Summer Reading List!

Maybe I should call this my June-July-August reading list, instead of a "summer" reading list...


1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
This one is my last literature book. I'm really interested to read some Virginia Woolf. Her books have interesting premises.


2. The Ankulen by Kendra E. Ardnek.
I've been looking forwards to this one since it came out!! Yay! I've been saving it for summer.


3. Autobiography by Agatha Christie.
Technically I've already been reading this for the past few months... But I took a bit of a hiatus while we were in Europe and haven't gotten around to picking it back up again. Soon, I will finish the book. I'm really enjoying it! Did you know Agatha Christie almost became a concert pianist? She practiced hours and hours each day when she was a teenager, but in the end, her teacher said that she didn't have enough courage on stage to be a performer. At this point in her life, she hadn't even begun to write yet. Her favorite subjects were music and math. She nearly became a mathematician too!


4. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.
I started this one, but then found out how it ended... But it's been a year, so now I feel like I can start it again. Plus, it's set on the Orient Express! Trains! Eep!


5. John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan.
I love JQA, son of John Adams. JQA was our sixth president and among those least known. He served only one term and people really didn't like him all that much. Probably because he was so outspoken and brash. I'm excited to learn more about him in this biography!


6. George Gershwin: His Life and Works by Howard Pollack.
Remember this book from last year's summer reading list? I didn't even attempt to read it last year... Maybe this year it will go over better!


7. Caroline and Rebecca American Girl stories.
These are the only two that I haven't read, and I'd like to read them before American Girl switches over to their "BeForever" dolls.


8. Something by Louisa May Alcott... Probably Little Women, maybe An Old Fashioned Girl.


9. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
Once, a few years ago, my mom told me to read this book. I did, but I can barely remember it. It was right when I was transitioning out of Warrior Cats and Sharon Creech into Sherlock Holmes and Jane Austen. I think Anne of Green Gables was just a little too much for me at the time. I can't wait to re-read it!


10. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse.
Next in the Jeeves and Wooster saga.


11. Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse.
The next after The Code of the Woosters in the Jeeves and Wooster saga.


12. Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens by Oliver DeMille.
My whole life I've been homeschooled in the Thomas Jefferson Education lifestyle. Instead of making children memorize useless facts just to get through school and pass tests, TJEd, focuses on fostering a lifelong love of learning through mentorship. I actually don't know too much beyond that, so I'm really excited to read this book. Once I finish it, I'll blog more about TJEd! Though I may not know too terrible much about it currently, I can say that whatever it is - it sure worked!


13. How to Write a Short Story by SparkNotes.
This is a book that has been haunting me the past few weeks. It sits on a shelf above the computer that I do my math and Dutch on, so I see it nearly every day. It has made me increasingly more and more curious, so I've decided to read it!


14. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
I'm planning on starting this one tonight. If I read two chapters a day, I'll be done in 22 days. Wish me luck!


I had fourteen books on my list last year. I read twelve... Though my list kind of changed throughout last summer. We'll see how my list changes this year! I'm a little worried about reading three very thick biographies... One a month? Actually that might not be a bad idea.


What are you currently reading, or planning to read this summer?


Live long and prosper!

Books, books, books!

Summer is over! (Technically is doesn't end until September 22, but we're not being technical here.)

I got quite a few books ticked off my summer reading list (though some were added, and some were taken off in the process).

The Future Door by Jason Lethcoe - A good sequel to a good book.

Crater by Homer Hickam - Loved this book!!

A bunch of random Agatha Christie - I read four: Murder at the Vicarage, the first Miss Marple mystery; And Then There Were None, an amazing book that every mystery fan should read! Death on the Nile, which was a great mystery set in Egypt; and Dead Man's Folly, which was a quick read... I enjoyed it because it had Ariadne Oliver, though the rest of the characters (excepting Poirot) were kind of dull, and the plot wasn't as brilliant as some of her other novels.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - Brilliant book, if you can get past the swearing and slang phrases.

Emma by Jane Austin - I loved Emma! It was great.

Sew, It's a Quest and Do You Take This Quest? by Kendra E. Ardnek - Check! These are great books. I especially liked the second one.

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss - We listened to this in the car to and from Minnesota. It was wonderful, as usual... though in some parts it was kind of unrealistic.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - LOVED this one! Great.

Assignment: Eternity by Greg Cox - I didn't get this one done. Haven't even started it yet.

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien - I started RotK about two or three weeks ago... And it's so exciting! I can hardly put it down at night. Sam just rescued Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol. I'm about a half-way through, hoping to finish by the end of the month.

We'll be starting up literature sometime soon, so I will have some nice books to read there... Also, I have some books that I would like to read in general. And I made a decision. This school year, I would like to always be reading one non-fiction book alongside the fiction I normally read.
So here is my list of books I'd like to get done before next summer:

• Crescent by Homer Hickam - This is the sequel to Crater. I read the first chapter a few weeks ago... and never got any farther.
• Finish Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien - Yes!
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - To prepare myself for the second part of the Hobbit movie (which sounds like it will be nothing like the book at all, sadly).
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Just because.
• Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll - Because I enjoyed Alice in Wonderland so much.
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin - This is the one Jane Austin novel that I don't really know the story of... I saw the movie once a long time ago, but I can't remember much of it. I don't want to see the movie again until I've read the book.
• Persuasion by Jane Austin - Because the movie is so good.
• Kat and Kadet by Jessica Hammond - I've read the first chapter! Kadet has a comfy chair.
• Finding Lily by Jessica Hammond - Because I've only read this one once, when I was editing it. I feel bad about never reading the finished copy. I'm looking forwards to those llamas again!
• The Ankulen by Kendra E. Ardnek - Because it sounds like a really good book!
• Assignment: Eternity by Greg Cox - The Star Trek novel. I read the prologue and first chapter a few days ago.
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - Because it's short.

(now the literature books)

• Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney - Because it's literature. And our copy has a super cool cover. And because I think there's a Star Trek Voyager episode where Harry Kim does something Beowulfish in the holodeck. I can't remember exactly.
• Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - An epic poem.
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J.R.R. Tolkien (and other Arthurian legend) - This will be good, I think. I'm interested to know a little bit more about Arthurian legend.
• King Lear by William Shakespeare - Why couldn't it be Hamlet? Hopefully the play isn't as boring as the movie we watched.
• Paradise Lost by John Milton - I think this is another epic poem (about the Fall of Man).
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin - I'm excited for this one! I love P+P. Also, it will help me with a story idea...
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - I'm excited for this one as well. I've been wanting to read Dickens.
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - This one shall be interesting. It seems like people either love this book or hate it. I'm curious to see which I'll be.
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - I've heard about her, but I don't know anything about her. I'm interested to see what all the hubbub is about.

(and now the non-fiction)

• Nazi Prisoners of War in America by Arnold Krammer - I already started this one. It was a book our tour guide in Algona recommended, at the P.O.W. museum.
• Various books on church history (mostly bios of important figures in the church - to be read for history).
• George Gershwin: His Life and Works by Howard Pollack - Because I love Gershwin.
• Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter - Because Tolkien is my favorite author and I'd love to know more about who he was as a person. That's what I'm Tolkien about!
• A biography on Beethoven? I've always been fascinated with Beethoven, and would love to learn more about him. I'd need to do some research on a good biography, though.
• Autobiography of Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie? I'd like to read this at some point... I'm not sure when, though.
• A Backwards Glance by Edith Wharton? This is Edith Wharton's autobiography... Again, I'd love to read this, but I'm not sure when.
• A book or two about trains - I love trains. I want to learn about trains. Their history, their impact on society, how they work... Trains. I have to go to the library and find some books on trains, first, though. And do some research on what sort of books I should get.

I'll probably add more to the list(s) as I think of them, or as my interests shift. For now, though, that is what I hope to read before next summer!

How did writing go the month of August?
I didn't quite finish Part Three... But I got a lot of good work done on it, what with writing some new scenes, editing with Mom, and typing in other's edits into the computer.
My goal for this month is to finish editing with my mom and finish typing in the edits that people have sent me. I would really like to get this done sometime before Sunday, the 22nd. Then, I can have a good nine days of so off of editing, so when I go back to editing in October, I'll be new and fresh and ready to go!
Also, I would like to set aside time with my dad to work on a new cover.

Any of you reading any good books?

Live long and prosper.

I can't believe it's July!

This year is moving by too quickly....
Sorry I didn't have a Top Tuesdays up yesterday. I'm under the weather... sort of.  My body can't decide if it's sick or not - or if it has a cold or allergies. So I've been lying on the couch resting and reading. Yesterday I also did a lesson of math which used up all my brain power, leaving none left for a Top Tuesdays.

Hopefully today's post will make up for it... I have a number of things to talk about and June wrap-up updates.
So, without further ado, let's get started!

1. Miss Jack Lewis Baillot over at However Improbable interviewed me! Check it out HERE!

2. Writing update. I had to change my writing plan slightly to accommodate the fact that instead of Two Parts, I now have Three Parts to After the Twelfth Night.
My June goal was to edit Parts Two and Three... But I changed it to just Part Two because Part Three needs some going over before Mom and I attack it.
Which brings me to my July writing goals...
In the near future (like, in the next week) go over Part Three and add scenes that need to be added. Then go over it with Mom. Hopefully finish by the end of the month... But if not, the world won't explode.

3. Reading update.
I finished ten books this past month! Including The Two Towers! Wooohooooo!!!
How am I doing on my summer reading list? I've got a few of them read....

• The Future Door by Jason Lethcoe - finished today!
• Crater by Homer Hickam - hoping to start in the next few weeks!
• A bunch of random Agatha Christie - I got one read! Murder at the Vicarage, the first Miss Marple mystery.
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - Haven't started it yet, but plan to soon.
• Emma by Jane Austin - I'm currently reading this one and loving it!
• Sew, It's a Quest and Do You Take This Quest? by Kendra E. Ardnek - check! These are great books. I especially liked the second one.
• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - this is one of the questionable ones... I might read this one next month.
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss - another questionable one that I might read next month.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll - I'd really like to get this one read soon.... especially since it's so short!
• Assignment: Eternity by Greg Cox - I exchanged A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court for this Star Trek novel.
• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien - now that I've finished with The Two Towers... I want to take on the final part in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I'm planning on reading this one next month.

And the other books on the list I took off because I either haven't got them anymore (they went back to the library) or I've lost my interest in them for the present.

4. Nerd Life.

 

Claire at Working Title is doing a nerd marathon this month called Nerd Life. Here is the link. You can go there for the information. I'm going to take part! At least partly. There's two parts to this marathon... During the month of July you challenge yourself to read as many books as you can (that you've never read before). Also, during the month of July, you can post about nerd/geeky things such as Star Trek, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, etc. etc....
I'll start off with my goals for the reading quest (which I'm gonna take from my list up above). This month I plan to read and blog about....

• Crater by Homer Hickam.
• And Then There Were None (or, Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie.
• Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie.
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
• Emma by Jane Austin (even though I've already started reading it.... I want to finish it this month - that's my goal).
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll.
• And finally... Assignment: Eternity by Greg Cox (the Star Trek novel).

We'll see how far I get!
As for the other part of the Nerd Life... I'm going to use it as an excuse to ramble on and on and on and on about Star Trek! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! *ahem*
Maybe not. But look out for posts about Star Trek, Doctor Who (because I fully intend to do a DW-episode-watching-marathon-thing this month), StarGate... and books, I suppose.
I think it will be fun. If you want to participate, just head over to Claire's blog (links up above) and tell her you'll be participating! And if that's not enough incentive, participants get a picture drawn by Claire at the end of the month (she's a fabulous artist!).

That about wraps up everything I wanted to say...

 

Summer reading list.

I have a review of The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway for you.... but I don't want to write it tonight because it is getting late. But I figured I had better post something so I decided on my summer reading list! Usually I just read whatever I want to.... but this year I've compiled a list of books that either a) have to be read because they are due at the library soon b) have been sitting on my shelf for a number of months begging to be read, or c) they are on my huge list (over 150 titles) of Books To Read Before I Die.

So, without further ado, my summer reading list!

1. The Future Door by Jason Lethcoe.
Remember the No Place Like Holmes book I did a review on a long time ago? It was the sort of Steampunk-ish book about the kid who moves into 221c Baker Street...?
The Future Door is the sequel. I bought it in April with a gift card from Christmas.... It involves time travel, so that should be fun to read!

2. Crater by Homer Hickam.
Homer Hickam is supposedly a well-known author... He wrote a book called Rocket Boys which is a memoir about his time working with rockets. It was made into a movie, October Sky.
Crater is the first novel in a trilogy that Mr. Hickam wrote for young people (such as myself!). Crater's cover drew me to it. It is about a boy, named Crater, who lives on the moon mining Helium-3. Then he runs into adventure.... That's about all I know about it. But it looked intriguing. And I had to spend the gift card on something!
The other day when we were at a different Christian bookstore, I saw the sequel, Crescent. It has an equally stunning cover.... but I have to read the first one first!

 

3. A bunch of random Agatha Christie stuff.
I've been buying some of her books at thrift stores for cheap.... so I have quite a small pile to read now! Death on the Nile, Dead Man's Folly, Miss Marple Short Story Collection.... Just to name a few. Also Murder at the Vicarage which has to go back to the library soon - so I'd better start reading it!

4. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
I follow this one blogger who loves this book. It mildly interested me and I made a note to read it eventually.... Then I found out that a movie was being made and that Harrison Ford was going to be in it. I'm a big Harrison Ford fan so I decided that maybe I should read the book, just in case I go see the movie.
But, of course, the library has a million holds on it (because everyone else is thinking the same way as me - read the book before the movie comes out! This happened with The Great Gatsby too. Luckily we bought our copy last August, before the big movie-rush came). So I put a hold on two copies... hopefully it will come in soon. But not too soon, as I would really like to read it next month, when we're camping.

5. Emma by Jane Austin (and perhaps some of her other work as well).
My mom and I LOVE BBC's production of Emma starring Ramola Garai and Jonny Lee Miller.

 

And I've been meaning to read the book for awhile now.... It seems like a good summer read, and I've been craving some Jane Austin.... so it works out perfectly! I'll probably start this one very soon. As soon as I finish Fever Crumb and The Penderwicks series.

6. Sew, it's a Quest and Do You Take This Quest? by Kendra E. Ardnek.
Kendra is a fellow blogger of mine and I've been meaning to read her books for a bit now.... But I'm a paperback kind of person, so I've been waiting for her second book in her Bookania series to come out in paperback. Six more days!

These next few are questionable.... AKA, it depends if I feel like reading them or not:

7. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery.
I read Anne of Green Gables in 2011 (I think) because my mom said I would really enjoy it. I didn't really enjoy it. But I think that was my own fault.... I was reading it more for her sake than mine and I probably would have rather been reading something else. Something not classical-ish.
But now I think I would really enjoy this book! So it's on my reading list for now. I would really like to read all of Anne's books.

8. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss.
Once upon a time my family and I went on vacation somewhere and listened to The Swiss Family Robinson in the car to and from. This must have been prior to 2010... But I remember really, really enjoying the book. I have been meaning to re-read it for awhile now. Just typing about it makes me excited to read it. Perhaps I'll save this one for camping as well (I have a whole pile of books that I want to take camping with me. And we'll only be there a week!)

9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
Several of my friends have read this recently and enjoyed it.... and so I thought I'd give it a try!

10. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.
This is another book that has to go back to the library soon... It is about an American who is thrown back in time to King Arthur's time! It looks very funny and hopefully I can get it read before it has to go back to the library. Otherwise, I'll just have to take it out again.

11. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
This is a Vancouver Sun classic... number five, I believe. I don't know too much about the story, but what I do know sounds interesting. We'll see if I get to it.

12. The Magic Bicycle by John Bibee.
This is the first in a series. My dad read it to me a long time ago and I remember it frightened me... I was a little too young for it, I think. But he loves the series.
Now I think I would probably really enjoy it too. It's about a boy who finds a magical bicycle (if memory serves me right).
Plus it has a super cool cover:

 

13. George Gershwin. His Life and Works by Howard Pollack.
This is MASSIVE biography about, well, George Gershwin. Gershwin was a composer during the Jazz Age. He is most known for Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris.

 

This biography deals with his life and his works.... But it is so huge I don't know if I will read it all. It's 800 pages long! We'll see about that.....

14. Just 'cause I don't want thirteen.... not that I'm superstitious or anything. Fourteen is just a better number. Maybe this last book has something to do with it... I don't know:
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Because the second half of the movie will be coming out in December, and I have to re-re-read The Hobbit before then. And no, I didn't put too many "re's." I just recently re-read The Hobbit (April of 2012, I believe) but I need to re-re-read it again... so that I know what's to happen in the movie and where P. Jackson takes liberties.
I'll also probably read the appendixes at the end of The Return of the King because a bunch of stuff from the Hobbit movies is supposed to come from there....

How about all you? Do you have any big summer reading plans?

Live long and prosper!

A bunch of updates.

First an update on that ancient list of books I hoped to read in the future... This isn't actually my most updated list of 'books to read.' That list is over 100 titles long and I will not  be posting that here 'cause... it's just too long. xD

1. Vancouver Sun books by various authors. (I have a whole bunch of these read now. But a lot of them are still unread to.)
2. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. (I'M SO CLOSE! WHY CAN'T I FINISH IT?!)
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
4. Emma by Jane Austin.
5. Books by Charles Dickens (I read A Christmas Carol at Christmastime!)
6. Books by Jules Verne.
7. Books by H.G. Wells (In the middle of reading The War of the Worlds. I also have The Invisible Man sitting on the shelf waiting to be read....)
8. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
9. Re-read Watership Down by Richard Adams.
10. Re-read The Freedom Factor by Gerald L. Lund.
11. Re-read The Alliance by same author.
12. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
13. Leviathan by Scott Westerfield.
14. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien.
15. Re-read Robin Hood by Howard Pyle.
16. A biography on J.R.R. Tolkien. (I'm one step closer.... I now own a biography about Tolkien. I just have to find time to read it.)
17. More of the Bible. (I have certainly read more of the Bible since the last time I posted this list! But this one is kind of ongoing...)
18. The Princess Bride by William Goldman. (And I just finished re-reading two nights ago! Review sometime later this week).
19. Books by C.S. Lewis.
20. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (I'm one step closer... I own it now. Hurrah for the thrift store).
Now a writing update....
I finished my April goal which was to finish Camp NaNoWriMo.
To write this blog post, I took a break from my May goal: edit/add stuff to Part One of After the Twelfth Night.
Here's one of my favorite lines near the beginning of the book that I absolutely LOVE!

   I found out later that it had not, in fact, been Sebastian that I ‘rescued’ from that sword fight; it was his twin sister Viola, dressed as a man. I don’t quite understand it all, but in the end Sebastian married Lady Olivia, Viola married Duke Orsino, and I ended up in jail.

As you may know, I love the Beatles.

 

Every few months I discover a song by them that I didn't know about before... Today was one of those days. I discovered "Yes It Is" which is just a beautiful song. John Lennon said that he had been trying to rewrite "This Boy" and it didn't quite work out. But I think "Yes It Is" is just really beautiful... Calming with great harmonies.

As for books... I'm only reading five now, as opposed to the seven I was reading last week.
For literature I'm reading "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (fun fact, his name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was named partly after a deceased sister and partly for his distant relative Francis Scott Key who wrote The Star Spangle Banner). I'm really enjoying this book. After I finished my chapter today I just wanted to keep reading... It's set in the roarin' twenties. I love that time period anyway, but the way Scott Fitzgerald writes it... His language is beautiful.

I'm also reading "A Hero For WondLa" which I forgot to mention last time... I'm not too far into it but so far really enjoying it! It is the sequel to "The Search for WondLa" which I read in March.

Then, of course, there is the ever present "Two Towers" and also "The War of the Worlds." I'm also reading Jessica's book Kat and Kadet as I edit it. And I suppose I'm reading "After the Twelfth Night" too since I'm editing it.... Argh.

I'm trying to fight the urge to start reading Inkheart again... I love that book. Because it is a book about books. And that makes it cool.

Anyway, back to editing and listening to the Beatles!

Live long and prosper!

P.S. My mom is having surgery tomorrow and we would appreciate prayer. It isn't anything too major.... But it's still kind of scary. =)

I shall improve my mind with extensive reading.

My summer plan is to finish my science book, finish my math book, finish my novel, and read. Extensively.
I am going to try finish four books before the end of summer. The first is The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien, which I am currently reading. The other four are the first four books in the Vancouver Sun books that I received from my aunt. The 32 classics include small books, like The Hound of Baskervilles and The Jungle Book, but also includes big volumes like Oliver Twist, Ivanhoe, and Moby Dick.

It would be impossible for me to choose which book to start with; luckily I won't have to. I believe that the books came out every month or so and you had to order them all separately. They are all numbered from 1-32. I will be reading them in order. Our of all 32 books, I have only read 4 1/2 of them! I am very excited to read so many great classics.

The first on the list is The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Next is The Secret Garden.
My plan is to read a big, hard to get through novel at the same time as reading one from the Vancouver Sun books.
I start now!
What about the rest of this blog post?
I start in 5 hours!

I'm gonna keep you guys updated as to my progress, partly because it gives me something to blog about and partly so you can hold me accountable! I'm not a good reader.... I love to read, but I'm not good at it. If I come to a paragraph heavy on description, I tend to stop reading, set the book down, and stare off into nothingness for awhile. If I get bored with a book, I tend to put it down and not pick up again until I've forgotten the storyline and have to start over at the beginning. I have a whole bunch of books on my "to read" list but they keep ending up back on the list because I never finished them the first time!
Well, I'm determined to do something to change that. I am going to read through this set of books whether I find the stories interesting, boring, or a mix of in between. I am going to call this part of my homeschooling. These books are required reading as of NOW!

Speaking of my "to read" list.... It is VERY long. I am going to write it down on this blog post so I can remember it, add to it, cross things off it, and hopefully get through these books before I am a little old lady!

In no particular order, my "to read" list:

1. Vancouver Sun books by various authors.
2. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien.
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
4. Emma by Jane Austin.
5. Books by Charles Dickens.
6. Books by Jules Verne.
7. Books by H.G. Wells.
8. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
9. Re-read Watership Down by Richard (?) Adams.
10. Re-read The Freedom Factor by Gerald L. Lund.
11. Re-read The Alliance by same author.
12. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
13. Leviathan by Scott Westerfield.
14. I am Lavina Cumming by unknown author.
15. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien.
16. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.
17. Re-read Robin Hood by Howard Pyle.
18. The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle.
19. A biography on J.R.R. Tolkien.
20. More of the Bible.
EDIT- I forgot one or two....
21. The Princess Bride by unknown author.
22. C.S. Lewis books (mainly, The Screwtape Letters and the space trilogy).

And there you have it. Altogether that is somewhere around 60 or 70 books (if you include the actual 32 books from the Vancouver Sun set and the individual books from Dickens, Verne, and Well).
So, I have a busy few years of reading in front of me. I'm looking forewards to it. If you have any of the books I mentioned above, please tell me what you thought of them! Also, if you have any specific Dickens, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells books you would recommend, please comment down below as well!

This afternoon I finally decided, since I'm re-writing so much of this particular part of my novel, why not just type it instead of handwriting it all? So that's what I did. And I probably got more done typing than writing the entire time I've been editing. I got a whooping 3500 words done! How exciting! I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, I will be able to get the entire novel done by the end of August... Maybe. =)

Have a great week!