I am now an overthinking machine!

How To Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster was definitely a mind bender, it made my way of reading feel like child play. In the book, it mainly discusses new ideas and ways to look deeper into something while you are reading, the advice the book gives is great knowledge that is perfect to learn for new book lovers. However if anyone has believed that they are an amazing reader without reading this book than they need to think again, they may have missed more than they know. Overall I can say this book is more learning based, directed toward people who love reading and are interested to know more than just the front cover. But if you are assigned this book in a class like me, you may be more than thrilled to know that this book has lots of comedic relief, and can be entertaining during most of its chapters.

While reading this book, unlike most of my classmates it was difficult for me to get reeled in. Maybe because there was no direct story or plot since there was only pages and pages filled with examples and how to analyze them to find hidden concepts. Although many of those pages were interesting, I can’t say this book is something I would reach for again unless I am confused about something. Even then, I felt this book did do what it was intending to do correctly, as now I am more open to rereading sentences to see what it really means. One of the chapters that made me hang off the edge of my seat was definitely when he began to talk about how no story is original, as it all follows the same outline, which is true, for every story, there is always a quest and some kind of obstacle. This made me think about everything I’ve ever, watched, read, and heard, I was astonished, after reading this I know I’m going to be over analyzing everything. Overall this book taught me about symbols, themes, and what food scenes really mean. Although this book is not one of my favorites I know it is going to help me when reading in the future, as I now have the chance to dissect a book and truly understand literature. Overall I’m glad to say I’m excited for what is going to get assigned next since apparently everything is not what it seems.