Bucket List

Over this past weekend I saw the movie "The Bucket List." Between that movie and planning a library lesson with the 9th graders for the upcoming Big Read of Fahrenheit 451 I began to think about my own "bucket list" in the form of books. Hummm, what would I read if I only had a limited time before books disappeared. I immediately was drawn to one of my bookshelves at home. It contains all my favorites, from the childhood series of Elsie Dinsmore, Beautiful Joe, Gone with the Wind, The Yellow-Wallpaper, The Awakening, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to current faves The Secret Life of Bees, World Without End, and A Thousand Splendid Suns... but then my eyes move to another shelf The Canon that includes the Great Books Series, how many books can I reread quickly so I'll never forget them? Where do I begin and where do I end? So many books, and so little time... So while I'm trying to reduce my favorites to something manageable in case of a crisis- What's in your bucket?