Happy World Book Day
Happy World Book Day ๐๐
โThat's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.โ โจ๐by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ๐ ๐ Iโm often asked by applicants, how do you know WHAT to read when prepping for Oxford Uni? This is a great way to look at it - start with a text you enjoy and then from that text make connections elsewhere. For instance, I read Virginia Woolfโs โOrlandoโ which was on the school syllabus, from there I went onto read her diaries and other novels, including โFlushโ ๐Flush told the story of the Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browningโs dog. They were both poets and this led me to read their poetry. I then learnt about the contexts in which these texts were written and developed a fascination in all of them with the role of women in literature.
So itโs true there was no end in sight...one text kept leading to another...โบ๏ธWhilst these are literary examples, the same method of picking things out of whatever youโre reading and running away with them, can be applied to all subjects ๐