Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 06, 2013
August 05, 2013
August 07, 2013
Transcript:
girl: You're bored? On summer vacation? Mrs. Olsen: I had no idea how much this would slow me down. It's amazing how doing less can lead to doing nothing. girl: Maybe a great big honking summer reading list would help. Or so I've been told. Mrs. Olsen: Something smarts, and it's not my wrist.
The Old Wolf about 11 years ago
Ooh, feel the burn!
Varnes about 11 years ago
Wow, I haven’t heard the word honking used like that in years! Groovy!….But yeah, what a great excuse to sit down and read everything you can get your hands on! Er, hand?
StoicLion1973 about 11 years ago
I never got a summer reading list, probably because I never got the same teacher year-after-year.
roger baker about 11 years ago
It’s the “aleck”
Potrzebie about 11 years ago
I have a summer reading list I hope to assign to my kid:Are you there god? It’s me Margaret.Harry Potter series1984The Handmaiden’s taleAll of Heinlein’s worksLemony Snicket’s worksNeuromancerHow to train your dragonLord of the ringsetc….Not in that order though.
rekam Premium Member about 11 years ago
Never had a reading list but the public library had so many good books that my girlfriend and I would each check out the maximum of 10 books and then trade them when we’d finish them. Back we’d go to the library and repeat the process.
Varnes about 11 years ago
Potrzebie, don’t forget Carl Hiaasen and Christopher Moore..essential reading…….Might want to throw in some Twain, too….But everybody should read The Snow Fly. (Joseph Heywood).
bubujin_2 Premium Member about 11 years ago
The only summer reading list I ever had was a bookmark listing all the Newberry Medal award winners. Got through nearly the entire list over 2-3 years while in elementary school. Of course didn’t read them just during the summer and the list was only about 50 years worth of books or so. For more info, go to: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal
childe_of_pan over 7 years ago
I never had a reading list, but I was always reading anyway, to the extent that one year my mom forbade me any reading that was not school related, because she felt (possibly correctly) that it was getting in the way of homework. Ironically, she had no problem with my watching TV.