Books that need to be read!

Ok, I read Nervous Conditions for a Colonial Lit class in college my senior year and I loved it, it was beautifully written and heart wrenching in so many ways. Its the sad but sometimes funny story of a young girl who is struggling to understand herself and her society in rapidly changing colonial Rhodesia in the late 1960's and 1970's. I've now discovered that a sequel exists titled, The Book of Not and I must get my hands on it.

At somepoint in high school, the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane caught my attention and has kept me subconciously keeping one ear to the ground waiting for each forthcoming book and finally I hear today of A Wizard of Mars to come out this year and I am thrilled!

I would also like to finish a few books that I began last year and still have not finished. For instance I am so close to the end of Gulliver's Travels that it is pathetic that I haven't just finished it already! It is such an hillarious work of social and political satire that kept me in stitches for so much of it and I am sad that I put it down and got distracted by other matters. I read the Count of Monte Christo prior to Gulliver's Travels and thoroughly enjoyed it, it was so much better than the movie and I am actually disappointed by how much Hollywood felt the need to change the plot. The endings are so different, the movie should probably not even be touted as based on the book.

I also would like to finish A Curse as Dark as Gold, an excellent book, and one which I had the pleasure of buying directly from the author, Elizabeth C. Bunce and had it signed by her when she and her editor, Cheryl Klein of Arthur A. Levine Books, came to my local library fundraisor. I have no excuse for not finishing this book beyond I had to get a job and I've been trying to write my own.

I should also try to finish reading The Lord of the Rings, it is simply rediculous that I have never finished them considering I have reread the Harry Potters at least twice each and more for the older ones and I've read The Chronicles of Narnia at least seven times through, I reread The Last Battle over Christmas. I suppose my problem is that I am a chronic rereader. I've read Beauty, Spindle's End, Jane Eyre, Tiger Burning Bright, Ella Enchanted and P&P and several others, over and over again whenever I am bored, depressed or needing some uplifting inspiration. I should probably turn to my Bible just as often but I do not, which I think seemed to be the theme of the lessons at Church today.