Getting the ITCH.

My facebook friend tagged me in a note asking me how many good/classic books I've read, out of a hundred total. Turns out I only read 16. OUCH. Some of the books on the list ("Yes" means I've read them):

Lolita
The Color Purple
1984 (Yes)
Great Expectations (Yes)
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Catcher in the Rye (Yes. Ugh. See earlier blog entry.)
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Yes)
The Kite Runner

So anyway, I knew the plots of some of those books, and I was checking them out in greater detail on Wikipedia (I'm an addict to Wiki), and started wanting desperately to check some of those books out. Especially Lolita and The Color Purple. Despite all the issues pro-censorship people love to point out, especially in Lolita (sexual abuse in minors, kidnapping; racism in Color Purple, etc), they sounded really good.

There's a reason why they're famous and why they're regarded as classics. Speaking of which, I'm also feeling a dire need to check out some other, lesser-known novels of a slightly more grownup nature [this is a total euphemism]. Unfortunately, this goal will have to wait...

I am SO itching to do a Celeb Cutie write-up to Gerard Butler. However.....

More important things are on my mind.

FINALS
Trying to find some sort of point in the book The Bluest Eye
Sleep
Choir concert tomorrow!


Ayudame! Please?

Othello, Julius Caesar, and other things.

I love English, but my teacher's tough. She's a fair grader, but she's into details and she assigns a whole lot of work each time we read this or that. Imagine reading both Othello and Julius Caesar at the same time. No need to imagine...she's already ordered my honors class to do them both. In addition to just reading the plays:

• Othello test tomorrow. *frantically goes on Sparknotes.com*
  
• Recite from memory a 25-line soliloquy from either play, complete with props, acting, etc.
• Identify around 40 Othello quotes: Who speaks to whom and what the quote means
• Othello vocabulary test
• Othello character journals analyzing each important character
• Answer around 40 Othello reading comprehension questions
• Also answer around 30-ish Julius Caesar questions, complete with the act, scene and line number you find the answer in.

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