What was I thinking?
For those of you who don't know, or have lives of your own and have forgotten, I decided to go back to University last fall. I took three courses, tore my hair out from time to time and in the end did well enough to gain admittance to another year. So, a few weeks ago it was time again to register for courses for this fall. I decided I could manage to work on this degree again, along with looking for part-time work, raising my three kids and keeping house. Right. Anyway, I decided to sign up for only two courses as, since they are both fourth year requirements, I figured I'd go slow. Today I printed out the book lists so I could get started on some of the reading this summer. I have copied out the lists below for anyone who is interested. Oy. Have a nice summer everyone, I'll now be spending the next two months up in my bedroom reading. Let me know if I miss anything. Kids? You're on your own. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jane Austen, 1.
Suggested Reading: Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (Penguin); Charlotte Ramsay Lennox, The Female Quixote (Oxford UP). Supplementary bibliographies
and for the other class:
1.Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Oxford); James Phillips Kay, 2. The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester (course kit); Elizabeth Gaskell, 3.Mary Barton (Oxford); Henry Mayhew, 4.London Labour and the London Poor (selections in course kit); Charles Dickens, 5.Oliver Twist (Penguin); Charles Dickens, 6.Great Expectations (Penguin); James Greenwood, 7.“A Night in a Workhouse” (course kit); James Thomson, 8.“The City of Dreadful Night” (course kit); John Thomson, 9.Victorian London Street Life (Dover); Robert Louis Stevenson, 10.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover); George and Weedon Grossmith, 11.The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin); Arthur Morrison, 12.A Child of the Jago (Academy Chicago Publishers); George Gissing, 13.The Odd Women (Penguin); Arthur ConanDoyle, 14.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford); Bram Stoker, 15.Dracula (Penguin); Rudyard Kipling, 16.Kim (Oxford). Additional primary and secondary readings to be included in course kit.




oh man....good luck.
Let me know if you need any beverages in between chapters.
peace#2
Posted by: gaining some lb's | June 29, 2008 at 07:07 PM
thanks for your helpful tips on blogging. i need all the help i can get!
i sure wish i had the motivation you do to go back to school!
good luck with the summer reading...
roberta
p.s my dad is doing great...thanks for asking!
Posted by: pinkcherrymama | June 29, 2008 at 09:14 PM
Didn't we have to read George Eliot's Mill on the Floss in ENG101 at Mac? We read Wuthering Heights in High School as well as Pride & Prejudice. I still have copies hanging around if you want them... Also have Mansfield Park, Dracula, Oliver Twist... good luck! that's alot of depressing stories to read!!
Posted by: Sandra | June 30, 2008 at 08:58 AM
Yeah, you're going to be way busy!
Posted by: Jill | June 30, 2008 at 10:29 AM
I've already read about half of those, maybe I should take those classes too. :P
Posted by: Memarie Lane | June 30, 2008 at 11:00 AM
My oh my! That is a lot of reading to do!!!
Good luck :)
Posted by: Cindy | June 30, 2008 at 01:19 PM
One of my majors was English, so I've read many of those. I enjoyed most of them. But I sure as heck didn't read them in ONE SUMMER!
Posted by: Fannie | June 30, 2008 at 04:30 PM
Happy reading! I went back to school as well and just graduated with my undergrad in 2003 so I know what you're going through..Good for you!!!!!
Thanks for visiting my blog and for your funny comments about my nose..and yes, it's totally photoshopp'd !!!!!!! :-)
Posted by: Robin | July 01, 2008 at 05:14 PM
Two words: Cliff Notes
Posted by: Julianne | July 01, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Wow...and good luck!
Posted by: New Diva | July 03, 2008 at 11:23 AM