18 June 2025
A former A335 student has been kind enough to send me most of the set books they had bought for their studies, for which I am immensely grateful. There’s a couple of books that are missing which I need to buy. It’s always good fun finding copies of books online. (In return, I’m going to give away my A334 sets to someone. If you’re after a set of A334 texts, do get in touch!)
So far, I’ve listened to 5 hours of Bleak House whilst driving. I’ve also started to read the text since my concentration can necessarily drift whilst overtaking juggernauts on the A1. Since starting to read the text, I’m getting more of a feeling the characters and their importance. I’ve packed my newly acquired (and much thumbed) edition of Bleak House for my current travels, but I’m going to be taking my Kindle on holiday; 900 pages is a lot of pages to get through.
Since my mystery package of books also contained the module blocks, I’ve had a quick skim through the first two. I’m really looking forward to Mayhew’s London Labour and London Poor and, as mentioned, the George Elliot text. The lack of drama texts in this module is striking, but I understand we’ll be looking at two drama texts: one by Synd and another by Hare.