Introduction to me!

Hello everyone! I’m Jasleen. I am a third-year student majoring in Sociology and minoring in Family Studies. Right now I am really into listening to Punjabi music. I’m not a person that looks for new music, I stick with the ones I know and my friends tend to introduce me to new songs. In high school I took AP Lit, and out of the four books we read I had enjoyed Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I wonder which of these literary pieces I will enjoy the most. I hope that this “book club” is as fun as my high school “book club”!

I am one of the people that read some Shakespeare in his original text. I found it to be a lot of fun to read aloud, even though I didn’t understand it at points and had to read the modern translation. Reading it out loud made it more interesting which makes sense since it is a play. 

The only other course I have taken in uni in which I read books was ASTU 100 in first year and I honestly wasn’t a big fan of the books but it was interesting to hear others discussing contemporary literature instead of classical literature discussions. 

I decided to take this course because I need it to fulfill a requirement. I decided to stay and keep the course because of the interesting format and grading system. I also hope that this course gets me back into reading, as reading with academic literature and textbooks for other courses have put me a bit off.

I expect to like this course, even if I am not a fan of the reading because of the structure of the course and the choices that we can make. I am hoping to find new classical books that I enjoy. I am also excited to buy more books. I’m a book dragon, I tend to buy more books even though I have a large stack that needs to be read. I like that we choose between two books as it should split the class somewhat evenly and it’s easier to discuss among smaller groups.

As I’m writing this I realize that my blogs will not have seamless transitions between points and I’m just putting what comes to mind straight onto the blog.

I really can’t wait to start discussing the books because people may interpret things differently and it’s interesting to see different points of views.

Thanks for reading my ramblings!