Huhh.. Here we are, writing about reading, again. Anyways, summer is coming up and among the peaceful ideas of idle tanning and floating in a lake, the concrete reality of MORE learning is being forced into my mind. It's strange how in the beginning of the year, I was ignorant enough to believe that reading was fun, but then I got to reading Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, and I've begun to understand how truly wrong I was. Reluctantly, I'm trying to accept books back into my life, after unremittingly avoiding reading for some time. It will be hard, but I think I'll start with reading some books by my favorite authors, such as Tamora Pierce and Madeleine L'Engle. These two authors have a commonality of writing many sequential series, and they are all consistently good books overall.
I plan on reading a series of Tamora Pierce books, that I haven't gotten around to reading which is the Beka Cooper series. Basically, the trilogy - set in Medieval times - is about a heroine named Beka, and she is a Provost's Guardfor Tortall, which is kind of like the police force of this fictional country. I'm interested to read this series because I liked Pierce's previous books for its romantic yet adventurous themes; of course, I'm not sure if this will have a romantic quality to it, but I have high expectations of Tamora Pierce, and I'm sure this will meet my standard.
After finishing that series, I'm not sure if I have time for another series of books, what with summer school and camps and such, but if I do, I definitely plan on reading Madeleine L'Engle's work. I've already read one of the books of her long series, but I believe I started at the wrong spot, so I will have to go to the very beginning of the series and start over. This particular series is called Chronos, but the first book which I will definitely try to read, is called Meet the Austins. It's a story about a girl named Vicky Austin, who's happy family is dirupted by the arrival of a troubled girl named Maggy. The whole story is built with increasing problematic incidents in each chapter, and though this sounds cliched and ordinary, I'm sure it's a book that is easy to be sucked into, because L'Engle has a classy way of writing that mkaes you want to continue reading.
I've heard those are good books, even though I've never read them or thought to read to read them. And I completely agree with you on the whole 'reading used to be fun' thing and since all the books we read I'm kind of afraid to read now. But I will.
I've heard those are good books, even though I've never read them or thought to read to read them. And I completely agree with you on the whole 'reading used to be fun' thing and since all the books we read I'm kind of afraid to read now. But I will.
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