Cycle One: Eh-den or E-den?

"Finally" is the word that popped into my mind when Mr. Perlman announced the third marking period project: reading books. It has been a while since I read for fun. Instead of reading, I found myself sleeping or watching TV during the time I should be flipping through the crisp papers. As people always say, you always need a little "push" to get things done. When I arrived at the library, I glimpsed through few books here and there, until I came across the East of Eden written by the famous John Steinbeck (Did you know he won a Noble Prize?). Sorry for being off-topic, but this guy is very interesting. I did not know much about him before, but apparently he had three wives, wrote 27 books, and was a heavy smoker... I could tell the last one, since the picture of him on the back page also had him with a cigarette in his hand. Anyway, I remembered buying this fancy book and never reading it. That's what I always do. Buy the books, and hope I have time to read it. For example, I read half of the novel Count of Monte Cristo few years ago, and never actually finished it. I stopped reading after school began and when I picked it up to read it again, it was just TOO MUCH. Hopefully that won't happen with this book. I'm actually really excited, except for the fact that I don't know how I would be able to read 700-some pages within two cycles. Yikes. Lots of reading. But hopefully it would be worth it.