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Ready or not, here come the end-of-term recaps. Last night at Shenanigans, Christine and Mary Ann started a round of “best of” questions, including “What’s one thing you learned this summer?” to “Tensest moments in the classroom.” I took notes. Here are the gathered participants’ response to “Favorite thing you read this semester:”

Everett: Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps
Jason: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Mary Ann: The Hunters by Claire Messud
Christine: Edisto by Padgett Powell
    (runner up was Tall Tales from The Mekong Delta by Kate Braverman)
Hannah: Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Josh and Doug: Twirling at Ole Miss by Terry Southern
Pete: Archibald MacLeish’s Fortune Magazine features from 1938
Rachel: wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton
Fran: poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Jimmy: The Table of Contents for Michael Griffith’s forthcoming novel

Any other favorite readings you’d like to share?

(We do our best thinking at Shenanigans. Here’s the Creative Nonfiction class, hard at work.)