Summer Reading List

There are a lot of books that I want to make sure that I have a chance to read this summer, so I thought that I would create this blog so that all of you can see what I am reading and thinking about while reading during the summer months. I wanted to start off with this wish list (there are a lot of books that are on this list and I don't know if I will be able to read them all, so that is why I wanted to create this list so that I don't forget which books I wanted to read):

(These are not in any particular order that I am going to read them, it is just the list. I will post pictures when I actually write the blog for the book as I am reading it!)

- Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters by Jane Austen & Ben H. Winters
I want to read this one because I read Pride & Prejudice & Zombies and since I am a HUGE Jane Austen fan, I really enjoy it when people put their take on her works out into the literary universe.

- Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford
This book looks interesting is because, again, it's about Jane Austen but this time, she's a vampire. That I find freaking hilarious. Jane Austen as a vampire! This goes along with similiar books that I have read in the past (Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange) and I find it funny that people are taking characters, and now Jane Austen herself, and making them vampires or zombies or sea monster.

Going along with the theme of vampires and great ficitional and non-fictional characters, the next two books fall into this catagory.
- Little Vampire Women by Louisa May Alcott & Lynn Messina. The original Little Woman is one of my favorite stories and the fact that someone has put them into vampiric roles is very entertaining. I can't wait to see what sort of story this comes out to be.
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (the same author of P&P&Zombies). I mean, really, one of our greatest presidents as a vampire hunter. That has got to be a great story!!
The next few books I have already done book talks on in class so I will just list them:
- Fallen by Lauren Kate
- Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
- Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

And finally, two books that were inspired by a student (because she was reading one of these books and it looked so good that I had to go and get both written by the author)
- The Bonfire of Berlin & Let Me Go both by Helga Schneider. These books are about a young girl who was abandoned by her mother during WWII so that her mother could become a guard in the Nazi army at Auchwitz (a concentration camp). Thank you Maria G., for finding these two books for me!

I know, it's a long list and, again, I don't know if I'll get through them all, but I'm going to try. And, like any good reader, I'm going to maintain this blog so that you can see my thinking as I go through these books! Wish me luck and have a good summer!! Happy reading!