Senior year was Honors English. We read novels in the first semester: I can only remember Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Hesse's "Siddhartha", and Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" at the moment. I know there was more.

The second semester was plays: "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" "The Father", "A Dollhouse", "Hedda Gabbler", "A Streetcar Named Desire", and once again I forget what else.

I read Handmaid's Tale in one day, while on jury duty (better known as sitting in a nasty waiting room and never being called). I still need to catch up on Atwood -- I have a couple I've never read, but I loved her early stuff.

Jilli, you own the book, or you borrowed it? Because if you own it, I MUST READ.

OF COURSE I own it. Hello, do you know me? Don't worry, I'll hand it to you when I'm done with it.

Jilli, If you bring it to the F2F, I might want to take a glance at it.

Picture of Dorian Gray

Kat, you'll love this-- Nate, at the bookstore the other day, comes up to me and says, "Mom, what's the deal with The Picture of Dorian Gray?"

"Why, Nate?"

"Well, because in the graphic novel section I saw a copy of it and then in the tower section, they have a novel."

"It's pretty well known."

Gives me the patented twelve-year-old boy look. "Well, yeah, I figured that, but is it good?"

"I think so."

"Can I get it?"

"Which one--the graphic novel or the regular novel."

"Can I have both?"

Hee!

Sure, sj.

Hrm, senior year. AP English. King Lear, Pride and Prejudice, Jude the Obscure...um...

It's possible that I wasn't paying huge amounts of attention in senior year English. Especially the second half.

p&p&z might be good for readings... actually I wonder if I can get DH to read it to me.

Amy, I did! I was going to write back and say you absolutely MUST read 13 Reasons Why, which is fantastic!

Oh, awesome! When I was working at the bookstore, I had girls sitting in the aisle reading it all the time, and we sold out all of our copies a couple of times. Yay!