Student Blogs

 Well, this is it. The last blog post and I am a little sad about it. I really enjoyed pushing myself and reading a book a week. It gave me structure and a way to hit my reading goals and diving deeper into different novels. Some that I never woul... read full post >>

 Well, this is it. The last blog post and I am a little sad about it. I really enjoyed pushing myself and reading a book a week. It gave me structure and a way to hit my reading goals and diving deeper into different novels. Some that I never woul... read full post >>

Patterns. I made a list to see if I could notice some patterns in the themes that caught my attention the most from each book. Overall, as the title suggests, I think in most of the novels the main character(s) were misfits in some way, people who do not quite fit into the world around […] read full post >>

It feels so weird to be done. This class helped me push up my yearly reading goal on Goodreads and now, I won’t have a constant recommendation on what to read anymore. No joke, this class made me think of joining a book club because reading the novels and discussing them in class was my […] read full post >>

I think Love Me Tender is such an interestingly written piece that goes against the ideas of love, motherhood, and identity. The expectations placed on women are traditionally challenged by the choice of personal freedom over social approval, which, as a woman of this generation, I LOVE to see. I think one of the most […] read full post >>

Hey guys… we officially made it to the end and I’m feeling a little emotional about it. This class made me get back into reading. As a kid and even a teenager I would read to escape and find my own little universe… then it changed, I started only reading for school, which completely changed […] read full post >>

Going into this class, I’ll be honest, I was a little intimidated. When we started with Combray by Marcel Proust, I genuinely struggled. It was probably the most difficult thing I’ve had to read in a long time. The sentences felt endless, the pacing was slow, and I kept rereading the same parts trying to […] read full post >>

This was my first book that I chose on a whim without reading the synopsis at the start of the semester so I was pretty blindsided by the topic that it delved into! However, It’s not written in a complicated way and the chapters move on pretty quickly. What stayed with me was how normalized […] read full post >>

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I’m breaking the fourth wall again for these last two blog posts—this one on Love Me Tender and the upcoming Conclusions post. I think it lets me say a little more than when I’m playing at the wood... read full post >>

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I’m breaking the fourth wall again for these last two blog posts—this one on Love Me Tender and the upcoming Conclusions post. I think it lets me say a little more than when I’m playing at the wood... read full post >>

Going into this book, I expected much more emotional writing than what I think I recieved. read full post >>

 Love Me Tender by Constance Debre was an interesting read and very different from the other books that I have read for this course. I found that the chapters were mostly a page long which made me think about how in life we have numerous chapters ... read full post >>

 Love Me Tender by Constance Debre was an interesting read and very different from the other books that I have read for this course. I found that the chapters were mostly a page long which made me think about how in life we have numerous chapters ... read full post >>

Immediately, the writing of this book surprised me（´∇｀”）I didn’t know it was written recently, so the short, punchy sentences were not what I expected. Still, despite how seemingly to-the-point and emotionless the sentences were, the overall raw feeling of this book made it so that it took a bit more effort for me to read, […] read full post >>

I don’t really know what exactly I should be talking about in this blog. However I’ll start by talking about how I kept kicking the stone down the road when it came to my literature requirement. I didn’t really get the logic behind a science, literature or writing requirement. I completed the science and the […] read full post >>