one flew over the cuckoos nest:
is on standby

bug:
slowly, but surely being read

the diary of Anne frank:
horribly behind schedule

to kill a mocking bird:
very rushed

Franny and zooey
i was half done a month ago..?

it's hard to keep track of the books I'm reading and where i am in them. it's especially hard when new books get added to your already messy book list. maybe i should have more to say about reading and books and all. but really, I've been all over the place reading a couple pages here, a chapter over there.... and maybe i should only be concentrated on like two books, but I'm not.

choosing one book...
I'm choosing bug because i read the play this week and i thought it was insane. just. really. screwed up intense and scary. i really loved it, the plot and, just really the whole story line is great and all. what i found that was pretty interesting though was how simple and so ordinarily straightforward the dialogue was for such a weird, intense play. it made a really normal environment and a really basic environment. it also struck me as interesting because it contradicted to what my drama teacher told me about writing plays. he forbid us from using words like there, here, something, maybe, thing and so on and so on. however, in this play, a good portion of the dialogue is practically devoted to such words.

compare, compare, compare.

                       Because i know my reading club which was specifically designed so we would have "professional arguments" with each other, (in other words we can't agree on anything and we never stop fighting (physicaly and verbaly) and we never get along and are all completely annoyed and mad at each other yelling a vast majority of the hour or two we spend attempting to discuss ethics and all that philosophical shinanagaz) i have took it upon myself to read the diary of Anne frank. yes. after a looooong look at the cover, i decided that i would invade this girl's life, go into her diary and read through it and "listen" to her talk about her inner most thoughts and predicaments. But i figured it's okay because it's like a best seller or something. but at the same time, i feel weird because it was sort of her diary. she meant it to be between her and her diary. But i mean,...yeah. So that's my plan. Well, actually not my whole plan, during my first couple of sentences into the book, i realized that Anne frank is about my age, and i wanted to read up to Anne Frank's fourteenth birthday by my birthday because my 13th memories are fresh in my mind and i thought it would be a good idea because i can compare and contrast our lives, see who she was as a 13 year old and take into consideration the time difference, the situations and all. -i just thought it would be cool. so then, on my next birthday i could read her life as a fourteen year old and compare it too mine. i can already assume that we will have some common ground because most teenagers have the same problems, the same thoughts the same worries. but Anne frank. she had to deal with the whole world war two thing. that's a LOT. so I'm just looking forward to relating to this girl and i feel like if i don't read it NOW,  my experience of reading it when I'm older will be a lot different. but I'm pretty exited to try this out. i feel like it's going to be pretty cool and all. we'll see how it turns out.

backwards reading.

                   I know some books aren't my level and that i will come across a book that might be a little too advanced for me to read. However; i don't like to think about that. i like to pick up a book and read and read and read. I'll interperate what i understand and maybe there will be a bit where i'm just like "what?" but i move on and make sence of it later. I never thought too much about how it would effect my reading when i would get lost in a book, hunting for my last page. (because my bookmarks always fall out) So i didn't think too much every time i would pick up my book and begin reading at a different page than i left off at. but now, it's getting to a point where i get what's going on in my book, but all the events are out of order and i feel like it effects the way i read this book i'm reading and how i think of the characters. because of this i believe i haven't build the relationship (with the characters) that i should have built by now. i also feel like every scene is just the same. i feel like nothing has really changed in the book withen these first -i dont know- hundred pages and nothing is really going on. What doesn't help, is that i think this book is just a little bit too advanced for my reading. like, i understand it fine, but not everything registers in my brain and part of the reason that i am not able to go straight back to the page i left off at is because when i'm trying to find that page, i end up rereading parts of the book. Because the book is a little advanced, i rereadad every part in a different way. It's not fair though because i kinda really like this book, and my parents saw the movie and said it was funny and i'm dying to see it but i know that the book is way better than the movie but i don't wana ruin the book for myself. It's all so confusing. . . i don't know how i will resolve this.

time to read.

This week i have been reading some very intriguing passages from one of my favorite sources of short passages, the New York State English Language Tests. they have all sorts of fascinating things to read. from saving the world and being a better person to inspiring poetry and memoirs. However, so far my all time favorite piece i have read from these series is a little story about a boy in a new school who's favorite hobby is to draw superheros at home and make stories with them. I liked this story particularly because i could totally relate to this character, who was so committed to his favorite hobby. i also thought it was so interesting because his hobby was so cool. My favorite part of this story was at the end when the stranger the main character runs into helps him and complements him on his drawings. i thought that was an especially good part because it shows how stereotypes don't apply to all people.