I should be studying for my Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Spanish Composition final exams tomorrow. Instead I am being distracted by literature on the Internet. At least it’s relevant.
First, while looking for online quizzes of plot details from Tristram Shandy (a largely fruitless quest, which you’ll know if you read the whole thing like I did), I found DailyLit. The site will send you an email daily, thrice-weekly, or weekdays-only email with a section of dozens of classics books. You can read more than one chunk if you have time, or take it bit by bit. As you’re checking email or RSS feeds, you can finally conquer Great Expectations. I might try it out.
Second, after reading a “stroppy” tirade about the (London) Sunday Times/Faber Literary Book Quiz, I decided to try it. I actually knew three or four from the 2007 competition, one of which I learned in English Lit this semester. It’s so nice to know that I can, in fact, remember random details that no one except rich British publishers cares about.
