For summer reading I read two books, The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh and Endurance by Alfred Lansing. In The Loved One, it's mostly about Dennis and Aimee's relationship and Mr. Joyboy and Aimee's relationship and how she doesn't know who to love. Aimee gets engaged to Dennis but later marries Mr. Joyboy. Later Aimee feels that it won't work. She calls Mr. Slump for help and he tells her, "Do it! I'll tell you what to do. Take the elevator to the top floor. Find a nice window and jump out. This is what you can do. I told her to do it ". go take a high jump." Aimee then took Mr. Slump's advice and went to Mr. Joyboy's office and committed suicide with an injection. The other book Endurance was about an explorer named Sir Ernest Shackleton and he was the leader of the Imperial Transantarctic Expedition, which consisted of twenty-seven men on the ship called the Endurance, and was supposed to cross the Antarctic continent. Long story short, the Endurance gets stuck in the ice and can't move, so they left the boat and are went to South Georgia Island and tried to survive the elements and try to stay alive. There are many themes in the books, The Loved One and Endurance, that relate to me, other books, and the world books I read reminded me of myself and my life. First in The Loved One, when Dennis' friend Sir Francis commits suicide and Dennis had to plan the funeral and how he should choose a pose, what coffin he would have had to choose and what clothes Sir Francis should wear. It reminded me of how when my grandfather died, my family had to do the same thing Dennis did for Sir Francis' funeral. Dennis used to work at a pet funeral home and cemetery called Happier Hunting Ground and how Mr. Joyboy had to… half the paper… how I did the same with my pet parakeets. The text-to-text connection was the similarities between the poem The Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock and the book The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh and how they both talked about love and how they have problems with it and don't know what to do . Finally, the connection between the two books and the world was in Endurance, where in the new one we hear about a missing ship and people who survived the shipwreck, it's just like in the book how they had to survive when they left the ship. There were many connections between the books and my life, with other books, and with the world. Works Cited John, Hersey,. Hiroshima. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1989. Lansing, Alfred. Resistence. New York, New York: Perseus Books Group, 1959. Waugh, Evelyn. the Beloved. New York, NY: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1948.