Oxford: Day Ten and Eleven
I’ve been quite busy for the past two weeks, but now that my essay is written and submitted, I can update the backlog of travel notes in my brain! I […]
Oxford: Day Five and Six
On August 12th, I decided to have a relaxing day before travelling to London on Saturday. As such, a visit to Oxford’s Botanic Garden seemed the perfect retreat. The University […]
Oxford: Day Four and Five
Below: a cast taken from the statue of Laocoön and His Sons. On August 10, I visited Ashmolean Museum: the oldest university museum in the world, constructed in 1683! The amazing thing […]
Oxford: Day Two and Three
Day two was a bit hectic because, as the next day after settling in, it was dedicated to attending the first lecture, sitting through a safety/college orientation in the Chapel, […]
Oxford: Day One
The realization has not set in fully, yet. But I am in Oxford, England. I will not indulge myself in relating the romanticized, even if candid, history of my imagined relationship […]
Anne Shirley and the Pleasures of Reading for Pleasure
Almost a year has passed since I last read or wrote for pleasure. Those conveyor-belt days were spent worrying, wrapped up in busy nothings or passed in the comforting monotony […]
D.A. Miller: Jane Austen or the Secret of Style
I decided to read this book as part of Austen in August, as well as my personal project (rather, attempt) to read more literary criticism. I think this is my […]
