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I love love love to read, but I could count on one hand the number of
books that I have read for myself in the last three years. I'm a
history major with an interest in English, which means that my last
three years of university has been filled with books. Some were
wonderful (Rumor of War by Philip Caputo), and some were just plain
sadistic (Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte....haha, well I hated it).
But with all of this academic reading I never had time to pick up a
book that I wanted to read without writing a hair-pulling paper on it
or resenting the author and everyone they ever encountered in their
entire life.
So now you say "what about the summer? Couldn't you read then?", and my
answer is no. Working at a summer camp for four months with the hours
of about 730am to 1030pm six days a week means MAYBE fifteen minutes of
reading before bed IF you can keep your eyes open and your friends out
of your bunkie.
However, since I enjoy a challenge (aka setting myself up for failure), I have piled up NINE whole books that I want to read in the next four months. Just to give you a bit of a contextual timeline here, I will tell you that I managed to finish only one book last summer. That is 290 pages of Bill Bryson hilarity in three and a half months.
But as the deluded say, this time will be different. I am dying to read these books and I'm going to do everything possible to make sure I finish at least five of them by the time I go back to school in September.
Having set that benchmark, if you know me, doesn't establish much, so if any camp people are reading this I'd like to hear your bet for how many of these bad boys I will finish this season. (Or if you have any suggestions on which to read first).
Comments
Sounds like a summer of awesome reading to me! I once read the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy in the 4 months of summer...
Can I borrow some books?! You have some great ones. I'm going to be at camp next week?
I'd love to read Rumor of War and what was the Bryson book you read last year?
You can for sure borrow them! But I don't have Rumor of War anymore (sold it back to the bookstore in first year) and I just lent the old Bryson book to my roomie. It was called Neither Here Nor There and it was about traveling in Europe and it was really funny.
But I have his monster of a book Made in America which is supposed to be great.
Come and pick through the pile on Monday!
Good luck with your reading, especially now that you're actually at camp!