I really enjoyed reading the extra credit! I have so many classic books in my tbr that I feel guilty picking up a lighter, more frivolous read. It's difficult to regulate the impulse to "get ahead" on productive things during the summer even as an adult who left school 6 years ago.
Reading your list of books on the go reminded me of the list of classic(ish) literature I associate with different Taylor Swift songs. I'll drop some of them here if anyone wants to add any to their summer reading ;)
BOOKS:
The Bolter: 'The Pursuit of Love', Nancy Mitford (includes a serial monogamist character who's given this title)
I hate it here: 'The Blue Castle' by L.M. Montgomery
My Tears Ricochet: 'Wuthering Heights', Emily Bronte
Ivy: 'Effi Briest', Theodor Fontane (about a girl whose name closely resembles the German word for Ivy who has an off-page extramarital affair)
Exile: 'My cousin Rachel', Daphne Du Maurie
POEMS:
Last Kiss: 'When We Two Parted', Lord Byron (the metre is such you can sing it to the tune of Last Kiss)
The Albatross: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I really enjoyed reading the extra credit! I have so many classic books in my tbr that I feel guilty picking up a lighter, more frivolous read. It's difficult to regulate the impulse to "get ahead" on productive things during the summer even as an adult who left school 6 years ago.
Reading your list of books on the go reminded me of the list of classic(ish) literature I associate with different Taylor Swift songs. I'll drop some of them here if anyone wants to add any to their summer reading ;)
BOOKS:
The Bolter: 'The Pursuit of Love', Nancy Mitford (includes a serial monogamist character who's given this title)
I hate it here: 'The Blue Castle' by L.M. Montgomery
My Tears Ricochet: 'Wuthering Heights', Emily Bronte
Ivy: 'Effi Briest', Theodor Fontane (about a girl whose name closely resembles the German word for Ivy who has an off-page extramarital affair)
Exile: 'My cousin Rachel', Daphne Du Maurie
POEMS:
Last Kiss: 'When We Two Parted', Lord Byron (the metre is such you can sing it to the tune of Last Kiss)
The Albatross: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Samuel Taylor Coleridge