- I started reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone right after Rockbridge and decided that I would need a very rigorous schedule of reading to complete the series before July 15...
- so then I read six chapters of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a day, and did the same with
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Since I did so well, I allowed myself to slow down to five chapters a day for
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but I got slowed down severely by my trip to Florida so I had a bit of a mad dash at the end of my time.
- I literally read over half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on the day that the movie came out...I had a headache afterwards but I don't think I'd have it any other way.
- Then I finally finished Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World which I had to keep putting on hold for Harry Potter, though it was very good!
- My summer being almost over, I still had a lot of reading to do so I pretty quickly blasted through Sense and Sensibility which would usually take me like a month to read (instead I took three days).
- I read all of Predictably Irrational on the train to Lynchburg (it may have been my favorite read of the summer)
- then I read Buy-ology and
- Nine Stories (a very good collection of short stories) and
- Witch and Wizard while at the beach getting my tan on
- but I saved The Importance of Being Earnest for the train ride home.
- Finally, I read The Tempest while packing for school.
- I read half of Animal Spirits (I plan on finishing it soon)
- and two thirds of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz randomly at the bookstore...I need to read how it ends because it does have a subplot that got left out of the movie!
So, pretty successful, but kind of disappointing given my ridiculously high standards for summer reading and the fact that I definitely had time to read way more. Oh well - winter break will be here soon enough!
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