Young Writers Society

Alright. So far, we have:

Forest Born- Shannon Hale (reading at the moment)
The Magician's Apprentice- Trudi Canavan (halfway through)
The Crowded Shadows- Celine Kiernan
My Swordhand is Singing- Marcus Sedgwick
Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins (when it comes out)
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
The Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer (but a retelling by Peter Ackroyd, I don't do middle-English)
Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh (if I can get my hands on a copy)
Hotel Juliet- Belinda Seaward (met the author, been meaning to read it for a year)
1939- The Last Season- Anne de Courcy (had it for ages)
Anything Goes- A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
Harry Potter agus an Órchloch- JK Rowling (need to finish it)
Harry Potter et la chambre de secrets- JK Rowling (only on Chapter Two).

Oh! Plus lots of biology textbooks. Possibly Chemistry too. And straightforward Physiology and Anatomy.

(I love how I needed to give explanations to most of those).

Everybody else's look awesome Happy reading!

EDIT: Oh, and seeing Jas':

Skippy Dies- Paul Murray.

I want to read this so so badly. I was going to wait to get it out of the school library, but I might just buy it.

-Stella x

Wow, it's nice to see that I'm not the only one with a summer reading list! I told my mom that I had planned a reading schedule for the summer and she just laughed at me But seriously I'm reading these/read:

Eclipse-Stephanie Meyer (for the movie)
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner-" "
Generation Dead series- Daniel Waters
Fallen-Lauren Kate
Before I fall-Lauren Oliver
Sea Change-Aimee Friedman
Then a few more books that I'll rent from the library
Harry Potter 6+7 for the movie in November!
Then:
The Vampire Academy series for Decemberish because that's when the last book comes out!

Now, I have read some of these books before, actually the only new ones are/were: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, the third Generation Dead, Fallen, Before I fall, Sea Change and the fifth Vampire Academy. The rest are re-reads lined up for a deadline!

Two For The Dough - Janet Evanovich (just finished)
Three To Get Deadly to however far I get in the Stephanie Plum series - also by Janet Evanovich.
Coming Up For Air - George Orwell
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
V For Vendetta - Alan Moore (why not graphic novels? =3)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (argh. This'll be harder since my parents seem to believe I am incapable of basic distancing from fiction. But-but-but I've seen the film! Dx) [/rant]
This Is Not A Game - Walter Jon Williams

...and whatever else I end up picking up.

What Philosophical books are you reading? Or any books to do with life?

I'm reading "On looking". Its about looking at the world and situations from different views.