Imprimis Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 I really enjoy the "What are you reading now?" type threads on the general board. I have picked up so many great book recommendations for myself from those threads. My daughter is an avid reader and we are always looking for new book suggestions for her. So, what is your high-schooler reading now? My dd is currently reading: "Cyrano de Bergerac" for our World Literature study (I am using many recommendations from Eliana's lists) A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens (this is her independent reading choice) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in MO Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 My dd is a Dickens nut. She has acquired many nice hardbound copies of his books. We found a beautiful copy of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov at Goodwill yesterday. She and her sister have both read that book and loved it. She recently received Little Dorrit as a belated birthday present. She hasn't been reading anything lately because the Bible Bee was consuming all her free time through 9/12. Now she's beginning to get back into the flow of her normal life; she'll be picking up a good book really soon. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeFL Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 I wouldn't say he's loving it, but not hating it, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyinNNV Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Wuthering Heights-Chapter 8 She has predicted that the book will end with Heathcliff saving Catherine from some terrible event. They will fall in love and the book will end with their arms wrapped around each other. :D Holly (Maybe the prediction is inspired by the book she just finished,The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennW in SoCal Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 DS is reading Robert Heinlein books for fun. He just finished Citizen of the Galaxy which he really enjoyed and is about to start The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. He is going to start tackling The Illiad in a few weeks, the Fagles translation. There is an audio version of it, which, in spite of it being abriged, has good reviews. I figure we'd enjoy listening to sections of it together and reading the missing sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSHS Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 My DD's trying to get back into reading. When she started secondary school she stopped reading completely so currently she's reading Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (if you don't allow Harry Potter, this'll be the same more than likely) Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah (again ;D) The Curius Incident by Mark Haddon The History of the Ancient World by SWB (she hasn't started this yet, we've been thrown off track a little) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in AL Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 DD15 is reading 1066 for history. She's almost finished. Then she'll start The Once and Future King by T.H. White. She's also reading The Stand by Steven King for fun. DD13 is reading The Once and Future King, and for fun: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Simplicity by Mark Solomon (A critique on the Christian music industry), and Fight Club. She just finished Body Piercing Saved my Life another critique on the Christian music industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmom4 Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 reading Watership Down and loved it. He is also working through C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy. He is on Book 2, Perelandra. I'm wondering if he would like some Dickens...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Dd 15 is reading Moby Dick for pleasure. Dd 13 is reading Pilgrim's Progress and Frankenstein for school. She loves Frankenstein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 My son is reading King Solomon's Ring for science. For history/geography, he just finished reading Habibi, is most of the way through Zlata's Diary, is slowly picking away at Penny Candy, and is partway through The Householder for history/geography. (Most of those were supposed to be read this summer, but he procrastinated so much that now he is having to cram them together with his normal school stuff.) He's reading Alexandria (Lindsey Davis) for fun. And as soon as we finish The Hobbit (another few days), we're going to start Gilgamesh. We began great books with just reading The Hobbit for fun, while we got the other subjects up to speed. -Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langfam Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 We use the MODG syllabus. Just finished the Illiad. Now on Antigone. Selected poems from The Harp and Laurel Wreath next. King Solomon's Ring for Natural History. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Really?? He just finished 3 of Edith Nesbits books..Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of an Amulet. Now he is reading The Wind In the Willows and he has Pinnochio on his shelf. LOL....I think he wants to stay a kid another year...especially after last years heavy and depressing 20th century books. I am glad he is reading these "classics" which I have read to him all through his childhood. I guess that is why they are "classic." He is also reading Sophie's World for school.... ~~Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jananc Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 DS 15 just finished Beowulf and will begin Dante's Inferno tomorrow. He's reading A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 DS just started Les Miserables today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imprimis Posted September 21, 2009 Author Share Posted September 21, 2009 We found a beautiful copy of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov at Goodwill yesterday. She and her sister have both read that book and loved it. What a great find! Dd and I love scouring thrift and antique stores for good buys on hardbound classics and poetry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imprimis Posted September 22, 2009 Author Share Posted September 22, 2009 My son is reading King Solomon's Ring for science. -Nan I've seen this book mentioned quite a few times. Is it a good fit with biology? I am including some real-life type books for my dd to read along with her Exploring Life text. She is reading Thoreau's The Maine Woods now (which, frankly, she finds boring...maybe that's why I forgot to list it in my op :glare:). I am reading it for the first time and find it beautifully written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontier Mom Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Mine just finished Don Quixote and starting Paradise Lost. He is reading America, The Last Best Hope for history and starting The Narrative of Frederick Douglass for Lit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Crime and Punishment for literature. Some fantasy titles for fun. The Aeneid in Latin!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imprimis Posted September 22, 2009 Author Share Posted September 22, 2009 :) The Aeneid in Latin!!! Wow! That's awesome. We're still pluggling away at our Latin, but not yet to the point where dd could read anything major in it. I'm wondering if he would like some Dickens...... DD is enjoying A Tale of Two Cities and both my dd and ds enjoyed Great Expectations as a read aloud. I think he wants to stay a kid another year...especially after last years heavy and depressing 20th century books. I am glad he is reading these "classics" which I have read to him all through his childhood. I guess that is why they are "classic." ~~Faithe I think that's wonderful, too! Dd 15 is reading Moby Dick for pleasure. Ok, that's just impressive. I still haven't been able to motivate myself to read it for my WEM. Ds, on the other hand, picked it up a few nights ago and has read a couple of chapters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma23peas Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 14 year old is reading Count of Monte Cristo, 5000 Year Leap, and the Dragon and the Raven (Henty)....the last being his "for fun" book... 11 year old is reading Gentle's Holler, another in the Dragons in our Midst series, and finishing Diary of Anne Frank. 10 year old is reading another DIOM (they love those!), The Borrowers Afield, and Calvin & Hobbes... Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennW in SoCal Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 The Aeneid in Latin!!! How very cool is that?? !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karenciavo Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Just finished The Metamorphosis (Kafka) and is now reading The Stranger by Camus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anissarobert Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 DD is reading The Aeneid for great books, and an assortment of fantasy titles for fun. (I don't keep up.) We are doing Augustine's Confessions next for great books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 DD15 just finished 1984 tonight. She also recently re-read Animal Farm and Fahrenheit 451. She's on a "dystopian society" kick. In between, she looks at interior design books. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Dd15 is reading the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, first series. For school, she is reading a book of American Short Stories for LLATL Gold. Ds13 is just finishing Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck. We are reading Sophie's World together. (I keep asking if we can stop this because I keep thinking we are not getting much out of it and I hate to waste reading time- and they keep insisting I keep reading it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy in Richmond Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 My dd is currently reading The Great Gatsby for school and Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid for fun, along with several Chaim Potok novels. Oh, and she tells me she's currently re-reading Flowers for Algernon. ~Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 My senior just read Things Fall Apart for his cc course and Go Tell It On the Mountain in his effort to read books from the list on collegeboard of 100 books every high school student should have read. His next books are An Artist of the Floating World (doing a World Lit course from Hewitt besides the cc Composition course) and he's thinking of picking up Walden. My sophomore also read Things Fall Apart and will read An Artist of the Floating World. For fun he's currently reading Xenocide. He loves sci-fi and is just picking interesting sci-fi books from our library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 My junior recently read The Great Gatsby and Beowulf. This week she is reading SIr Gawain and the Green Knight. For pleasure, she is reading the SUe Grafton mysteries and she is on D is for (I don't remember). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusanAR Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 My 16 yo ds, For literature: Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun For fun: Enemy of God (The second book in Bernard Cornwell's Arthur trilogy) He has read so many Arthur books :001_smile: - a comparison paper would make a great Jr. or Sr. project, don't you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie in AR Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendall Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins How Shall We Then Live by Shaeffer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgm Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 My teen is reading: The Pretties by Scott Westerfield Red Planet by Robert Heinlein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The other Kimberly Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 17 yo Boy: Tha Call - Os Guiness Pride & Prejudice Eusebius' Church History City of God Augustine 13 YO Boy: Mere Christianity Picturesque Tale of Progress Beowulf - Ian Serralliar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luanne Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Crime and Punishment for literature. Some fantasy titles for fun. The Aeneid in Latin!!! Crime and Punishment and the Aeneid (but not in Latin). She wants to try to read harder books. I am hoping she will be successful. For relaxation she has been reading through the Guardian's of GaHoole series. She loves owls so she is really enjoying this series. She also is working on War and Peace and Middlemarch. I guess when she decided to try harder classics she decided to go gung ho! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison_B Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 He just finished "Anthem" by Ayn Rand and he started reading "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncmomo3 Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 The Silmarillion-Tolkien Sense and Sensibility- Austin The Hound of the Baskervilles- Doyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in GA Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 dd(15) is reading Hamlet and then will start John Adams by David McCullough ds(16) just finished The Alchemist and is beginning a bunch of Poe Tales, then he will read The Scarlett Letter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmonyartmom Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Almost 16 year old: For school: Just finished Pride and Prejudice and is now reading Twelfth Night. For fun: The Darwin Awards 14 year old: For school: Just finished Kon-Tiki and is now reading Twelfth Night. For fun: The Google Story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 For some reason my ds#2 just doesn't do much reading for pleasure. So...I have to assign reading. Right now he is reading The Law by Bastiat. In the day we are living, I think it is a highly appropriate book. We've had LOTs of discussion and found lots of illustrations in the news of today. Highly recommend it. I was quite surprised to find that he wrote it before Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto. But for fun he is reading P.G. Wodehouse - although he's been on the same book for about 3 months now ;-( I no longer believe the adage that by modeling reading your children will become readers - just didn't happen. here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Ds in ps had to read Paul Coelho's The Alchemist over the summer. Not sure what else will be assigned. Sigh. He's so not a reader, and misses out on the point of literature totally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaMere Academy Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Silas Marner by George Eliot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 He also just finished Island by Aldous Huxley and is just starting One Two Three Infinity by George Gamow. Math Science kid here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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