Literary ramblings

I still don't know what to do with this blog. I probably won't be expressing my political or religious views, and my life isn't very exciting, so there won't be any hilarious stories. Mostly when I'm not at school or work, I'm watching TCM (or movies I taped off of TCM previously) or I'm reading.
At the beginning of Summer, book stores put out a huge display of books for required reading by local schools. I loved Summer reading for school. I'm a book worm and in high school, in my honors and AP English classes we had a lot of reading to do. The only problem was that it was more often poems and essays than novels. So while other English classes are reading The Canterbury Tales and The Great Gatsby, my classes were reading and analyzing poems. Anyway, this Summer I saw a sale on classic novels at Barnes & Noble, so I ordered a few books. I bought The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. I've finished both books and am just about to start on The Great Gatsby to catch up on things I've missed. I was impressed by The Awakening, which also included several of her short stories. The pattern was a little boring because the stories were all centered around women who were struggling in some form or another, whether with their husbands' demands or society's. Main Street was also a novel centered on a woman struggling with living in a small town called Gopher Prairie. She lived in a big city in Minnesota before marrying and moving to this small town with her husband. She desperately tries to fit in with the righteous, judicial, small-mined townspeople and tries to make the town more beautiful. After desperation sets in she questions what she is doing there and why she married this small town man. She befriends outsiders in town and finds herself falling in love with a man five years her junior. Eventually, everything works out fine, but it took a long time getting there. The novel is long, but interesting. I would definitely recommend it. Today, I will begin The Great Gatsby which shouldn't take me very long to complete.
Maybe this blog will just be about my thoughts on books, movies and music. I'll stick with what I know. Not that anyone would be reading this anyway...