Pre-thoughts to "A Lesson Before Dying"

This summer I will be reading Ernest Gaines most recent book, A Lesson Before Dying. Ernest Gaines has published eight fictional books, and A Lesson Before Dying won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award. I chose this book because the title stuck out as I looked over the possibilities, and the review from LibraryThing.com just made me even more interested. The book is a 227 page novel written in 1993. I am very excited to begin reading. I hope it is an interesting book that draws the reader in and brings the story to life instead of one of many books that just seem to drone on with no point or little excitement. Most of all, I hope A Lesson Before Dying will be a book that I can learn from or a book that will jump-start my interest in a new genre.

LibraryThing.com

Yesterday, I started the last book in the “Heir” series.  Just to refresh my memory of the occurrences up to that point, I went to the author’s website.  I was able to catch up on all that had happened, and while I was there I discovered LibraryThing.com.  It is a neat website where you can catalog your book collection.  I used it to create a list of the books I have read.  It shows all the books details such as the publisher, copyright date, and author.  You can even add your own information such as tags, reviews, and date you finished the book.

Summer Plans

Thursday was the last day of school, and I am really excited to be out for summer.  I have many exciting events planned that I can’t wait to begin.  In June I will be going on a family vacation.  We will stay the first week in Las Vegas, NV, probably going to shows and touring the city.  For the next week we are heading to Sedona, AZ.  The day after we get back from Sedona, I will hop on a bus to take a 1032 mile trip to Northern Tier in Minnesota and Canada.  Northern Tier is a Boy Scout High Adventure Camp where we canoe fifty-five miles on the boundary waters between the United States and Canada.  It will be my second National High Adventure camp of the three in existence, the first being Sea Base this past Spring Break.  Sometime after Northern Tier, I will visit my grandparents at their house in Illinois for a week.  Finally, I will finish off my summer by attending Marching Camp, where the band will practice the basics of marching, and we will begin working on “West Side Story,” which will be our show for the upcoming year.