#i'm CERTAIN i'm missing books on question 26 but my memory is really the worst

[canonicallyanxious]

12, 17, 26

Thank you for these Allie!!!

12. Do you need to finish a book before you can move on to the next one, or will you have multiple books going at once?

I sometimes have multiple books going at once but ideally i best operate reading one book at a time?? idk it’s just easier for me to focus that way, like i know if i try to read multiple books at once it’s going to take even longer to finish all of them whereas doing one book at a time is more efficient for me, idk. I do currently have two books I’m reading, murder on the orient express and a poetry collection, but i’m putting the poetry collection on hold until i finish the agatha christie novel anyway lol

17. Do you know any poetry by heart?

LOL I WISH i do know the first line of the Canterbury Tales prologue which is something like whan that aprill with his shores shote or something like that bc we had to memorize the first like twenty lines for bonus credit in a 10th grade english class but that’s really all i remember skdjfnsdkfsnd

26. A book you studied in school and ended up loving?

Shit so many actually lol i’m a huge nerd who liked pretty much everything they read in school... sorry bout it... uhhhhh idk if i can remember all of them tbh considering both my majors required like a shitton of reading but imma do my best!

High school:

Devil in the White City - Eric Larksen

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

Hamlet (play) - William Shakespeare

College [english]:

The Bride of Lamermoor - Sir Walter Scott

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Sula - Toni Morrison

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem - Maryse Conde

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga

We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

Cloud Nine (play) - Caryl Churchill

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Clifford’s Blues - John A Williams

Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin

Maus - Art Spiegelman

The Photographer - Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert, and Frédéric Lemercier

College [anthropology]:

With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India - Gayatra Reddy

Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry - Tanya Luhrmann

Righteous Dopefiend - Jeff Schonberg and Philippe Bourgois

Bookish asks!