Summer Reading

            With the first week of summer gone already, it’s time to start making some

 goals. Every year, I tell myself I’m going to do all these great things and make the most of my summer. Last year, I even made a “Summer Bucket List” with almost thirty items to check off, and I was pretty determined to mark off every single one. By the time school started, I had crossed off maybe half. This summer is not off to much of a better start. My first week was spent doing nothing but working, and after work, lounging around watching Friends reruns, ironically without any of mine, and the complete second season of Laguna Beach, complaining the whole time that my high school experience wasn’t like that at all. I gave myself an allowance of one week to get caught up on the much missed hours of sleep I had lost throughout the school year and try to grasp that I was no longer a high school student. But that grace period has passed and it’s time to take advantage of the sweet summer time am I right?

            But I think it has rained every day of the summer so far. So until the sun decides to come out of hiding, I still have plenty I can get done within the walls of the great indoors.

            First off, I’ve accumulated my own summer reading list. I have about a million books I’ve been collecting on my bookshelf all year, with no time to read them. Now I’ve got plenty of time and intend on finally getting at least some of them read! All of Jane Austen’s works have made the list, and I’ve personally started reading Pride and Prejudice for two summers now, but somehow never get through the whole book, whether it is because I get distracted by other books or get too busy. After recently watching the movie for about the hundredth time, this summer I am determined to finally read the book in its entirety. It’s for my own good, really.

Last fall, I lent my Hunger Games series to my sister and mother, even though I hadn’t finished Mockingjay yet, because school had begun and the lack of free time did not grant me the luxury of reading for fun. Yesterday, I finally finished the last book after shelving it for the school year. I had been dragging on reading it last summer anyway, because I knew that I would be sad when it was all over. I was right in my prediction. And now I just want my own Peeta and we all know that’s not going to happen any time soon—you Hunger Games fans, even if you’re on “Team Gale”, feel me on this one, I know you do.

            I hope you all enjoy some summer reading, and feel free to send me some recommendations or ask me for some of mine. For now, appreciate the beautiful sound and smell of the rain and read on.

            Always, Anna