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Saturday, May 21, 2011

day fourteen - reading for school

Day 14 - Favourite book you’ve read academically

i read a lot for school. even though i honestly only read what i have to read. i can barely remember titles to be honest as i have read so many. for instance, in the first term of fourth year i read 30 books for one class. don't get me wrong, i skimmed but i had to know the gist of them.

i really enjoyed punk rock so what? edited by jon savage. i read it for my historiography in first term and my thesis in second term. punk is a really difficult topic to write about and savage and the writers he includes in the text show a real appreciation and understanding of what british 1970s punk was.

i also enjoyed a book called oil. i had to read this in my third year political sociology course. the book is really interesting and gives the history of human consumption of oil. it reveals agreements signed between countries and what countries have done to protect or get control of the worlds oil.

another was a book called native son written by richard wright. wright was an african american writer who wrote in the harlem renaissance in the 1940s. native son was a really interesting read and i would recommend it to anyone looking to understand racism and the treatment of african american individuals in the united states. i read this in a third year history course called the african american experience.

tis all!
ray charles

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