Zoë Lance.

  • What I Read: March 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here’s what I read in March: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller: I hadn’t read this book in high school or college, so while filling a ThriftBooks binge I decided to give Catch-22 a go. I knew that it was a…

  • What I Read: February 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here is what I read in February: Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison: I bought this book from ThriftBooks a few months ago because I had heard the title and the author’s name multiple times in college classes. I…

  • What I Read: January 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year here. Here is what I read in January: Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow: As you may know, I loved the musical inspired by this biography of the Founding Father of the United States and the country’s first Treasury Secretary.…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Thrift Books

    The only bad thing about having an appetite for literature is that buying books can get expensive very, very quickly. Taking multiple literature classes at one time left me with a pile of good books to read but a dent in my checking account. Having to buy 10 or 12 books at one time gave…

  • Culture Connoisseur: The Best Books I Read in 2015

    In 2015, I read a respectable 41 books. While I attribute part of the 41 to being a literature student, I read most of the 41 in the last six months post-graduation. I told myself that I would work on filling in the gaps of my literature education and catching up with recent releases, and…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Black Literature in the U.S.

    I originally signed up for ENG 205, Black Literature in the U.S., for two reasons. One: I needed some extra units. Two: It’s with my capstone professor, so I was already familiar with how rigorous the class was going to be and what was to be expected. Seven weeks into the class, I can say…

  • Undergrad Adventures: ENG 451 Presentation

    Last week, I got an email from my capstone mentor asking me if I wanted to give a presentation on my last capstone paper in his Modernism & Postmodernism class. So I took part of the afternoon off of work and went and gave what ended up being a much bigger presentation/discussion. Despite none of this being for class…