Required Reading

Required Reading: Books For the Apocalypse and Survival Tampons

Books post by Caitlin Hu on May 21, 2012 - 9:06am; tagged Required Reading, the end of civilization.

a snare in the forest made from a stick propping up a log. The stick is tied around with a string, and its labeled TAMPON STRING

It's 2012. Are you ready for TEOTWAWKI?

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Required Reading: Aya de Yopougon

Books post by Caitlin Hu on March 12, 2012 - 9:30am; tagged Aya de Yopougon, Required Reading.

AYA

Although she has some great comebacks for street harassers, our hero Aya is otherwise as problematic as your typical Disney heroine. Luckily, the graphic novel “Aya of Yopougon” is really about Aya’s lying, fighting, partying friends: Bintou and Adjoua. They’re not role models; they’re just teens in the Cote d’Ivoire, where virginity is paramount, but so is being “saved” by a man. A beautifully illustrated, happily skeptical story.
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Required Reading: A ______ of One's Own

Books post by Caitlin Hu on February 20, 2012 - 10:47am; tagged books, high school, reading, Required Reading, Virginia Woolf.
In this blog series I want to look into “required reading,” how it’s taught, and what we (should/could) get out of it. Which classics take up the most space in the collective memory? Is there something worth remembering from the dudecentric classics of high school book lists? (I’m looking about you: To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Huck Finn, and Lord of the Flies) What about from Mrs. Dalloway, Beloved, and Pride and Prejudice? What makes literature unforgettable and important to fledgling feminists? And what new works should become required reading?
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