A Return to Reading

After taking a transcendental mini-trip to the glorious mountains, I came home full of disappointment that I could not live among the trees here at home. I was disgusted at the prospect of watching a pointless TV program, and I felt the need to open my mind a little and walk around in the many unfurnished rooms of my imagination. I opened up the fragrant pages of Brave New World and finished what I had started only two days earlier. What a wonderful novel, I highly recommend it. After finishing that, I searched through my bookshelves (which are alphebatized and entered into a spreadsheet, hehe) and decided that now would be a good time, after having just watched "Into the Wild", to read the book that inspired it by Jon Krakauer. Ever since discovering the life of Chris McCandless in my English class, I was fascinated and enthralled by his journey and his ideals. It was hardly challenging for me to embark on this short book, and it was a wonderful experience. I started reading it at 7:00 on Wednesday night, and it was finished by 12:00 the next morning (that included about nine hours of restful sleep, mind you). After consuming this extraordinary story of survival, I decided to continue my journey into the mind of McCandless by reading one of his favorite books, Dr. Zhivago. I'm a little more than a hundred pages in, and I'm loving it. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have returned to reading after a few months that were littered with other mundane activites that inevitably come with high school life, and I am happy to be back. By the way, if you, my dear reader, are ever in the mood for a four way connection between some great books, read On the Road, Anthem, Into the Wild, and Walden. Your mind may tire a little, but it is so worth it to find the plethora of parallels between these wonderful pieces of literature!