School reading! I was just given Old School by Tobias Wolff to read, which is a wonderful, easy read, but as I never took a particularly comprehensive American literature class, I fail to understand some of the literary references within. Thus, I am closely chasing the novel with The Sun Also Rises.

And there's nothing like delving into Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation: And Introduction to Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics for Nonspecialists.