Sad to admit as an English major, but I haven't been thoroughly interested in the material I've been required to read in a looong time. It couldn't have gotten much worse than the British Lit I was reading this time last year, namely the vapid Canterbury Tales. That was one class I anticipated the end of from day one, except for the fact I loved the professor in that class. It makes it hard to be totally disinterested in a class when you have an awesome professor because you don't want to come across as insensitive. But I'm currently finding myself engrossed in Toni Morrison's, Song of Solomon, which is a novel I'm reading for Ethnic and Minority Lit. I can't seem to put it down.
The first half was to be read by the beginning of class today. We had a great discussion on it, but it is one of those books that, even after class is over, I'm still contemplating its themes and issues. That's what the classics are intended to do; to provoke and stir the deepest emotions of humanity. Though it is too soon to consider this a classic, I think I have to agree with my professor that Toni Morrison is one of the greatest American writers in our time.
In other, totally unrelated news, my husband found out yesterday that he is working on a "top secret" project that happens to involve the selling and reconstructing of one of the rides we rode at our favorite amusement park this summer. I tried to post a pic of it, but an error screen kept coming up. Oh well.
And in addition to my nose being glued to this novel, my ears have been glued to the television, following this Rita-bitch spawn of Katrina.
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I loved that book!!
I majored in English way back...and I remember reading a book for Cultural Diversity studies called "Ain't I a Woman?"
An anthology of poetry by women of color around the world. It was absolutely awesome! Esp. the title piece, a poetic interpretation of Sojourner Truth's speech delivered at an Akron, OH women's convention in 1851...mind-blowingly moving!!
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