion would be good as well, so $5000. I figure if I work 40 hours a week at about $10 dollars an hour for 13 thirteen weeks, I can do it. So this sounded like a pipe dream. No job was ever going to pay me that much.
Then I set out this morning to find a job. First store I walked into: The Icing. Next thing I walk out with? An Assiant Manager job, 40 hours a week, about $10 an hour maybe more. And she is willing to let me work weekends through out the school year and have me work breaks. If I work some weekends, that means I don't need all of the $5000 right now. I still want to get it, cause I like to hit my goals. But now I striving for my goal for fun and I'm not stressed out.
Second News: Summer Class
Not as fun as the work (I like to work, I just hate getting up to go to work). Anyways, I've decided to take my last two Spanishs at NOVA. All I have to do is get an override, but right now, I'm feeling pretty lucky. Also, I know my AST friend Lauren will be in the class (I believe...she lives in Centerville...I think Loudoun is the closest campus). Anyways, not exciting just news.
Now...
SUMMER READING!!!!!
In my haste to organize my room, I started making lists of books I own. I keep track of them at http://bibliophil.org/default.php . Not the most high tech. site but a very helpful one. Anyways, while listing my books that I owned, I saw that I owned over 125 books (and we're talking really over cause I didn't count my Baby-sitters Club, Sweet Valleys, etc that I have). However, out of all these books, I have about 60 or so that I have never read. So this summer is me trying to read as many of my books as possible between The Icing, Spanish, and free movies with Kyle (tee hee).
Anyways, I doubt anyone cares about what I read or don't read or what I think about what I read. Nor do I think a lot of people on my Friends List would even like my taste in reading (I doubt Mark is dying to read the Notebook). But I like to write reviews of things and if I want to do it for a living, might as well as pratice now!
A Great and Terrible Beauty By Bray, Libba
Abarat By Clive Barker
Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War By Clive Barker
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl By Frank, Anne (Yes, I have never read this)
Artemis Fowl By Colfer, Eoin (I tried but got distracted by finals and such)
Autobiography of a Face By Grealy, Lucy (Read Truth & Beauty and wanted to see the other side)
Bad Seed By William March (I'm not sure how I ended up with this book...)
Blindness By Saramago, José (School Book I never read...)
Bonesetter's Daughter By Tan, Amy (One of my two Amy Tans for the summer)
Clockwork Orange By Burgess, Anthony
Confessions of Max Tivoli By Greer, Andrew Sean
Devil in the White City By Larson, Erik
Devil Wears Prada By Weisberger, Lauren (Must read before I see the movie)
Faces in the Water By Frame, Janet (another that was for a class)
Fahrenheit 451 By Bradbury, Ray (stolen from David...)
Falcondance By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (third book in Atwater's series)
Fight Club By Chuck Palahniuk
Good Earth By Buck, Pearl S. (An Oprah's book club)
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter By McCullers, Carson (Oprah again)
House of Sand and Fog By Dubus III, Andre (Oprah)
Into the Land of the Unicorns By Coville, Bruce (First in a series of two)
Joy Luck Club By Tan, Amy (second amy tan)
Life of Pi By Martel, Yann
Little Friend By Tartt, Donna
Losing Gemma By Gardner, Katy
Memoirs of a Geisha By Golden, Arthur S.
Mere Christianity By Lewis, C. S.
Middlesex By Eugenides, Jeffrey
Mists of Avalon By Bradley, Marion Zimmer (Been wanting to read this for years)
Monkey By Wu, Ch'Eng-En (School novel again LOL)
Mystic River By Lehane, Dennis
Notebook By Sparks, Nicholas
Phantom Tollbooth By Juster, Norton
Photograph By Lively, Penelope
Please Don't Kill the Freshman By Trope, Zoe (she has an LJ I believe)
Prep By Curtis Sittenfeld
Probable Future By Hoffman, Alice
Prozac Nation By Wurtzel, Elizabeth
Reading Lolita in Tehran By Nafisi, Azar (I gave a book report based on the first 20 pages)
Red Tent By Diamant, Anita
Scarlet Letter By Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Shadowmancer By Taylor, G. P.
Sickened By Gregory, Julie
Snakecharm By Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia (Second in Atwater's series)
Stick Figure By Gottlieb, Lori
Teach Me By R.A. Nelson
The Truth About Forever By Sarah Dessen
Their Eyes Were Watching God By Hurston, Zora Neale
There and Back Again : An Actor's Tale By Astin, Sean
Time Traveler's Wife By Niffenegger, Audrey
Song Of The Wanderer By Coville, Bruce (Second Unicorn book)
We Were the Mulvaneys By Oates, Joyce Carol (Oprah)
When Rabbit Howls By Truddi Chase
Wrinkle in Time By L'Engle, Madeleine
Of course, we all know I can't stick to this. The whole point of the list is not to buy anymore books until I read the ones I have...well I didn't buy anymore books. But I go to this fab place called a libery and checked out books. So fun goal, read all these books before their due date: May 31st.
The Perfect Distance
Beauty
Girl 15, charming but insane
The Used-to-be IT girl
Pop Princess
Peaches
The Poisonwood Bible (my second attempt!)
Plus I must finsh up the two I'm currently reading: The Notebook Girls and the Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
O well!
DZ Love and Mine!
Michelle
KM 535