I studied Cry, The Beloved Country in high school, but it was also assigned reading for a college class. It has James Earl Jones on the cover; this must be a movie tie-in edition!
Jane Eyre was my summer reading assignment prior to senior year. I procrastinated on reading it, and I procrastinated on writing the paper, to the degree that I was still writing my paper the morning of the first day of school, when I was supposed to be standing in line to get a parking space. I finished the paper, but that whole year I had to park down by the gym, which was approximately nine miles from anywhere. One day, at the end of the year, my friend Paul had a prearranged excused absence, so I borrowed his parking spot for the day. The campus security guard wrote me a $20 parking ticket, and they wouldn't let me graduate until I paid it, even though that is obviously ridiculous, because nobody else was going to park in that space on that day. I remember all these events vividly, yet I remember nothing about Jane Eyre.
I did not reread either of these books. As is the case with most of my English books, these copies are full of notes and highlighting. I don't particularly want to keep marked-up copies of books, anyway, so these were simply recycled.
This last set of eight English books weighed only three pounds, so now we've eliminated 44 total books, weighing 39.9 pounds.
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