Hello, all! ReadingHannah is soon coming back from its summer hiatus. And I've got some exciting news for you!
With the fall starting up surely and steadily, ReadingHannah will now feature a new set of distinct literary reviews. There will be six book reviews coming around in the upcoming weeks (alongside regular reviews, which will remain in the same format). These reviews are tailored to an academic audience and will serve an exciting purpose; from these reviews, one final book will be chosen as a candidate for the mandatory Honors College freshmen read! These book reviews will cover a series of criteria not otherwise seen on ReadingHannah, including the book's readability, its applicability to myriad academic disciplines, and whether or not the book is (subjectively) interesting enough to keep the attention of the impressionable youths.
If one of these books is chosen by the board, all of the incoming freshmen at the University of Arizona will be receiving a copy for free. They'll discuss the book in their courses via a lesson plan cultivated by yours truly. If the author is alive/accessible/not wildly expensive, we hope to bring them in to speak with the freshmen about their oeuvre.
Subscribe for updates now to see which book makes it to the final cut. For this particular assignment, the books in question all have something to do with the theme of transformation. And the nominees are...
TRANSAPIENT by Andy Brown
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE by Neil Gaiman
THE BURIED GIANT by Kazuo Ishiguro
BLUETS by Maggie Nelson
SEVEN BRIEF LESSONS ON PHYSICS by Carlo Rovelli
(in alphabetical order by author last name, of course).
Watch this space.
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