tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post6904400817802631354..comments2023-04-23T13:10:44.188+09:00Comments on this is how she fight start: Jane Eyre & Wide Sargasso Seakamohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-40768698058849926692014-06-09T21:23:32.971+09:002014-06-09T21:23:32.971+09:00Both 'hobgoblin' and 'little mind'...Both 'hobgoblin' and 'little mind' are perfectly apt. Make me disappointed that the full glory of your original comment got lost if there was more like that in it.<br /><br />Quitting it to enjoy it is definitely something I can understand. Obligation is a tricky bastard, even if it is notionally self-imposed.kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-59375429079283426162014-06-09T21:21:03.305+09:002014-06-09T21:21:03.305+09:00Yeah. As I said, I really enjoyed it at school, bu...Yeah. As I said, I really enjoyed it at school, but I can see how it was set up to appeal to kids who already liked it. Didn't do so much to engage the less keen. We're obviously trying to encourage the boys, but so far the youngest is considerably more enthusiastic than the elder. Hopefully the sheer weight of books in the house will act though some kind of osmosis and we'll be all right in the end...kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-27029942534385698862014-06-06T14:47:08.237+09:002014-06-06T14:47:08.237+09:00quitquitἈντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-85393069464290804852014-06-06T14:46:37.803+09:002014-06-06T14:46:37.803+09:00Lost my last comment, so this will be shorter. My...Lost my last comment, so this will be shorter. My Facebook reaction to 'G*ve' was: "'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...' but then again, Emerson's not British."<br /><br />I quite a major in Lit to enjoy reading again, and thank god it worked. Potential heavy readers need a syllabus cast wide, not narrowly studied to the depths. The rest need to be able to properly fill out their ration cards. It comes to personality that there is little movement between the two.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-87538651091655670012014-06-06T10:58:36.551+09:002014-06-06T10:58:36.551+09:00I enjoyed my English Lit classes in high school an...I enjoyed my English Lit classes in high school and am glad I was made to read some of the classics I did at such an age, mainly because once I became a student of the hard sciences at university, I pretty much stopped reading fiction altogether. I do take a classic home every now and then from the library, but I have a lot of catching up to do compared to most avid readers.<br />No doubt, the level at which literature is dissected in high school is much different in the US than in the UK (obviously, we don't go into it anywhere near as deeply), and very little from non-American authors is actually required reading. It seems to me that most Americans who become avid readers do so because they were encouraged to do so at home. A real shame...Will Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927492067445164618noreply@blogger.com