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5 Books I’m Definitely Going to Finish This Summer

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5 Books I’m Definitely Going to Finish This Summer
Taylor Brianne

I love to read. When I was in high school I read all the time. Now that I’m in college, I don’t read as much as I used to because I’m so short on time, but I still love it.

There’s nothing better than sitting down in a comfy chair with a good book. I have so many books I haven’t read it’s criminal. I’m definitely that moron who has a thousand books I haven’t read but, for some reason, I keep buying more. That’s why this summer I’m going to stop buying and start reading.

Here are five books I’ve had on the shelf for too long.

1.The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien


I’m kind of cheating with this one because I’m at least half way through it already. But I’m putting it on my list because I’ve been reading it for at least a year now. I’ve been reading the entire Lord of the Rings series for at least two years. Maybe three, if you count The Hobbit. I have got to finish this series once and for all. It’s time.



2. Allegiant by Veronica Roth


The final installment in the Divergent series, this is another series I’ve been reading for years. I read Divergent and Insurgent right as they came out. My dad brought the first one home from work with him and told me a coworker told me I would like it. She was so right. I read the first two books in just days.

However, it seems I read them so fast that by the time Allegiant came out I had forgotten a lot of what had happened in the first two installments. I keep telling myself I’ll re-read the first two but I just haven’t given myself time. Well, it’s time now. I’m not letting myself out of this house without finishing the series.



3. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

This is another book that I’m already a few pages into. I got it used and stained at a library book sale this year. Although I’m not very far into it, Rainbow Rowell is one of my favorite authors so I’m determined to finish it.

It’s about Lincoln, who works as a sort of email monitor at a news company. If emails are flagged with curse words or anything inappropriate, they’re sent to him. When he starts getting the emails sent back and forth between two coworkers he’s never met, he doesn’t turn them in, opting to be entertained by their silly messages instead. I can’t wait to find out what happens.



4. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins


We all know the Hunger Games series. I’m a little ashamed to say I’m this far behind in the game, but at least I’m determined to finish the series. I think I have a problem with just not reading the last book in trilogies. I read Catching Firemy senior year of high school and I’ve owned Mockingjay for a least a year.

This is it: 2016 is the year I finish the Hunger Games series.



5. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan


This one is more like an entire project. The first novel in a 14 book series, I could be getting myself in over my head. It’s a fantasy series my mom has been reading since before I was born, and she’s been encouraging me to read them for a few years. Hopefully I’ll someday finish them all, but I figured I’d better start small and just aim for finishing the first book.



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