Death by Honors English

So the book reviews failed.

CLEARLY.

I swear, I got through about half of the book reviews. Most of them were bad reviews, in which I majorly dissed all the poorly-written books I'd read that summer. Since I'm sure you guys don't want to read four bad book reviews, with much negativity, I will refrain from posting them (unless, you know, some kind soul out there really wants to read them).

Where does that leave me? I would be reading/reviewing the newest in young adult literature, had I not been attending something called high school. I have been forced to read dull classics and Greek plays in my English class. I read freaking ANNA KARENINA. And it's 800 pages! There's also those aforementioned Greek plays I had to suffer through--all eight of them. After a while, one gets tired of reading about Oedipus' dreadful incest sob story, in which EVERYONE DIES.

This new semester isn't much better, I'll give you that. We have to read Romeo and Juliet five times (yes, you read that right) and I am now currently slogging through A Tale of Two Cities. Hey, Dickens is totally not the worst of the old English writers, I'll give you that. It's just that I'd so like to be reading something else. Something more exciting.

In conclusion, maybe I'll get to reading/reviewing this coming summer. Although I have been drowning in much classic material lately, I DID get time to read Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Prince and the fabulous The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

What about you guys? What have you been reading lately? Hopefully not a bunch of old classics....

-Kira