I realized that this blog would be incomplete without its very last independent reading reflection, from my second semester of my senior year of high school. I didn't want to write it because I was afraid it was too late, and that I hadn't exactly done enough reading to make this post valuable. But as I have started publishing more and more book reviews to this blog (some of which I hope you've checked out and enjoyed!), I started to reflect on why I was doing that in the first place. Then, I had cause to look at my old reading reflections, and rediscovered the purpose of those: as a way for me to reflect and write about my passion for the books I was reading. So, here I shall publish what should have been written and published long ago: the last 2nd semester independent reading reflection. This semester, I only read six books, which is definitely the least amount of books I read during any documented point in high school. I read: Lord of Shadows: Cassandra Clare Que