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Alright, so as of last Friday I am actually a college graduate! This last class (a three week Jan-Term style course on Interpersonal communications) was fun, easy, and took time out of my otherwise mindlessly boring day. I actually wound up missing two out of the 385 total points that one could obtain. I don't think I've ever scored that high in a class before.

Anyway, that job I had this summer teaching at the horseback riding camp is no longer. Turns out a church friend's granddaughter really needed a job, then the farm started having financial troubles, and before I knew it I was laid off like a factory worker in the midwest. So now I am unemployed, and I seem to lack all the necessary skills to make me hireable. No retail experience?!?!? No waitressing experience?!?!? Who cares that you just spent four years getting a biology degree! I have turned in, up to date, 17 applications. No job. So I am both bored and filled with a sense of worthlessness.

As a result, I have been reading a great deal. Some of the books have been fabulous (like Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler) and some have been less satisfying (turns out, I don't like Elizabeth Peters that much). If you would like a list of my so-far recommended reads, let me know.

I read one of the more recent Pulitzer winners, The Known World, but I actually was uninspired. When I emailed one of the Whit- English professors I deeply respect, this is what he said:
"One thing I've learned along the way is that prizes in the US such as the Pulitzer & the National Book Award don't necessarily mean a dam thing; the publishing / prizegiving world is utterly incestuous and mutual-back-scratching. THe BOOKER Prize, on the other hand, in England, is pretty much a guarantee that the book is terrific."

Since then, I have read one Booker Prize winner, Heat and Dust, and one Booker Prize author, Margaret Atwood. Both were excellent, and I think I may just keep on reading my way through them.

Here's where you come in, O faithful blogreader. What are some of your favorite books? What do you think I should read this summer? Thanks for the input!

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 6:25 AM
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