Required Reading
As my spring semester is about to begin, I’ve started reading one of the books for my Brit Lit class– Oliver Twist. The book list for the class includes many titles that I feel like I should have read, but never have (Sense and Sensibility, Mrs Dalloway, Heart of Darkness, Picture of Dorian Gray). As much as I would rather be reading a book of my own choice, I do enjoy lit classes; they force me to read books I otherwise would never have picked up. I’m only a few chapters into Oliver Twist, but I’m already liking it more than I thought I would. Of course, every once in a while there’s a Makoika Sisters, which while I haven’t read it personally, my friends who read it for a high school English class four years ago still talk about the trauma it inflicted on them.
What books did you love (or hate) reading in an English or literature class?
