My Summer Reading Challenge!

All right! This summer, I'm challenging myself to read some classics of literature. As you can tell from the picture, on my reading list is Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

I'm a huge fan of Lord of the Rings. I've watched the movies (and all extended cuts – 11 hours of pure magical Middle Earth!) but I've never acquainted myself with Tolkien's actual work. Currently I'm about seventy pages into the Fellowship of the Ring. So far I'm loving it! Tolkien had such a crisp, simple way of writing.

One of my favorite lines of dialogue from Gandalf in the movie!

As for Fahrenheit 451, I've started it many times, but never actually finished the book. (It's sort of heavy to me – my mind needs a lot of time to process Ray Bradbury's incredible words.)
To Kill a Mockingbird is another book I've started (somewhat recently) but still haven't finished yet. Now that I've announced it, hopefully I will have more drive to finish reading both of these!

And also, I thought I'd put this in as a sidenote – as for more 'fun' reading, recently I have discovered the epicness of Doctor Who novels.
. . . 'Epicness' is totally a word, spellcheck. YOU DON'T CONTROL ME.

And now my life is complete.

Actually, my first encounter with a Doctor Who novel was Only Human, by Gareth Roberts. Gah, that book. Absolutely fantastic!! It's a story with the Ninth Doctor, my first and most favorite Cristopher Eccleston.

Prisoner of the Daleks, by Trevor Baxendale, is a story with the Tenth Doctor. I really enjoyed the story, though, just a warning, there are some scenes of strong violence. It's called Prisoner of the Daleks for a reason.

Dun-dun-DUN!!

So, grab yourself some chocolate raisins and curl up on the couch with a good book! Let me know if you have any more suggestions of classic books.