AP Lit reading

For the past few days, we have been concentrating on reading novels: The Sound and the Fury
and our outside reading book, in my case, Memoirs of a Geisha. Reading these two novels
at the same time, I had very contrasting and different feelings about reading. Before AP Lit, I
read books only for fun, without annotating and analyzing every page. Although I didnt read much either, whenever I did read a certain book, I enjoyed it and finished it with positive feelings.
However, ever since I've been in this class, I have been taking literature much more
seriously, and honestly, that has made me lose some of the interest I had for reading. I was very tired
of all the analysis we had to do in class for every book/poem we had to read, books and poems that I didn't
even enjoy. But after reading The Awakening, I started to become hopeful again. Yes, there
were still books that interested me. Yes, there were also books that I could UNDERSTAND. In the
days of holding onto that hope to last me a few more weeks of first semester, we HAD to come across
probably the worst book cbosen in AP Lit: The Sound and the Fury. This book, is just a no. Not only
is the story so bland (To me, I don't know about what other people in our class think. I don't think
they like it that much either.), it is also written with one of the most confusing style of writing.
BUT! All hope is not lost! The outside reading we were required to do wasn't a pressure to me but I'm
very thankful that we were given this assignment. I was in the process of finding every literature
in AP Lit very dull and horrible, but the book I read came to be very pleasant. I chose to read
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden as my outside reading book. I finished reading the book in 3 days.
Although it wasn't as good as Harry Potter which I finished reading in only a couple of hours, (:D~) it
had been a long time since I read anything with so much focus and excitement.
I personally believe that good piece of literature is that it has the potential to keep the readers' attentions.
Memoirs of a Geisha had all the potential to keep my attention and keep me excited for literature. However, The Sound and the Fury did not have me hooked; not even for a single page. In my
very own and personal opinion, this novel is not a good piece of artwork. The purpose of writing
should be either for learning or enjoyment. I don't think that The Sound and the Fury is either.
Reading both a very great book and a boring one has given me mixed feelings about reading.
To end this blog on a good note: I guess by exposing me to all the different types of styles and works
of literature, I'll be able to have a greater and more insightful view of the even more complex world than some of these complicated books.