I now realize that since the last book I read was “Love Me Tender” by Debre, I should’ve titled that blog post “Love Me Sweet” and then titled this conclusiatory one “Never Let Me Go”. But alas it is too late now. I digress.<\/p>\n
Regardless, I wasn’t sure how much I was going to like this course at first. I mean I like reading and discussion as such, but this was a lot of texts and I didn’t know what the expectations of these discussions and blog posts were, and admittedly I just overthought everything… However I was pleasantly surprised overall. It felt more doable (even if I most definitely procrastinated the reading until the weekend before it was due…) than before and honestly I enjoyed reading the other blog posts and such, it felt basically like a big book club in some ways. Though admittedly talking in class scared me, there’s nothing that makes you feel more incompetent than putting your hand up and speaking in class.<\/p>\n
I would say overall my favourite texts were Nada, The Lover, Faces in the Crowd, and Black Shack Alley. They were relatively readable and honestly interesting even if I didn’t like a number of the characters. I’d argue that the dislike is what made a lot of these texts engaging, there’s nothing that drives one to continue with something more than spite! In all honesty all of the texts in this book seemed to have three to four main things in common: war, memory, social class, and shitty men. Even if they weren’t primary topics, to my recollection essentially all were present in one way or another barring a few exceptions.<\/p>\n
Oh, it also taught me that Freud goes far beyond my own major of psychology and permeates everyone and everything else somehow. I really thought I was free from him while in my electives, it appears that I was wrong.<\/p>\n
I would say that my thoughts on literature and reading haven’t changed all that much. That being said my thoughts on literature have been expanded I think. Though I read a good amount even prior to this course, I didn’t necessarily have a whole lot of background knowledge regarding the development of literature during these periods. I read a lot but I didn’t necessarily classify the type of writing (surrealism, modernism, etc.) so this has kind of let me look back on other texts that I have read and understand more context regarding them, as well as refine what kinds of books I like and why.<\/p>\n
Honestly over all, I would read another romance language book or a few willingly. Which I hadn’t totally considered before. Or at least I would find some in audiobook form.<\/p>\n
All in all thank you so much all of you for your time and effort during this course! I have enjoyed meeting and talking to all of you!<\/p>\n
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