Reading Week

category: Academic, Reading
by Soph,

This week is reading week at university, which means I have no lectures or seminars and am able to focus on catching up on my work and reading. Today I’ve been enjoying not having to go to any seminars and I haven’t really done that much work. I’ve nearly finished reading ‘The Knight’s Tale’, which I’ll try to finish tonight so that I can start my translation work on it. My plan for the next few days is to try to get as much of my French work done as possible, including the pieces that don’t have to be handed in until Thursday or Friday of next week. I’m not sure how successful I’ll be in doing this - only time will tell! I do need to get into my new French text, which is a play by Racine called ‘Phèdre’. Today I went to the university bookshop with the hopes of finding an English translation of it to read first, but it looks like they’ve sold out. I’ll try to find something in the library or online instead, because reading Racine is a bit like reading Shakespeare, except not only is the language old fashioned, it’s also in French… tricky!

I’ve put up all of my HaikuWriMo entries in the poetry section - they can now be found under ‘Autumn Haiku’. Last year the organiser of the HaikuWriMo used lulu.com to create a booklet of HaikuWriMo highlights, featuring five of the best haiku written by each person involved. Only about fifteen of us did it last year, whereas there were about forty haijin involved this year. I’m not sure whether that makes this more or less likely to happen, but it would be nice to get another little booklet of HaikuWriMo works.

Everyone seems to be doing very well on their NaNoWriMo exploits…keep it up chaps!

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strugglingwriter | 05 November 2007, 21:01
What did you think of ‘The Knight’s Tale’? I haven’t read Chaucer yet, but have always wanted to.
John | 05 November 2007, 21:53
Ooh sounds like the reading is going well already! I still think the translation work is really fun, although the novelty has probably worn off for you a little? The French however sounds less appealing to me. Shakespeare was tricky enough to understand in places!

I hope another booklet is made, it was really beautiful last year :]
Absolute Vanilla (and Atyllah) | 07 November 2007, 10:58
Ooh, a little booklet of haiku would be cool, do let us know if it comes to fruition. I’ve so enjoyed reading your haiku that I’m inspired to read more.
Soph | 07 November 2007, 17:08
strugglingwriter: So far I’ve loved all of the Canterbury Tales that I’ve read. The Knight’s Tale is your typical romantic/courtly love story, while the tale that follows on straight after it is told by the Miller, so it’s much more crude and extremely funny. Chaucer is definately worth a read if you have some time to spare
Jenny | 11 November 2007, 20:20
Ooh, have fun with that! Sounds like a nice little break for you guys to catch up on your work

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