Helloo! R, here! Now, that is one fabby Reading Idea *g* With the A Level results out this week and Goddaughter's grades eagerly anticipated (A* for Textiles, which was the only one that mattered - has a place at Birmingham - "Well Done C!"), this got me thinking of, oh so many Jurassic Periods ago, the books I read for A level English. And wondered if I still had any them, possibly to re-read, myself... I quickly recalled all but one: Poetry: Selected Poems of TS Eliot (including The Wasteland, Prufrock...); The Nun's Priest's Tale (from Canterbury Tales) - Geoffrey Chaucer; The Metaphysical Poets - a collection including Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Andrew Marvell... Plays: King Lear and The Tempest - William Shakespeare; The Wild Duck - Henrick Ibsen (the first year a play-translated-into-English had been studied in England at A level...) Novels: Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens; Emma - Jane Austen; and... and... Nope, cannot for the life of me remember the third novel and it's not on the bookshelf. But they can't have all been bad, as every other tome is! *G* Happy re-reading! Will look out for what your titles are/were, and how you feel about them now, vs. back then. R
Re: Reading Idea
Date: Friday, 19 August 2016 10:01 pm (UTC)Now, that is one fabby Reading Idea *g*
With the A Level results out this week and Goddaughter's grades eagerly anticipated (A* for Textiles, which was the only one that mattered - has a place at Birmingham - "Well Done C!"), this got me thinking of, oh so many Jurassic Periods ago, the books I read for A level English. And wondered if I still had any them, possibly to re-read, myself...
I quickly recalled all but one:
Poetry: Selected Poems of TS Eliot (including The Wasteland, Prufrock...); The Nun's Priest's Tale (from Canterbury Tales) - Geoffrey Chaucer; The Metaphysical Poets - a collection including Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Andrew Marvell...
Plays: King Lear and The Tempest - William Shakespeare; The Wild Duck - Henrick Ibsen (the first year a play-translated-into-English had been studied in England at A level...)
Novels: Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens; Emma - Jane Austen; and... and...
Nope, cannot for the life of me remember the third novel and it's not on the bookshelf.
But they can't have all been bad, as every other tome is! *G*
Happy re-reading! Will look out for what your titles are/were, and how you feel about them now, vs. back then.
R