A Shameful Post

     I don't want to come off as neglectful in regard to my homework, so I'll be honest about my reading life. After finishing Invisible Cities, I decided to take a small reading break. As most of you know, 'small reading breaks' have a strange tendency to go from a day or so long to a week long... It isn't as though I haven't read anything, but what I've been reading is far from a novel. My literary intake has consisted of Peanuts, Mad (the good ol' black and white ones), Little Lulu, and Tintin. I like to read all of the comic books and graphic novels in my room every few months, so that's what I've been doing. Over the break, When we were supposed to fill out a reading log, I debated over whether or not Ms. Reir would find it to be acceptable if I recorded the thousands of comic book pages I had read. I ended up reading something or other (I really can't remember what I read) and decided to record that instead.
     I'm unsure of what we can write about for the blogs this year. Last year, I'd write about the titles or books and billboards I'd read. I remember Ms. Reir saying that the blog would be about our Independent Reading Books, so, I've been curious as to whether or not we're allowed to just write about our reading lives, must we write about novels...? This is not en excuse to slack off, I love novels and read a good handful of them. It's often hard to find a book that lives up to my standards and I don't go to bookstores enough. A few times a month, I'll stumble along a fantastic book, but, really, it happens too rarely. My dad has some very well-read friends that suggest novels to me, but the books that they suggest are often hard to obtain... If books were an abundance in my life, I'd read them constantly. Everything on my book-shelfs has been at least twice and all of my comics at least four times. My parents are always willing to take me to a bookstore, but it's still hard to find something that I actually want to read. And, due to my habit of refusing to leave the house during the weekend, the time that I have for purchasing books is dwindled down even farther.
     I was thinking that it would be nice if we had a list of some sort where students could suggest books to one another. I'd really appreciate some suggestions in the comments or some sites that could give me some recommendations. I just really, really, really need a good book, one that I can get lost in...