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>>892241
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Education/Major: Starting Book and Media Studies at University of Toronto, switching into Hardware Engineering
Types of books you read: "Classics," memoirs, international literature (bonus points for magical realism), American lit, nonfiction about computers

Age: 18
Gender: Female
Education/Major: Starting Book and Media Studies at University of Toronto, switching into Hardware Engineering
Types of books you read: "Classics," memoirs, World literature (bonus points for magical realism), American lit, nonfiction about computers

Sophie Mol from "The God of Small Things"
Gatsby but only in "The Great Gatsby"
Baby Suggs in "Beloved"
Blue, the dog from "The Sound and the Fury."
Blanche Dubois from "A Streetcar Called Desire"

While you guys have this thread, I shall sit here, serving tea to friends

>>849951
In twelfth grade IB, I read The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, The Metamorphosis (Kafka), Lysistrata, A Streetcar Named Desire, some Eliot poems, some Orwell essays, The Lion and the Jewel, Hamlet,The Importance of Being Earnest and Fifth Business. In eleventh grade, we just read some Yeats and Dionne Brand poems, Othello, Like Water for Chocolate and The House of the Spirits.

It was ok.

>>834609
Wow. That sucks.
My senior year's reading list comprised of:
1. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima
2. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
3. Lysistrata - Aristophanes
4. Hamlet - Shakespeare
5. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
6. The Lion and The Jewel - Wole Soyinka
7. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
8. Some Orwell Essays
9. Some Eliot poems

It looks okay, OP.
Garage sales are great for books. So are flea markets where people sell old things. Thrift stores can be checked out year-round.

I got a beautiful leather-bound dictionary (it's a 1988 edition, but it doesn't matter to me) last year at a garage sale for a dollar.

This line will make it clear whose great philosophical principle I had accepted and was following and had been groping for, long before I heard the name "Aristotle."

>>815949
She has probably already read Anna Karenina as well. Get her one of your favourite books instead of one you know nothing about.


If you have time, you could get her a short favourite story of yours (the length of The Old Man and the Sea, The Stranger or Of Mice and Men) and annotate the pages.

>>815916
>has never read Lolita

I am waiting for an email.

Get her a journal or a beautiful edition of your favourite book as a child.
It will warm her heart.

Love by Toni Morrison

Ok book. I read it in ninth grade for an English class.

Book and Media Studies, but I am changing into Economics or Network Engineering.

>>815825
Not unless you want me to be. Hit me up on /fa/

The God of Small Things.
I still don't know what happened to Sophie Mol.

>>815789
Left centrist here. Let's get married.

Yes, but that's what they call "Magical realism."

>>777222
I think there's more to a book than plot. Is that what you're referring to?

Also, if you want to judge the books by their covers.

A friend and I exchanged our favourite books for the summer instead of buying all-new ones.
In what order would you rank these books?
Which would you suggest first and why?

Also, discussions about book exchange and summer reading.