Those seem like strange books for a summer reading list. Your son must be older than I was thinking.

Eat, Pray, Love is OK at best in my opinion and I can't see a kid plowing through it.

Mao is pretty good if you are a bio nut which I am. Does the poor child even know who Mao is??

I use the library too.

I'll start looking. I LOVE bookstores and I'm sure my husband may regret this. :D

LOL. Jorge is 16 years old. I also found the list a little strange for a summer reading. I found eat Pray Love at the local library, but they don't have any of the others. I found two used at Alibris, at very nice prices, but is amazing to see that the shipping is so much more expensive than the books.

Now I only need The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the secret world of Hershey's and Mars
sounds like the best one. From a chocoholic...

Is from a business perspective, so I don't expect much. Poor boy is going to be so bored. He likes theoretical physics and this is what he gets.

I don't think your son will like Eat, Pray, Love, either ;-(

It was highly recommended to me by a very close friend, so I slogged my way through it. Wish I had given up.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dharma-Bums-Sign...item3cadd06245

Cheapest Dharma Bums I could find.

I studied Kerouac in college. I think I was the first generation that was allowed to. And we had to fight a bit. I did a thesis on Allen Ginsberg. And my ex-husband was a Kerouac scholar.

Go back to your library. Libraries can borrow books from other libraries - it's called inter-library loan. Ask them to get you the books they don't have via inter-library loan.

Another thing is that many counties let you use any library in the county, so if a library in another town has the books, you can just get them at that branch.

I don't feel too sorry for Jorge. Everyone who goes to school has to learn things and do assignments they don't care about. It will broaden his horizons a bit, and honestly, reading about chocolate can't be that painful.

Eat, Pray, Love sounds fascinating to me. I see that it's being made into a movie with Julia Roberts. I'll have to check it out.

I placed an order with mcKenzie Books and got 8 books for $25.83 and shipping was free if you spent $25. They were used but all in excellent condition.