Book Log

[anotherusedpage]

I believe I have not yet in 2011 read a book by a nondisabled white heterosexual man. If I keep this up until 2014 I might just about balance out my Oxford English degree....

Tiger Hills - Sarita Mandanna
Hero - Perry Moore
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (Oh god I loved this so, so, so much. I'm really quite in love with Khaled Hosseini.)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (This was on offer with the Khaled Hosseini in a train station book shop. I am SO GLAD I picked it up. It does really, really clever things with reader response theory and narrative. I have many thinky thoughts about it and would love to write it up properly at some point).
Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Communities and Make Social Justice Claims - ed Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, Kayhan Irani
Sociology: The Basics - Ken Plummer

I wanted to read more of: Books by disabled people; books by women of colour, especially queer women of colour; black, queer, and disabled performance studies; black, queer, and disabled sociology; Jewish queer women.

Comments

[highfantastical.livejournal.com]

AAAAH your paper 8 sounds amazing, what fun! Am a bit jealous.

I didn't do a lot of women writers - definitely fewer than some people. I did Woolf and Plath for Modern-for-Mods, and Woolf again for paper 7. My paper 8 was on Austen and Sterne. Other than those, I thiiiink the only one was Aphra Behn. To be honest, though, I could have pushed to do more, but I didn't mind a relatively traditional, canonical focus for the period papers - the majority of my non-university reading has always been women, so overall it didn't feel so very unbalanced at an experiential level. (Oh, no, actually I'd forgotten that I did do Udolpho, technically speaking - but not Gothic as a topic, the novel just happened to be set for me as extra work. Gothic as a topic was anathema to me because of the constantly-repeated story that "Girls do terribly badly at Gothic".)

I would have liked to Julian of N., though, that's probably who I most miss having worked on. But, who knows, may be able to one day. :) Doing the Beowulf-poet for paper 7 must have been Quite Incredible, btw.

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

I wish someone had told me this about the Gothic. I cam accross it reading examiner's notes about six weeks before exams. I wish I'd read examiner's notes right at the beginning of the course :D

Also, I wish I had brained in advance that when my tutor said 'Blake is rubbish' I should have taken this as a clue that I'd love Blake and done him instead of.... almost everything I did do for paper 6.

The only thing I had fun on with paper six was Grey, and that was because I was discovering neopaganism at the time. Sodding romantics. *grin*

I didn't read Julian of N, oddly. Still haven't. Beornwulf Poet for 7 was great. Although I don't remember what I wrote about. Probably wimminz. I remember getting frustrated that I wanted to draw paralels between elements of other legends, and my tutor was all with the 'but there's no evidence they could have been read by the Beornwulf poet!' and I didn't yet have the skills to say 'reader response! influence on interpretation either way!'