Summer Reading

So, for those of us still in high school, "summer reading" has a more sinister meaning than just "YES! Summer! I can read as much as I want!" Yes, the "YAY!" meaning definitely still applies, but there's also assigned reading. For me, the assigned reading is usually a lot less interesting than the stuff that I pick up on my own. So either it gets put off until the last possible minute, or I bribe myself.

I wouldn't dislike the school reading so much if not for the fact that at my school, we're expected to annotate all the books, and they don't give us a clear definition of how much annotation they want. Personally, I hate writing in books, and sometimes they're not even my books, so I can't write in them. Instead, I use sticky notes or write notes in a spiral-bound notebook. But the act of interrupting my own reading to write down my responses to the story really annoys me. I'd rather just read the book straight through, because I'll process it better and enjoy it more that way. Annotating is going to pretty much guarantee that I will not enjoy the book. My conclusion: having to annotate makes me not want to read. Which is a very, very sad thing for a total bibliophile like me. Anybody else have stuff like that?

I'm reading 1984 (Orwell), A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving), The Things They Carried (O'Brien), and Naked Economics (Wheelan) for school this summer, in preparation for AP Literature and AP Government and Macroeconomics. What's anybody else reading for school?