Book Bucket List by Katie Roach https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1 Made with good vibes en-us 2019-01-11 20:09:34 UTC 2026-01-21 04:15:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Vox by Christina Dalcher katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319859047 -2018
-336
-Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.

On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial--this can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her.

This is just the beginning.

Soon women can no longer hold jobs. Girls are no longer taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words a day, but now women only have one hundred to make themselves heard.

But this is not the end.

For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.]]> 2019-01-11 20:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319859047 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319859366 -1850
-272p
-it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. As she struggles to raise her rambunctious daughter, Pearl, on her own, the father of her child is revealed and is shown to be experiencing severe guilt. Through the scorn and judgment of the citizens and Roger Chillingworth (Hester's husband), the two decide to remain together.
-I think its important to know about the classics ]]> 2019-01-11 20:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319859366 Looking For Alaska by John Green katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319859639 -225p
-2005
-Before. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for Culver Creek boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called “The Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including clever, beguiling, and self-destructive Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
- I like John Green books

]]> 2019-01-11 20:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319859639 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319859958 -1953
-256p
-Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.]]> 2019-01-11 20:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319859958 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319860246 -288p
-1932
-]]> 2019-01-11 20:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319860246 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319860435 -1997
-320p
-I feel like everyone has read it or watched the movies and I haven't so I should read it.
-Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility.
All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley - a great big swollen spoiled bully. Harry's room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years.
But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to an incredible place that Harry - and anyone who reads about him - will find unforgettable.
For it's there that he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic in everything from classes to meals, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him... if Harry can survive the encounter.
]]> 2019-01-11 20:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/319860435 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/320843830 -1988
-Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.
-208p]]> 2019-01-15 16:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/320843830 The Time Machine by H. G. Wells katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/320844934 -160p
-1895
-With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine’s lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he discovers two bizarre races—the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of tomorrow as well. ]]> 2019-01-15 16:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/320844934 Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/320849451 -1853
-458p
-It sounds interesting
-In Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell set out to portray, not 'the Condition of England' already famously addressed in Mary Barton, but the nature and sensibility of a fallen woman. Her orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy young Henry Bellingham. Shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son, and yet rejecting the opportunity to marry her seducer, Ruth finds a path that affirms we are not bound to repeat our mistakes.]]> 2019-01-15 16:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/320849451 2666 by Roberto Bolaño katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/321783398 -2003
-912p
-Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have disappeared.]]> 2019-01-17 16:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/321783398 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin katroa17 https://padlet.com/katroa17/j5llxi3iqrz1/wish/321785193 -1956
-Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. 
-176p

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