Disgruntled English Major

jlrobinson:

*sigh* aren’t they beautiful? all the books i’ve bought/received this summer. mostly classics, they are:

1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Emma by Jane Austen
5. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
6. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (which shouldn’t be there but oh well)
7. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
11. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
12. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
13. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
14. A House in Space by Henry S. F. Cooper 
15. Five Great Stories by Anton Chekhov
16. Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton
17. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
18. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
19. Islands in The Stream by Ernest Hemingway
20. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
21. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

and a few more that aren’t pictured, most notably more Chekhov (i wonder where that went…). I have read maybe 1/3 of those pictured.

and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what an English major spends her hard-earned money on. 

emmecstasyx:

GOOD QUESTION, BOOK IDK. 😓💀 (Taken with Instagram)

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ninareads:

Today the first of my college textbooks, the Norton Anthology of Poetry, arrived. I opened it to a random page only to stare openmouthed at it for a second before doing a happydance around my kitchen. My English major and I are going to get along just fine.

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visual-poetry:

“book” by chema madoz

booksandtea:

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booksandtea:

WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three questions:
 

- What are you currently reading?
 

- What did you recently finish reading?
 

- What do you think you’ll read next?


Click here to see my WWW Wednesday posts, newest at the top.

Ooooh, this is a cool thing that everyone should do.

My responses:

Currently reading: Orlando by Virginia Woolf (for class) and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (for fun)

Recently Finished: Passing by Nella Larsen

Next Up: A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan

miss-teacher:

Reading is sexy.