You do it in public.  You do it in private.  You do it in the bathroom, bedroom, living room; you may even do it in your yard.  Reading.  I especially love summertime reading, I feel there is a lot less pressure and it is more enjoyable because the extended daytime hours and lovely weather.  I love making lists, and what I enjoy even more is crossing items off my lists.  I decided to make a Summer Reading List.  This list includes a few questionable titles so let me explain.  My list will include some classics, adult novels, young adult novels, and some education titles.  The list follows by category and is in no particular order.

 

Breezy Reads:

• Bossypants by Tina Fey (this has to be entertaining)
• World War Z by Max Brooks (need to read it before I see it)
• Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisenberger (author of The Devil Wears Prada and overall amazing)
• Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal (FYI this is the Sweet Valley Twins 10 years after high school, I'm embarassingly excited for this)
• The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Neil Strauss (Motley Crue, 'nuff said)
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (saw the movie, the book is always better)

Education:

• Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College by Doug Lemov
• Teaching With Love and Logic:  Taking Control of the Classroom by Jim Fay and David Funk
• Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler
• The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
• The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer

Young Adult Books:

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• Any Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

Oldies but Goodies:

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Heart is a Lonley Hunter by Carson McCullers
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin

I can't believe I haven't read these yet!!!

Miscellaneous:

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris