Reading For Enjoyment

Through high school and undergrad, debate colored my view of the news. Almost every time I read about domestic or international policies and issues, I did so with the question of how information in the article could give me a competitive advantage lingering in the back of my mind.

Learning to read the news simply to be well-informed has been an interesting and fulfilling change. I will admit to processing similar thoughts as before, except in the context of wondering whether the subject would make for an interesting paper topic--but that question is less relevant and less present.

I'm undergoing a similar change in literature. Now that I read case law rather than Victorian literature as homework, I've had to adjust to reading books because I enjoy them rather than enjoying them but also wondering whether I'll have to comment on the political implications of the ending of Jane Eyre.

All in all, I've enjoyed the change. I think I'll always read differently than I did before participating in debate and taking literary theory classes, but I don't find that to be a bad thing.