new ideas

So I have been swamped with the combination of working at my job, getting ready for Magic city art connection, and getting ready for my Japanese finals(there are two of them). All of this happens in the next 9 days and has limited what I can do or have time to do.

Despite all that, I have been thinking a lot about reading. I am not a very avid reader and that is precisely the problem. I was thinking about ulterior motives that North Korea could have for all of its posturing in the past and how small of a country it is and I kept thinking about the book the mouse that roared. I know what it is about but I have never read it, so I decided to buy it off of amazon. purchasing this old book reminded me that I am lost when it comes to books that well read people consider standard. Though I don't know what this will accomplish but I think I am going to start reading a lot of the "classics" if you can call them that on top of that I have been asking several people the question "If you could recommend 3 or 4 books that you think every one should read what would they be?" some of the stuff that has come up has been fairly expected and then some of it has been surprising. So I think that I am going to add these books into the ones that I read to make the reading list a little more well rounded and modernize it a little.

I wonder how this experiment of becoming well read will turn out and what I will take away from it? I guess Ill have a better idea after the first 50 or so books. I will post a list of books that I have compiled both new and old, suggested and off reading lists, when I have compiled it a little better in about a week until that happens. I think I am going to post a blurb about each book I read and what I take from it also so I hope I don't bore you all to death with that. Finally I want to know what you all think about this and hear your ideas. If you could recommend 3 or 4 books that you think every one should read what would they be?