About Me

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My BookLists

• To-Read (4)
  • The Call of the Wild
    by London, Jack
  • A Damsel in Distress
    by Wodehouse, P. G.
  • Vanity Fair
    by Thackeray, William Makepeace
  • War and Peace
    by Tolstoy, Leo

Browse BookLists

• Pygmalion 30% complete
• The Importance of Being Earnest finished
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court finished
• The Picture of Dorian Gray finished
• The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories finished
• The Gem Collector finished
• Romeo and Juliet finished
• Three Men and a Maid finished
• A Room with a View finished
• She finished
• Ethan Frome finished
• Wikipedia Tour: Wine 101 finished
• The Time Machine finished

Question of the Week - Back to School Books

I remember reading To Kill a Mockingbird (sophomore), The Scarlet Letter (junior), and Huckleberry Finn (senior). I didn't really like The Scarlet Letter, but I liked the other two and was surprised to see they are listed as some of the more protested books for high schools (due to racial language, among other things, I believe). We also read three Shakespeare plays: Romeo & Juliet (freshman), Julius Ceasar (junior), and Macbeth (senior). It took me the entire first Act of each of them to get into Shakespeare's rhythm enough to understand what was going on, but after that they were all great.

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