Bad Faery

Monday, December 01, 2008

Absence and presence

December 1 already and I’ve managed to not post a single entry for the month of November! An entirely unplanned break - it just sort of happened. In fact I’ve barely spent anytime online that hasn’t been Open University related.

So what have I being doing with my time? Reading for the most part- the books above are a selection of my leisure reading for the past month. I guess it’s the time of year. It’s dark by 5pm these days, and cold, a perfect time for curling up in front of the fire and escaping with a good book.

I have also been very organised with my Christmas shopping and have purchased almost all of my gifts - hurray for the internet! It really does take the hassle out of shopping. While I’ve bought a few gifts online for the past few years this is the first time that I have done nearly all my xmas shopping this way.

I have also been enjoying my new OU course, A210, and spent much of November fairly engrossed in the history of the realist novel, reading amongst other things Jeremy Hawthorn’s Studying the Novel, an excellent and concise text that I would thoroughly recommend to any English Lit undergrad and Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic, a book that is referenced frequently in my course materials and which has proven very interesting reading - again I would recommend it for anyone studying A210.

I have already completed the first block and my first two assignments. Happily I have received distinctions for both so I am very pleased with how it’s been going so far. My tutor, who I shall probably never meet in person as the tutorials are too awkward to get to, has given me very good feedback on both assignments. I did my second assignment on Frankenstein - a very appropriate book to be writing about on ‘a dreary night of November’!

Posted by Bad Faery on 12/01 at 09:43 PM
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