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Post by nymphadora on Jun 11, 2008 20:10:26 GMT -5
I just got my list today. We have to pick one environmental book from a list given and one from our grade's list. The environmental ones are: Blueback Feed Ishmael Life as we knew it Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life braving home: dispatches from the underwater town, the laba-side inn, and other extreme locales coal: a human history cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world grayson an inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it the path: a one-mile walk through the universe six degrees: our future on a hotter planet
Geesh, why are all the titles so long?!
So has anyone read any of these or heard about them? I think I might read Braving Home - it's about a guy who travels around a lot.
Feel free to post your own summer reading here, though I'm sure you'd all rather forget it. DX
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Post by Tera253 on Jun 12, 2008 2:43:34 GMT -5
I haven't heard of any of them... thank goodness I never had summer reading lists. ~Toph~
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Post by concreteangel on Jun 12, 2008 12:08:26 GMT -5
I have to read things like:
Emma
Wuthering Heights
and Jane Eyre
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Post by nymphadora on Jun 12, 2008 15:14:26 GMT -5
Our required ones are never as good as the optional ones. This is the first year we get a choice for the required. I've had to read (starting with entering 6th grade): The Year of Impossible Goodbyes Tom Sawyer Stargirl Funny in Farsi The Forbidden City
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Post by West on Jun 12, 2008 15:20:55 GMT -5
My school was really nice this summer.
This year they said that they want us to have fun this summer, and said that we didn't have to read anything if we don't want to. Although, they gave us a reading list, the books you read are sort of for 'extra credit'. Each department chose a series of books that goes along with their subjects. So, I think that I will be reading one from each of the departments. These are the books that I forsee myself reading: Memiors of a Geisha (which I have alreay started to read) The Hot Zone Flags of Our Fathers La Casa en Mango Street A Beautiful Mind She Said Yes (this one I'm debating)
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Post by night on Jun 12, 2008 15:23:28 GMT -5
I have to read Jude the Obscure for English, and choose another for independent reading. Not bad at all, seeing as I read a lot during the summer.
...I heard Jude the Obscure was fail though. D:
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Post by West on Jun 12, 2008 16:01:30 GMT -5
One year I had to read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Now that was phail! It was narrated by an autistic boy, so the whole story was weird.
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Post by nymphadora on Jun 12, 2008 16:21:28 GMT -5
I read that one year. I don't like dogs and I liked how in the first chapter it got stabbed by a fork muahaha - but the rest was boring and confusing.
I read She Said Yes in like 7th grade. I've always been interested in Columbine and it was pretty good. Some parts were depressing, but overall I liked it.
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Post by username on Jun 12, 2008 21:25:13 GMT -5
You know she didn't actually say yes? The whole exchange never happened, she just accidently shouted out and one of the gunmen shot her.
I personally liked "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime," it wasn't great, but I thought it was ok.
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Post by Chibi Chan-o on Jun 12, 2008 21:40:28 GMT -5
I just got my list today. We have to pick one environmental book from a list given and one from our grade's list. The environmental ones are: Blueback Feed Ishmael Life as we knew it Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life braving home: dispatches from the underwater town, the laba-side inn, and other extreme locales coal: a human history cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world grayson an inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it the path: a one-mile walk through the universe six degrees: our future on a hotter planet Geesh, why are all the titles so long?! So has anyone read any of these or heard about them? I think I might read Braving Home - it's about a guy who travels around a lot. Feel free to post your own summer reading here, though I'm sure you'd all rather forget it. DX You have to read environmental books for an assignment? I'd hate to be you. Don't touch an Inconveneint Truth, or just watch the movie (which isn't recommended either). As for me, I don't have any summer reading I have to do.
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Post by nymphadora on Jun 12, 2008 21:49:32 GMT -5
You know she didn't actually say yes? The whole exchange never happened, she just accidently shouted out and one of the gunmen shot her. Where'd you see that? I'd be mad if that whole thing was made up. It's like the whole point (obviously - it's the title) and ...... I don't know it'd just bother me.
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Post by Horyo on Jun 13, 2008 0:00:16 GMT -5
I have to read things like: Emma Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights<3 Read the Sun also Rises, or Bless me Ultima. Or even the Bean Trees.
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Post by Orangey on Jun 13, 2008 0:22:31 GMT -5
Eragon is on my summer reading list.
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Post by beautyfr.pain on Jun 13, 2008 0:28:08 GMT -5
I think you should read an inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it, but that's only because i think Al Gore is win for during the inconvenient truth dealie with futurama. concreteangel: emma is the most boring book I have ever attempted to read. the only reason my friend read it was because she wants to read all the works of Jane Austen or something...i dunno, maybe I should try finishing it first. You know she didn't actually say yes? The whole exchange never happened, she just accidently shouted out and one of the gunmen shot her. that's why the song Cassie by flyleaf kind of annoys me; ever since I found that out, it sort of spoiled everything. It's a good song, but it's dedicated to a girl who is viewed as a modern christian martyr when she didn't do anything...-_______- i digress. I don't have summer reading, but I did recently read The Battle of the Labyrinth. It was quite awesome.
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Post by Chibi Chan-o on Jun 13, 2008 22:38:00 GMT -5
Eragon is on my summer reading list. Since when did Eragon become a classic or an environmental thing? It doesn't fit!!! XD BTW, it sucks to be you.
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