English Major Humor

for the @guardian review (last year)

As a professed Connoisseur of Russian Literature, I can definitively state that the most Authentic way to read Crime & Punishment is in a cold sweat, over a period of 48 hours, without sleeping, desperately hiding the book under desks and other textbooks hoping you won’t be caught reading it in your other classes, blowing off plans with friends and family without admitting that you procrastinated reading this book, in an increasingly mounting state of panic about failing your upcoming timed writing about this book that YOU STILL HAVEN’T FINISHED AND IT’S NEXT PERIOD OH GOD WHY. There are themes in that book that won’t fully emerge unless you do exactly that.

Totally unrelated question: Do you ever just have flashbacks to high school?

“i did like it that a lot of the characters died. i guess i was into the drama.”

when i was a kid i thought Sense & Sensibility, War & Peace, Pride & Prejudice, and Crime & Punishment were a series

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(I know they weren’t alive at the same time / this rivalry was one-sided, but a girl can dream)

Brian reading Crime and Punishment. (Ready, Willing, and Disabled, S03E15)

Must reblog.

Or as my dad puts it, punishment for a crime readers haven't committed

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Someone asked for a Crime and Punishment post!