Assignment 2 - Erin

I love books, though I don't read as often as I wish I could. Over the past twelve months I've only read a few books, but each one has been quite meaningful to me. The first two of the six books that make up this list are on my "desert island" list of reading material. 

-The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Read during winter finals last year and fell in love with every page of it. I immediately connected with the narrator's unique voice and reading it felt like talking to an old friend.)

-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Read on my own terms before we did it in seminar. From the symbolism to the characters to the beautiful language throughout, I fell in love again.)

-Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (That one collection of poetry that everyone and their mother read last year. I really enjoyed the raw emotion found in all the poems, it felt very much written from experience.)

-American Gods by Neil Gaiman (I must confess that I couldn't finish this one. I just could not empathize with the characters and that made it not enjoyable. Life's too short to read books you don't like.)

-Whiskey Words and a Shovel I by r.h. Sin (Another collection of poetry, similar to Milk and Honey. Enjoyed it, but it was written from a much darker place than I've ever been, so I couldn't relate to it as much.)

-Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (My current read. A sort of memoir about Japanese Internment during WWII, a subject very near to my heart. I highly recommend it if you'd like to learn more about this commonly "forgotten" part of history.)