DIY LITERATURE DEGREE - year one check-in
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2024
- I'm halfway (well, a little more than) through year one of my DIY literature degree and I thought I would do a little check-in and share how things are going and things I want to do better in the second half.
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Christie here! I have always wanted to do a DIY literature master's degree. I have an English Lit bachelor's, but the cost of getting a master's was just too high for me. What I really wanted was a Comparative Literature degree, but you have to speak multiple languages, so that also stood in my way. I've wanted very much to do a reading list for that but in English (translated versions). Thanks for inspiring me to, once again, look into doing this.
YES, VICTORIAN ERA! My favorite time period-it's what I write in historical fiction. Dickens's serialized works were so popular back in his time period, people used to wait at the docks in the USA to get the latest installment of his serialized novels. What an amazing level of book love.
Christina Rossetti's poetry is incomparably beautiful in my opinion, although my favorite poet is Keats.
I also recently read Poems and felt the same way about it. It’ll go on my shelf to try later and I still appreciate his work, but it wasn’t something I was getting a lot out of right now. I’m glad to hear your update. Thank you for your video.
Also, my daughter has fallen in love with L. M. Montgomery. I told her we can do more of a focus on her work in our homeschool if she’d like that.
Love this idea! Also love Wodehouse...the Jeeves books are laugh out loud hilarious. Good audio book reader for those on Libby.
I used your inspiration to start a “seminary degree” DIY. Love the idea.
I love this series so much! C.S. Lewis is my male author of the year and we’re tracking similarly in a lot of our reads. I highly recommend An Experiment in Criticism if you haven’t read that by him yet. He discusses what makes a good (and bad) reader and what makes a great book. It really influenced how I read now!
Another great golden age author is Ngaio Marsh. Her books set in theaters are my favorites.
You've made a lot of good progress so far! 🥳
I've been looking back at some of my reading and I feel like I've unintentionally started doing my own DIY literature degree on the Brontes. Since October, I've read 2 nonfiction and 1 fiction book about their lives, a reimagining of Jane Eyre (My Plain Jane, with you), and I'm wanting to read Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and The Glass Town Game soon. This was not what I had in mind when I picked My Plain Jane last year, but I'm realizing I'm actually enjoying immersing myself in a topic for the first time since college.
I was so excited to see this update video pop up! You've done a great job! I'm going to go back and watch your original video and try to move past my severe decision paralysis so that I can finally make a plan for myself. 😊
Great job! Have you read Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South? Pure light read. I really liked C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce. I have discovered Patricia Wentworth, also from the golden age of detective fiction. I just finished Latter's End and Lonesome Road. Both are light, fun reads. I read A E Housman 's poetry book, A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896. It's really accessible and a quick read (small book!). I am trying to read some Russian literature so just finished Three Apples Fell From The Sky by Narine Abgaryan. It is a very different, really enjoyable read. Happy reading!!
I read North and South last year (or the year before?) and loved it!
I love this so much! A great intentional way of exploring literature! I've decided to focus on Tolkien this year. I just finished a collection of his writings on the Fantasy genre and mythology called Tree and Leaf. I really enjoyed it!
Well, that's one way to handle the winter blues!!!
Yay great job!!!🎉🎉
Have you read An Experiment in Criticism by C S Lewis? If not, I highly recommend this!
I also recommend listening to The Literary Life podcast as they follow Lewis’s school of thought and tradition. It’s been so enlightening to me and has changed how and what I read.
Same! Just read that one this year with the podcast.
I second this!
Try David Copperfield!!!
This DIY lit degree sounds like a lot more fun than my actual lit degrees were. 😂😂😂😂
Catching up on Booktube! Hopefully, your move is going as smoothly as it can! 😅🙏🏻♥️ Have you read Our Mutual Friend? Audible includes some PG Wodehouse audio! You can never have too much Maud Montgomery!
I did try to set this up...failed to execute ...so I feel inspired to try again! I got stuck on who the mentor should be...but great options have been suggested here. I am tempted to choose Dickens but his books are so long I would never get through many. Historical Fiction and how literature tells the story of our world is where I feel so drawn. If anyone has ideas for which mentor would best fit that I would love to hear it!
Wow you're doing great! I would recommend reading David Copperfield I finished it a couple months ago and it was one of my favorite Dickens' books. It's thick but goes surprisingly fast.
Have you ever watched @Tristan and the Classics? He covers lots of time periods but has a playlist re Teach Yourself Classic Lit Course. He is so informative and fun to listen to!
George MacDonald would be a good literary mentor.
I read Josephine Tey's Inspector Allan series in order and really enjoyed them. I don't know if I would have out of order.
What about Ngaio Marsh or Marjorie Allingham?
You should read the Great Divorce that is a really good one!
A really interesting contrast to Lewis would be Nietzsche.
Wow you are doing a great job, Chantel! I, on the other hand, am not😂
Dickens is my mentor, and I haven't even made it through Great Expectations.😬 Clearly, I need to step up my game.😆
Have you read Pilgrims' regress? I believe it was the first first book Lewis wrote after becoming a Christian. I haven't read it, but I own it.
I can't believe we are already talking about a year two I feel like I am going to be on year one for 5+ years!!🫣