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Concluding the course :(

We did it! We reached the last week of the semester and completed our assigned books! I learned a lot about how I read, what kind of reader I am, and what books I enjoy and don't enjoy. This is my second romance studies class; I took 201 in the first semester of my first year. I genuinely appreciated that we got to choose our grades and have a contract to follow to ensure we received the grades we wanted. I have grown throughout this course with the way I read. I was a slower reader at the beginning of the course and had trouble comprehending the material we were given. For example, in Marcel Proust's  Swanns Way , I needed help understanding and following the sentences and how they were structured. I tried my best and wrote a blog post using the parts of the book that made the most sense to me. Aunt Leonie was my favourite character, so I wrote about her.  The next book I read was  The Shrouded Woman  by Maria Luisa Bombal, which was interesting. That Novel caused me to think