Writing to the internet about reading things seems a bit incongruous

(Or: Another Post About Books*)

Currently reading: Mockingjay (has anyone else? Or am I the last person in the world to because I wait for any and all new books to be available at the library instead of just buying them? I know opinions are greatly mixed, but that's what makes the discussion interesting.)

Currently should be reading: The Importance of Being Earnest. (oh hey, school. It's a classic play, but Mockingjay definitely takes priority.)

Assorted rest of post which is still kind of relevant to the aforementioned theme:

We had to read a lot of Shakespeare in fifth grade REACH**, albeit cut-down children's versions (also meaning we'd get to waste 2 days of class watching the filmed version***, or better, take a day-long field trip to watch the play). Hamlet was freaking awesome from what I can remember, as was Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream, both way better than the plays I've read in their entirety, suggesting that I should read them. Which I'm *planning* on doing; I've been *planning* on reading a lot more classic lit than YA for a long time, but, as the asterisks note, the *plans* are of a tentative nature. WAY TOO MANY COMMAS IN THAT SENTENCE BLERG.

I don't know exactly why I've made these plans-- YA is (more often than not) captivating and well-written and I'm still within the age group the genre targets, but there's something alluringly off-the-beaten-path about the title "classic". Reading books other people aren't, haven't, and are likely not going to. (I'm like a literary hipster, someone please stop me.) Anyway:

Footnotes!

* This would've been better as the actual title of the post rather than the subtitle, on second thought.

** The reward for being in the 'gifted' program, I suppose. That, and we were deprived of recess. */long withstanding rage*

*** Off topic, but Dumbledore was in the film version of The Count of Monte Cristo. (This was not lost on us; everyone being significantly more interested in HP than the novel on which the movie was based. Poor, hardworking English actors. In America you'll always be associated with Hogwarts professors.)