TGIF at GReads- This Feature is for Fridays to re-cap the week's post & to answer a question from GReads.
Question: Required Reading: Which book from your school days do you remember reading & enjoying? Is there a book published now that you'd like to see in today's curriculum for kids?
Honestly there wasn't many books I enjoyed reading when I was being forced. one that I really loved reading is Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. I think that it is such a great book and at least every girl should read it. They even made a pretty good move adaptation of it.I also really enjoyed Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. It is not something I would typically read at all but I really loved it and I plan to read it again.
There are so many awesome Young Adult books out now that I would have loved to read in school. I'm not sure if they will ever end up in the curriculum. I like a lot of fantasy so that probably doesn't help either. With that my answer will probably be horrible because I would say things like the Hunger Games, Divergent, City of Bones and all of my favorite YA titles. I feel that probably isn't a great answer because those probably aren't the types of books they want to have in school discussions but one can dream right?
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I haven't read Speak, but I loved Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf. Siddharta is on my tbr pile, but for some reasons I never managed to pick it up. Shame on me!
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OMG Speak is so good!!! I have only read Siddhartha I should try some more of his work :) You should totally read siddhartha! so good! I have had a ton of books on my TBR pile forever no worries. Happy friday :)
DeleteI wish we had to read Speak for school, that would have been a good one. I wans't impressed with our reading requirememnts. Though I agree on THG (which is on my list) and Divergent would be good too. Maybe not as gorey, either.
ReplyDeleteYAh I was lucky with speak. I got to read that freshman year and I really loved it. YAY for HG :) Glad to hear it was on your list!
DeleteI haven't read speak but everyone I know who has says it's awesome. I agree with you that The Hunger Games and Divergent would be great additions. I hope you'll drop by and check out my answers.
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You should totally check it out :) YAY for HG and Divergent eeeps! I will stop by thanks :)
DeleteI loved Siddhartha! But I think I was not in school (or at least high school) when I read it. I have been thinking about reading it again. Thanks for the reminder of a great book.
ReplyDeleteYAY glad to hear it. I read it Freshman year otherwise I probably would have never picked it up. so glad I got to. i so need to read it again! I have the physical book but because it is a classic it is easy to find a free e-book copy of it :) You are welcome happy reading.
DeleteI actually think that The Hunger Games wouldn't be a half-bad book to require in your curriculum. The book can inspire a lot of different discussions because of the cataclysmic events that occur in it.
ReplyDeleteHey I totally agree! You do make a good point :) Maybe someday it will be a school reading book. that would be quite awesome :)
DeleteLoved Speak and the Hunger Games rock..they'd be great for school
ReplyDeleteYAy glad to hear that :) I agree :)
DeleteGreat picks, love! Oh, and you know I totally support THG and Divergent! <3
ReplyDeletehaha Yes I do. I knew you would love my Divergent pick ;) one of my new favorite books thanks to you :) <3
DeleteI love Speak. I recently wrote a Memorable Monday Review on it. I liked To Kill a Mockingbird when I was in school.
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Awesome. Speak is very memorable that is for sure ;) I never read that one in school.. or ever yet. Good to know :) Thanks!
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