Reading, Writing, and Me

Back to school is funny in grad school, or at least in my limited experience of it. My program (an M.Phil in creative writing) is so different than anything I've done before in school when it comes to structure and expectations, but at the same time, I've been doing this school thing for a long time. I've tried to put a lot of thought into the systems I've used before—what worked and what didn't—and adapt them to the needs of this new school endeavor that requires something different than what I've really encountered before.  The way my program is set up, we have classes 3 days a week for about nine hours total. The majority of the time required for the degree is outside of classroom hours. We have to generate a fairly significant amount of creative work (though nowhere near the number of assignments that undergrad requires where you have to regularly turn things in to prove you're paying attention), do a pretty overwhelming amount of reading for each class ...

Disappoint Me  by Nicola Dinan  Overview: Max falls down the stairs at a New Years party, and her life begins to drift in a new direction, away from her break-up with Arthur and her poetry collection and to a phase of life where she learns to love domesticity with her new boyfriend, Vincent. She hits it off immediately with Vincent and then her story begins to descend into the dramas that befall daily life—secrets that eventually come out, health scares, forgiving your parents, etc. By the end of the novel, Max's life is full of questions once again, and she has to decide if she wants to keep running or turn around and face them head on. Overall: 4 Characters: 4 I like Max and her voice. She has that sad girl lit vibe that I tend to eat up (I mean, look at the cover). She works as a lawyer training AI for this online company but has also published a book of poetry and is a part of the queer arts scene in London. She goes through an interesting evolution over the course of the ...