How to Read Literature Like a Professor.

So this is my first time doing this sort of thing and I'm not exactly sure how to do it..... But here goes.

When I read this bit from the book, I immediately knew it would be the part I would use for this blog.  I really like it. ^^

But we haven't read everything.

 Neither have I.  Nor has anyone, not even Harold Bloom.  Beginning readers, of course, are at a slight disadvantage, which is why professors are useful in providing a broader context.  But you definitely can get there on your own.  When I was a kid, I used to go mushroom hunting with my father.  I would never see then, but he'd say, "There's a yellow sponge," or "There are a couple of black spikes."  And because I knew they were there, my looking would become more focused and less vague.  In a few moments I would begin seeing them myself, not all of them, but some.  And once you begin seeing moral, you can't stop.  What a literature professor does is very similar: he tells you when you get near mushrooms.  Once you know that, though (and you generally are near them), you can hunt for mushrooms on your own. 

( from page 36 in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster)

  

When I read this passage it encouraged me to keep on reading this book! I thought it was going to be so dry and boring... And at some parts it is a little boring, but it's not what I thought it was going to be!  I like how the author is so.... Truthful.  He says beginning reader is at a slight disadvantage, I'm glad I'm not a beginning reader! ^^  I love how he uses something that we can relate to well , picking mushrooms with his dad, as the example.  It makes it seem... I don't know, so much more real to me.  He makes it seem easy to start reading like a professor, and maybe it is.  all you have to do is start to see the mushrooms, and then you cant stop seeing them! ^^  

I can't wait to read the other half of this book. ^^

well, it's not very good, but it's my first time doing this, hopefully I'll get better at it. ^^