With every high school, summer assignments are guaranteed (especially with Honors and AP classes). I never really minded these assignments because I figured the reading content has breadth, and is rich in rhetorical devices (also, they're an all time CLASSIC, and will totally dress up your bookshelves). But this year, along with my AP class assignments, the entire school is required to read a book called...Listening is An Act of Love. The title itself is too embarrassing to say. Another books such as Les Miserables or The Scarlett Letter at least have some coolness to it, but this one...completely insane. It sounds like the title of a cheesy soap opera/Spanish drama translated into English, or a child-rearing book that a grandmother would give to the mom for Christmas, but the mom is even too embarrassed to read. This "assignment" seems so cheesy...I feel like I, myself, am in a episode of some bad Disney Channel show (like That's So Raven or Lizzie McGuire).
And, the cherry on top, the COVER. Couples/child with parents together?! Seriously, gag me. Can we not have some cool Baroque paintings or pencil etching?
Les Miserables knows how to sell their products!
