How to Read Literature Like a Professor

VERY insightful for AP students. Personally, I felt as though it improved my close reading and annotating skills, but the book was so mundane. I found myself dreading reading it simply because of the pure, unadulterated boredom I felt when I was reading. Moreover, there were so many literary and film references to older, more complex works and as a someone from the younger generation, I was so lost, rendering many of the examples a bit useless if there was no mini summary or blurb about the book or film before the analysis.

That being said, it is very helpful and Foster provides a very fascinating analysis for “The Garden Party” at the end.