Top Ten Books on my Summer TBR List!

So... it's not actually a Tuesday. It's a Wednesday. But I can't resist any sort of list-making, especially not TBR list-making.

This summer I want to concentrate on two things: my Classics Club reads and my school's summer reading list. For the reading list, you're supposed to read a minimum of three books from the twenty-two fiction and non-fiction titles available, but I want to see if I can read them all. Crazy? Yes. Possible? Maybe. There's also the Moby-Dick and The Odyssey read-a-longs that are definitely going to be fun.

So without further ado, here's the list:

1. The Odyssey by Homer: Allie at A Literary Odyssey is hosting a read-a-long for this, and I just can't wait to dive in! This is one of those books that I'd always wanted to have read but I'd never gotten around to it, mostly because I could never decide on which translation to read.

2. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: This book is considered to be one of "the Great American Novels" so of course I have to see what this book has to offer. Also, the edition that I ordered is gorgeous, and I'm looking forward to holding and looking at this book almost as much as I'm looking forward to reading it. Reading in Bed is hosting a read-a-long and it looks great!

3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien: I can't believe that I haven't read this series/giant super-book yet. It looks pretty epic!

4. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare: Hopefully I can finish this in time to see the Joss Whedon adaptation before it goes out of theaters.

5. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: This is one of my favorite books, and every time I re-read it, I pick up on something new. The movie is coming out soon, and I might as well brush up on the details before I see it!

6. Looking for Alaska by John Green: I loved An Abundance of Katherines and The Fault in Our Stars and I'm excited to read more of his work.

7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: This is another one of those books that with every re-read I find a new detail to laugh about. I might read the entire series this summer (if there's time).

8. Emma by Jane Austen: This is going to be my first Jane Austen! I'm probably going to read it during Austen in August at Roof Beam Reader.

9. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer: I'm going to be honest here and say that I don't really know anything about this book, except that it's good, and I want to see what all the fuss is about!

10. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare: Once again, I want to see what all the fuss is about. I think the movie's coming out in August and if I want to see it, then I'm going to have to read the book. I'm crossing my fingers that it's as great as people are saying that it is!

Luckily, a lot of these books overlap between my summer reading and the Classics Club. I can't wait to get started!

The Beginning

 It's taken so long to actually write this first post. In my wish to make every detail perfect, I've written and edited the same three sentences over and over again for about half an hour, and I'm still not sure about them.

I'd been thinking about starting a blog for the past couple months. But, I had absolutely no idea what to write about. While spending an afternoon browsing the "booktubing" community on YouTube, I realized that it would be perfectly fine and dandy if I talked about books on my blog. It was so exciting watching the YouTubers’ videos, and it made me want to jump into the conversations with my own thoughts.

 Flash forward a week or two, after I’d read and researched book blogs that I loved, and it was decided that I would start a blog of my own.

 I don’t want to limit myself to just books here, though. Like the title suggests, I guess I’ll write about whatever takes my fancy. Hopefully I can also stop being so much of a perfectionist/pain in the butt about my writing along the way.

I'm really excited and I've got some things in the works for the next few months. As cliche as it may sound, this is definitely going to be a learning journey.