tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post5508565729655840971..comments2024-03-07T11:38:48.622-08:00Comments on We Be Reading: The Book List Meme: Books That Take You Back to High SchoolKristen M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02335598194501733541noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-69350910013412110342010-03-12T10:15:01.165-08:002010-03-12T10:15:01.165-08:00Hannah - Great list! I think this is a fascinatin...Hannah - Great list! I think this is a fascinating exercise!<br /><br />Ted - I wonder if I would appreciate Grapes of Wrath more now than I did in high school. I am planning to finally re-read TOTC this year now that I appreciate Dickens so much more than I did in high school!<br /><br />Enbrethiliel - I didn't read it for school either really. I read some other Willa Cather books for a project but it was a self-chosen author project so there was no teaching, per se.<br /><br />Eva - I read Death Comes as a senior and liked it but it was also my third Cather so I think I was just comfortable with her writing by then. I need to do re-reads of Antonia and Oh Pioneers though!<br /><br />Jenners - I'm surprised to see that so many people have read My Antonia. You don't hear about it much!<br /><br />Rebecca - I'm sure there are regional differences in high school require reading lists. It would be an interesting thing to see.Kristen M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02335598194501733541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-86569655033130018232010-03-11T15:01:29.097-08:002010-03-11T15:01:29.097-08:00I didn't read any of these books in high schoo...I didn't read any of these books in high school. We weren't nearly as well-read apparently as other schools. I did read My Antonia last year and really enjoyed it.Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706544792110129160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-91970098384570919692010-03-10T18:20:43.185-08:002010-03-10T18:20:43.185-08:00I could pretty much say the same ones ... but My A...I could pretty much say the same ones ... but My Antonia was college for me!Jennershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08044537551139633301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-38457779723278800722010-03-09T22:07:40.717-08:002010-03-09T22:07:40.717-08:00I've just started My Antonia! I had to read De...I've just started My Antonia! I had to read Death Comes for the Archbishop as a sophomore in high school and found the experience so painful, I"d written Cather off for good. Now that I'm giving her a second chance, I'm impressed. :)Evahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06703372903532502944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-61088413878325847592010-03-09T08:56:59.683-08:002010-03-09T08:56:59.683-08:00+JMJ+
I also read My Antonia when I was in high s...+JMJ+<br /><br />I also read <i>My Antonia</i> when I was in high school, but it wasn't <i>for</i> high school. Then I had no one to discuss it with because no one else had read it!<br /><br />How was it taught to you in class, Kristen?Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-81273545243487885022010-03-09T08:13:02.002-08:002010-03-09T08:13:02.002-08:00Don't know how I didn't think of "Gra...Don't know how I didn't think of "Grapes," except that I didn't really appreciate it until much later, and after I had actually taught the book a few times. And as for "Tale," I think we need to get a read-along / re-read going on this one, as I'm gearing up to teach the book next month.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754919688510890076.post-88169951392635101832010-03-09T00:22:26.479-08:002010-03-09T00:22:26.479-08:00Hi - interesting post and has got me thinking. I w...Hi - interesting post and has got me thinking. I would say that my school days books are:<br /><br />1. Jane Eyre - my English teacher said that if I did not cry at the end of this novel then I was not the woman he thought I was, and I did not let him down. I remember that being my first adult really emotional read. <br />2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. We did this for our GCSE novel and everyone absolutely hated it for about the first 200 pages - then we got it and we were away. <br />3. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - when we were about 16 we went through something of a Sylvia Plath phase... I still think of her Ariel collection of poems sometimes, but the one that has really stuck with me is her Bell Jar novel... I guess that it is a classic adolescent/adult boundary read. <br /><br />Great post, thanks for sharing<br /><br />HannahHannah Stonehamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11139146341592918233noreply@blogger.com