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 whoo! i really like the idea of reading books with a particular theme, and identity sounds something would work really well. i also want to read books for the upcoming semester. I was wondering if people wanted to read a number of books by the same author, for example, we could all read ann rand's the fountainhead and atlas shrugged. Since these may be rather long, we could probably just read excerpts of it. Or we could read Barara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and The Prodigals Summer. 

i think this would be a neat way of exploring genres.  we've talked alot about genres as a whole, but i think that we might want to go into something alittle more specific, now that we've had a more stable foundation on what constitutes genres.  i think choosing which novels to read would depend mainly on what the majority interests are. Kingsolver's novels have a rather "ethereal" writing style; her work was lauded as "literature of change" while Ann Rand's works are more philosophical in nature. We could even read books from different authors and compare and contrast styles so we can better grasp some of the unique aspects of each genre.