One of my favorite summer activities is reading. It's the time I can catch up on all of the books I plan to read during the academic year but don't have time to due to classes, work, etc. Sometimes I don't even read new books, I just reread some of my favorites. :p For instance, I just finished rereading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, because I absolutely LOVE the series (aside from Harry Potter, of course!). For those of you who don't know about the series (or the movie, for that matter), it's about the adolescent adventures of demigods, or "half-bloods", to save the world while integrating ancient Greek mythology into modern Western civilization. It may be a little under my suggested age group, but I don't care. I love adventure and fantasy and science fiction books. There's five books in the Percy Jackson series, and it became so popular that the author, Rick Riordan, has expanded the series with another set of characters but with similar concepts. This series specifically sparked my interest in Greek mythology, so I decided I'm going to read The Odyssey, The Iliad, and a standard Greek mythology book that I bought last summer! I have quite a list too:
1. Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan (5)
2. Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan (2)
3. Eragon series, Christopher Paolini (3)
4. Greek mythology (3)
5. More that I can't even think of naming right now..
So yes, i have quite a bit to do! Unfortunately, my two summer classes mostly consist of reading, so I've only been able to get one book finished. But! I just received these books in the mail from Amazon, so hopefully it will encourage me to read them on what spare time I do have! :D
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