Half Full

So, I am going to do something a little out of character for me... so bear with me. 

I started reading "Unpacking My Library" by Benjamin today in study hall just to try and get a head start on it. The last few essays have been really long and dense, so I was thinking that if I read a few pages a night carefully that I would be able to finish it in time to write the essay, and I would (hopefully) understand the content more.

I was dreading even starting it after having read the last few, but I got myself together and started reading (I figured if I had some sort of brain aneurism someone would take me to the hospital [I was in the library not the cafe. No one in the cafe would have helped me.])

To my surprise I actually liked the first two pages that I read! I was literally shocked! I NEVER like those kind of hippie-dippy interpretive stuff. But, I genuinely liked the pages that I read (I bet only the first few pages are good in order to lure you in and then the long words/sentences come out and get you. It's like some sort of literary trap!).

I think that I liked it because, unlike the other essays, it is told in a more fictional way. It is told like more of a story than like an analysis or interpretation. I am actually not dreading reading more and writing a paper on it (this does not mean the paper will be good, I don't want for you all to put that pressure on me).

Anyway, I just thought that I would share my shock and amazement with all of you, since I'm pretty sure that I am the resident Negative Nancy when it comes to reading weird literature in our class. I'm trying to be more optimistic like I said to do in my last post. I guess that this is a pretty good start...