Making regular blog posts is proving to be difficult—but if I can’t make posts that are particularly insightful or original, I thought the least I could do is share some of the cool stuff I’ve been reading for my classes (and there has there been a lot of reading). I’ve read only oneContinue reading “READ! The Monster by Stephen Crane”
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READ! East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee
When I first moved to New Zealand from Korea in first grade, I knew nothing about Korean literature beyond Korean folktales I read in the form of picture books. I only opened my eyes to the joys of reading when I started reading in English, first to better my grasp of this new foreign languageContinue reading “READ! East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee”
The Overwhaleming Moby Dick
Reading Moby Dick for the first week of grad school seemed oddly fitting to my recent experiences at orientations bombarding me with new information, and new classes in which I was exposed to unfamiliar names, concepts and theories that the other students animatedly discussed in the face of my shrinking self-confidence. The monstrous book isContinue reading “The Overwhaleming Moby Dick”