Strike Three

Things are not looking up for my American literature class’s reading list.

1. I do not like Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
2. I do not like “The Jolly Corner” by Henry James.
3. I do not like “Melanctha” from Three Lives by Gertrude Stein.

All of the reading is interesting, but is it too much to ask that it be enjoyable too?  If I weren’t required to read these books for class, I would not have finished – no, nor even begun – reading them.

And what do I have to look forward to in my other class?  Ferdinand de Saussure and Mikhail Bakhtin.

At least O Pioneers! by Willa Cather is coming up soon in American lit.  I will write my paper on that book, I think.

(There: I posted.)