I read constantly. I think it is because I don't really do much else in my day-to-day life and so reading just fills in the time and allows me an escape into different words. I'm also rather suseptible to day dreamin'. Every time I finish a book I have decided no a new career path I want to take, or a new time/place I want to live in. Recently I read a book about the profiling of serial killers and decided that I just had to find some way to work at the BSU of the FBI. Probably not likely considering i'm English, and live in England, but a dream none the less. Similarly, I read Tender is the night last week and decided that I needed to live in 1920/30's America, and be rich, and a socialite.
I'm an English Literature student and so reading for the summer is going to be taken up by a hell of a lot of my course books, unfortunately. With over fifty to read next year, a whole module to devise myself and everything I just want to read, this leads to a lot of booktime. Plus, I have a tendency to attempt to make my small, cubelike bedroom, look like a miniature library - with four large floor to ceiling bookshelves filled already, the dream is coming along swimmingly. So, reading this summer? Well, I travel to America on thursday for two months with some webfriends. I presume they'll have books, they're quite geeky. So i'm only going to take a few on the plane and then i'll raid what they have on their bookshelves and devour everything possible. Or, i'll buy books there, because its cheaper.
Summer Reading LIst
Tender is the Night
Profiling the Serial Killer
How to write/read fiction
The Saga of Darren Shan (all twelve)
The Interpretation of Murder
Eragon
A Clockwork Orange
Mrs. Dalloway
Catcher in the Rye (again)
The Noodle Maker
Shades Children
Superior Saturday (I <3 Garth Nix)
The Communist Manifesto
The Book Theif
War and Peace
The God Delusion
The Ancestors Tale
A Brief History of Time
Brisingr
Poetry of Charles Bukowski
And then probably a lot of other stuff that I just pick up when I have the time. So ya know, any suggestions that people may have, i'm sure I can find the time to fit them in.
Pff. I read a lot more than I thought I did.
-Shall go find a life now-