Reading Update

As you may or may not be aware, I am reading Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms for my AP English book. I am about two-thirds of the way and I am thoroughly enjoying it (as much as one can enjoy a grim book about World War I). Last year, in my first real foray into Modernist literature, I liked both of the books that we read from that period, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and I was excited to read more. I also have a bizarre (some might call it "unhealthy") interest in World War I and the various literature that goes with it. Thus far, it seems like Hemingway does a great job of illustrating the horrors of wartime Europe while also making it personal for the reader through Lieutenant Henry and his burgeoning romance with Catherine Barkley. Overall, I am enjoying the novel and I look forward to writing an essay about it (that last part is a lie).