Hello all!
My name is Dalia Currie, I am a second-year student and I’m thinking of pursuing CRWR and SOCI in my remaining years. I enjoy writing and reading, plays and short stories mostly. In my personal time, besides writing, I like to roller-skate at the skatepark, hang out with my cat and dog, watch movies (I watched Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind last night), and play the mobile game HayDay with my boyfriend. Honestly, the physical act of holding a book makes me feel very quaint and calm and like life isn’t a chaotic mess, but sometimes I find the actual task of reading so painfully tedious that my eyes refuse to focus on anything. Nonetheless, I am excited to read some of these pieces (although I think I will only be aiming for an A-). This afternoon I went to the Koerner basement to borrow a copy of Swann’s Way for the first reading. The only English copy they had was this beat-up old version that had been salvaged with duck tape. I had a great time in the library. I had to go to the basement and there were shelves that were moved with cranks! I will probably read more that I know about all the books down there! Something interesting that was discussed during the lecture was how translation is a tricky thing. I found that some of the digital texts I tried at first had very different translations when comparing the to each other. One text was actually shorter and used much more simple language. I wonder if it carries the same meaning that other longer and more difficult-to-read versions do? Because people are all getting the books themselves, I wonder how our versions will vary within the class. Maybe this is something that will be relevant during discussion days, or maybe not. In the lecture when talking about what the romance world is and how it is not actually a geographical place, I started thinking about Montreal and how in a way we are a romance-speaking country. Most Canadians speak some French. I speak some French, enough in fact to read some of Swann’s Way in the original language and pick up on how the translation is wonky, but I have never thought much of the Romance World or Canada’s place in it. I think it’s interesting what the language has to do with an RMST course, my understanding is that it is both nothing and everything. I am looking forward to cracking into the readings and (hopefully) completing my contract.
My question is do you use bookmarks? Do you make or buy them? Or do you just fold over the corner?
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind,a movie that I liked years ago when it came out in the cinema! Yes, I am old. I also confess that I like books in old editions, underlined, a little battered. In some ways, I feel like I’m connecting with the people who read it before me.
Agree, I really like battered books, especially old hardcovers!
Hi Dalia it is so nice to meet you! I am Maxene and I am in RMST 202 with you. I too have a cat so I totally get spending hours with them. I also LOVE eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. I’m also a sociology major so it’s always exciting to meet other sociology majors. As I keep reading I keep finding similarities too haha, I also speak French (to some extent). To answer your question, I use post it notes as bookmarks! I hope to discuss with you in class in the future! Have a good day!!
Ahhh nice to meet you, and post it notes are so real I am rocking a bunch of those in my textbooks rn!
Hi Dalia! My name is Nini. I have way to many bookmarks than I need and this is because I love it when bookmarks match the cover of the book I’m currently reading. I’m actually from Montreal and fluent in French so I love that you brought that up!
Thats the cutest idea, I’m trying to find a bookmark rn
Hi Dalia! Nice to meet you, I’m Indra.
I had to comment because I also love love love ‘Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind’! I also really like the idea of old, beat up books because I feel like it looks like it’s been read and ‘lived’ through by many others. Hope to see you in class soon!
Hi Dalia! My name is Ludi! I totally feel you reading can be exhausting!! I often fall asleep while reading, especially when I’m reading in bed. I usually dog ear my books but I only read on my Kindle at the moment since I had to leave all my books back home.
Hi Dahlia! Nice to meet you I’m Rick. I definitely relate to you that it’s hard to stay focused when reading. Especially because I read with my iPad mostly, and there are 1000 distractions there so I find it really hard to keep track. Also good to know that people are still playing Hayday – love that game!
I don’t usually use bookmarks because I do read with my iPad, but when I used to read physical books, a bookmark is essential for me because I can never keep track of where I left off no matter how hard I try.