Not literally (although my ten year reunion is this year, so I will be back shortly) but I mean with my reading.
I read way many more young adult books now than I did when I was in high school. I read a ton, then, but it was always adult books that I stole off of my mom's bookshelf.
Recently, I had a conversation with a few friends about books they read in high school, and of course the conversation turned to what we all had to read in out English classes. I realized that my English classes must have been reading some interesting things (AP, nuff said), so I hadn't read a lot of the "normal" classics that weren't touched in my college English courses (the many, many that I took.)
So my quest is to read all those classics from high school English that I never read while actually in high school. I just read A Tale of Two Cities for the first time (loved it, although a little wordy, but what did I expect with Dickens?) And now I'm reading 1984.
Did you read YA in high school?
What other classic suggestions do you have for me that you read in high school?
Published on June 13, 2011 07:46