Booklists and tumbleweed
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When I made this blog I did so with the intention to keep it updated regularly, so far I've failed epically at this but being in uni every day wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, which is odd and really bad considering I used to work near to sixty hours a week when I was travelling.
My classes are going okay though, I think my favourite so far are Screenwriting and Westerns. My Fiction class is good because I'm studying two books which I studied last year at uni so it's not all new information and History is fairly easy as it's a class with 300 or so people in it so I can be happily inconspicious the entire time - the only down side is that it's all based on exams and I've learnt that I'm not that great when it comes to exams...or essays...or studying in general but because the marking system is different in the US I'm trying not to slack off like I did last year.
So far though this is my reading list for one semester:
- Louisiana: A History
- Twelve years as a slave
- Earl of Louisiana
- No Country for Old Men
- Screenwriters Guide (by Syd Field)
- Wild Sargasso Sea
- On the Road
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Lolita
- American Short Stories by Bert Hitchcock
- The Virgininan
- Banditti of the Plains
- Deadwood Dick
I had made a rule that I wouldn't buy as many books as I did when I was in Australia as it just adds unnecessary weight to suitcases but I've already succeeded. What's worse is that I had to buy two copies of Banditti of the Plains and Louisiana: A History after I left them in my Fiction class and now have no idea where they are!
I did do my first set of quizzes though in my Fiction and Westerns class, for the Westerns class I got 88% which is a B/B+ depending on which grading scale you use which I was happy about seeing as I'm normally a C average student. So maybe (on a wing and a prayer) I can not fail at the US education system!