REVISITING COURSE TEXTS: Uni Reading Challenge

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As you may know, I recently completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature and will be going on to my postgraduate degree in the same subject come August. I was thinking the other day about how I didn't really enjoy any of the texts on my course unless they were ones I had chosen to read myself anyway - Dracula and Edgar Allen Poe's stories come to mind. I thought it would be interesting then to revisit some of the texts that I really disliked and see if my attitudes towards the books changed now that I'll be reading for pleasure rather than work. 

I feel a good place to start with this series would be Wuthering goddamn Heights. There is no book on my entire course that I hate more than this - but I'm aiming to go into each post/reading with a fresh mindset and no bias. I'm going to forget that Heathcliff is a right weirdo and that there is about 7000 Catherine's within the book. A few other novels I want to look at are Northanger Abbey, Mrs. Dalloway, Jekyll & Hyde and The God of Small Things - and then I think I'll go from there! There wont be a regular posting schedule with this series, as I don't want to force myself to read when I'm not feeling it - as doing this will just make me look at the novel in a negative way. I'd expect my post on Wuthering Heights to be up in about a week or so, though. You can keep up with me on Twitter here where I'll probably post (moan) about my progress with each book!

Are there any books that you read in school/college/uni that you would like to revist? Let me know in the comments!

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  1. I used to do English lit at uni until I switched to history! I do not know how you guys cope with the reading that you have to do. I mean history is very knowledge intensive but it's only a few articles not a whole novel a week! Congratulations on finishing though your a braver sort than I am! Good luck with the next part of your course :) xxxx

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