DONE

[jade_sabre]

So I'm back home, yay! Sitting in my favorite locally-owned coffee shop sucking down fruit tea, yay! Staring at my AmeriCorps application with a great deal of trepidation. I am dumb. Avoiding it by making this post! This is not my graduation post; this is my "what should I read this summer?" post.

SO basically the idea is hit me with a book you think I should have read in college, and if I haven't read it, I will add it to my list. Hint: my list already includes The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, and Huckleberry Finn.

I will probably talk more about actual graduation and thoughts about what I want to do with my life later but since I am being all avoidance-y I should keep this short.

Also if I missed any important/amusing posts from the last week and you think I should read them, link me.

Also if I have the entire plot of an approximately 20K-word Katara-centric Ursa-related ATLA fic, should I write it?

p.s. I did not call myself dumb that was Malone stealing my computer.

Comments

[loquaciousquark.livejournal.com]

Narnia.

also The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes you may borrow my copy if you wish

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

*seconding the Sherlock Holmes*

You have to read them in winter at night with a cup of tea. Sneakily reading with a torch. Much more fun!

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

Thirding the Sherlock Holmes!

[nessismore.livejournal.com]

Answer to fanfic question: YES! In fact, that is what you should be doing instead of say...applications and things. Because I am doing writing instead of doing applications and really, it's only fair.

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Love your location.

Let's see, have you read O, Pioneers? One of my faves.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Felicitations!

Wuthering Heights?

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Wuthering Heights I did read! I couldn't decide if I loved or hated it, though.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Wow, done? Congrats!

The Alchemist by Coelho.

[avian-xj.livejournal.com]

I second this!

And add Steinbeck's East of Eden.

[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

Also if I have the entire plot of an approximately 20K-word Katara-centric Ursa-related ATLA fic, should I write it?

Yes. Yes, you should.

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

Ooh! It could be fun to read new ATLA fic. I don't even try to read fanfic, even that supposedly better than canon Zutara stuff people raved about two years ago or whenever. I just can't. But I would love to read some by you. WRITE IT!!

Also...read Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. I cannot recommend that book enough. We read it in one of my lit classes--I'd never heard of the guy before--and it is amazing. Stegner has made me ok with writing things from my own experience. Anytime my Mom told me "write what you know" (instead of fantasy), I balked (and I still kinda do), but Stegner made it ok. He showed me that the simple things of everyday life can be turned into beautiful stories. *happy sigh*

[fathomlesssky.livejournal.com]

You've never read The Great Gatsby? Or Huck Finn? :'(

I actually really loved Jane Eyre when I read it in middle school, but since then I've realized how creepy Rochester actually is as a romantic hero. But then I don't have much of a tolerance for Byronic heroes anymore.