Top Ten Tuesday: Back To School Freebie
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This week is: Back To School Freebie .
. 10 books I read in high school
It’s been a while since I was in high school I won’t tell you how long
but a long time. I picked 10 books I read in high school, these books are the
ones that stuck with me for some reason Half of them I liked and the other half
I didn’t really care for. Not that they aren’t good books because they are but
personally at that time in my life they weren’t books that did anything for me.
Who knows I might go back read them again.
*This list is no specific order*
*Click book title or series for
Goodreads link
“It may be
unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change
the course of a whole lifetime."
Amir is
the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashtuns.
Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a Hazara, a despised and impoverished
caste. Their uncommon bond is torn by Amir's choice to abandon his friend
amidst the increasing ethnic, religious, and political tensions of the dying
years of the Afghan monarchy, wrenching them far apart. But so strong is the
bond between the two boys that Amir journeys back to a distant world, to try to
right past wrongs against the only true friend he ever had.
The
unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy
boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a
beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being
destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the
possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over
sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
A sweeping
story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of
the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner
is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind
classic.
A collection of stories, whose characters
give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border.
The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments
of infinite and intimate wisdom.
Told
through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young
sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and
the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely
accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his
name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a
kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope.
In a love story that
evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin
has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are
unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.
The love
that the play presents between Othello and Desdemona is so strong that it would
have overcome all these differences were it not for the words and actions of
Othello's standard-bearer, Iago, who hates Othello and sets out to destroy him
by destroying his love for Desdemona.
As Othello
succumbs to Iago's insinuations that Desdemona is unfaithful, fascination—which
dominates the early acts of the play—turns to horror, especially for the
audience. We are confronted by spectacles of a generous and trusting Othello in
the grip of Iago's schemes; of an innocent Desdemona, who has given herself up
entirely to her love for Othello only to be subjected to his horrifying verbal
and physical assaults, the outcome of Othello's mistaken convictions about her
faithlessness.
She is only fourteen, he is only a few years
older. Their families are bitter enemies, sworn to hatred. Yet Romeo and Juliet
meet and fall passionately in love. Defying their parents' wishes, they are
secretly married, but their brief happiness is shattered by fate.
A 1897 Gothic
horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and
established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel
tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so
that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle
between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van
Helsing.
‘Alone with the dead! I dare not go
out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window’
When
Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of
a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his
castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an
unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young
woman’s neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent
arrival of his ‘Master’.
In the
ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined
group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre,
probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating
dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
Troy
Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson
has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face
pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to
the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world
Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is
making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife
and son he understands less and less.
Stowe, a Connecticut-born
teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured
the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the
stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality
of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as
destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
Janie
Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a
woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny. As a young woman, who
is fair-skinned with long hair, she expects more out of life, but comes to
realize she has to find out about life 'fuh theyselves' (for herself), just as
people can only go-to-God for themselves.
An
enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told
in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness,
fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely
independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages
and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose.
The centers
the story around a young African American girl named Pecola who grows up during
the years following the Great Depression in Lorain, Ohio. Due to her dark skin
color, Pecola gets taunted for her appearance as the members of her community
associate beauty with "whiteness". She ultimately develops an
inferiority complex, which fuels her desire for blue eyes.
Pecola
prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as
all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year
the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does
change- in painful, devastating ways.
What its
vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning,
and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Tony
Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of
American fiction.
4 comments
I like what you said about the books not necessarily being bad, but that they didn't do anything for you at the time you read them. I feel that way too about a lot of the books that didn't stand out for me or I didn't care for when I first read them. Heck, just thinking of Pride and Prejudice. I didn't care for it when I first read it, but years later I loved it. I loved The Kite Runner. It wasn't around when I was in high school, but it's definitely deserving of a modern classic label.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! Thank you for sharing!
I feel like a lot of the books I read at school weren't as enjoyable as they should have been! I have enjoyed them more since re-reading!
ReplyDeleteI had to read "Uncle Tom`s Cabin" when I was 11 or 12 and I kinda hated it. If I were to reread it now I`d probably love it, but back then I was too young to properly enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteCarmen / Carmen`s Reading Corner
I read The Bluest Eye and Romeo and Julie in high school as well.
ReplyDeleteI may have read Dracula, too. I can't quite remember if I read it or watched a very old movie based on that story. Haha!
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