final

 The concluding post already! It doesn’t feel like that long ago when I was looking at the long list of books I was going to read for this class and feeling a little bit intimidated. I really enjoyed how this class was structured, my favorite part is probably the fact that we had choices most weeks. I also liked how the contract allowed for freedom and the need to adhere to a routine, the risk of not fulfilling the contract was so high that it was not an option! I am an avid reader and I love literature which is why as intimidated as I was by having to read a book a week (I’m a psychology major, its A LOT of reading), I was also excited and curious about these books. 

I will briefly talk about the book that might not have been my favorite but the most important to me. The passion according to G.H. was a book that I did not think I enjoyed reading, in fact, I felt annoyed through a big portion of the book and I had to push myself to keep reading. But at some point, that must have shifted and I must have become curious because I’ve thought about this book a lot more than any of the others. I would randomly think about different excerpts of things she said or moments of her looking at the cockroach and questioning her humanity, I also talked about it a lot, at least two of my friends are currently reading it. I love literature that surprises me and this is a book that did. 

Another aspect of the course I really enjoyed was the blogs. I really enjoyed the freedom to write without prompts because every book we read was so full of different factors that affected how each of us interpreted it and getting to see what others thought about as they were reading and what resonated with them was very enjoyable.

I got into the routine of starting a new novel right after I wrote my blog post. I have been keeping a record of books mentioned in class (besides the books I didn’t read) so that I would keep this routine. My next read: The Savage Detectives!