danajohnhill.org | Hard Times Come Again No More

Today is the first day of the Fall 2008 semester, and already I am met with a surprise.  It seems that my lofty goal of getting a head start on my reading for a course I’m taking about the Eighteenth Century novel has been thwarted.  I had been reading Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, but I now find we will instead read that author’s Roxana.  Such is life.

An observation: of the thirty-one students in class this morning, only ten were male.

Filed under: Literature and Books, School on August 25th, 2008