I am foremost a student, a person secondarily, and finally a reader. I'm probably bound for university professorship one of these days, sure, but don't let that get into your head. I don't have a definite idea on literature, or even about most of the books I'm reading. For the same reason, they're likely to fall in the gray zone and when they...
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I am foremost a student, a person secondarily, and finally a reader. I'm probably bound for university professorship one of these days, sure, but don't let that get into your head. I don't have a definite idea on literature, or even about most of the books I'm reading. For the same reason, they're likely to fall in the gray zone and when they do, you can always count on me to only half recall what they're all about. I should say I'm more interested in books as texts, as an execution of language and sociolinguistic differences, which would reflect the second language learner enthusiast in me.
I generally suck as a critic and am ironically a whore to critical theory. I don't subscribe to published educated reviews because all they ever serve me are huge disappointments. Perhaps I'm just a traditional or otherwise a mediocre reader, but I as sure as hell don't have tolerance for lowbrow lit.
Apart from that, I'm twenty-three, female, and from the Philippines.
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