When I first started college, I began reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. That only lasted about 2 weeks, when suddenly, school work started taking over my life. Seeing as it was my first semester of college, I was still figuring out how to balance my time, so most of the free time I had was dedicated to things other than doing more reading.

During my second semester, I began doing research with one of my professors. Now that I was doing research, I had much less free time, and again, the free time I did have I spent doing other things that were not reading. The last thing I wanted to do during my free time was read, seeing as I did a lot of reading when I did research,  homework,  and studied.

Fast forward three years, and the last time I read a book that was not a textbook was those first two weeks of Freshman year.

Now that I am finally finishing up my undergraduate studies, I can’t wait to start reading for the sake of enjoying a good book again. I have compiled a decent sized list of books I hope to finish reading this summer. Here they are in the order I plan on reading them:

1. The Seven Storey Mountain – Thomas Merton
2. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
3. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander – Thomas Merton (I have read parts of this)
4. On the Road – Jack Kerouac (it’s embarrassing admitting I haven’t read this yet…)
5. Belief about the Self – Neil Feit (this is a critical analysis of philosophical topics related to Philosophy of Mind, and I have read parts of it, but I would like to read it in its entirety. The only reason this is last on my list is because I think you could argue that this could be classified as a textbook. With that being said, I am really looking forward to reading this.)

jonnale Uncategorized