Merh...Summer Reading

If you're in highschool now... or you once were. I'm sure you remember the dreaded summer reading. Maybe it isn't necessarily that the books are horrible, but more the thought of doing school work when i'd rather be on the beach reading something like 50 shades of grey... Anyways, next year (or really less than a week away) i'm taking AP Lit, which is requiring a few many books... But, on the bright side, no projects or essays or anything! My boyfriend, taking Honors Lit, only has to read 2 books, but he has to write essays on them, so I win this one. :)

One of the 3 is the classic Catch-22

I'm about 150 pages in, and it isn't horrible. But it is a satire, which I don't to really well with... to me it is a book about the ranting of war and a collection of anecdotes from horrible war things. I feel like all I have done so far is learn about some made up man, Washington Irving/Irving Washington, and learn about people faking sick all the time. Overall, I dont recommend it, but it isn't horrible if you must read it. However, a little bonus, because my mom is cheap, I bought it off Amazon and it came pre-annotated, Yay :)

Next, I have Death of a Salesman

I'm more of about 15 pages into this one so far, but what I understand from the kids last year, it is 100 pages of death in its own. The first 15 pages are about the literal/metaphorical death of this salesman and his perfect life with his wife.

Lastly, the book I have yet to even start...Wise Blood. To me, the title sounds like it should be something like Shutter Island, or something that has to do with the forest and hiking and boring. However, it is apparently about religion, and not at all a satire. So we'll see.

I do plan on finishing all 3 by next Monday... I really do! but that doesn't always mean I will... we'll see how productive i'm really feeling over the next 2 days.

If you've read any of the 3 and have any tips for getting through, please let me know!!