The Book Pirate’s Musing on… Required Reading
The Pirate’s Musing on…
Required Reading
The school is -finally- over. This term felt a little longer than the ones that preceded it. The Spring term was brutal for me because all of the reading I was required to do was overwhelming. Normally having too much to read is a problem that I can normally handle pretty well. The problem this last term was that the books that I spent my time reading were not for leisure. They were books I was forced to read.
Ever since High School I had issues being forced to read a particular book. My Sophomore year I drudgingly read A Separate Peace, which is a classic according to Mr. Holmberg. Mr. Libby, my Senior year English teacher, introduced the class to Brave New World which I found not to be very brave or new or interesting for that matter. Don’t even get me started on Shakespeare.
I didn’t discover my love of books until after I graduated high school. My disdain for the books I was forced to read probably came from my rebellious teenage attitude. I figured that in college things would be different and the books that I would be forced to read would be interesting.
I was wrong.
This past term I took three English heavy classes: Fiction Writing, Non-Fiction Writing, and Canadian Literature. There were a total of nine books that I had to read in the short nine week period for those three classes. Of those nine, I only read, from front to back, two of them. Canadian Literature was the most neglected class and I finished none of those books. Fun fact: Canadian literature is really, really boring and depressing.
So I confess, I never finished these books like I should have. I only half (well, half-ish) finished reading these books.
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup by Susan Orlean
Now let’s never mention these books again.
Next year I get into even more English heavy classes. There will be things I will have to get over like my disliking of classic literature. Until then, I have my entire summer of leisure reading ahead of me.
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