Can we talk about how much I read in a week?

For my American Lit class...

By Tuesday:

• Web reading on Naturalism: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/natural.htm
• Read Intro 1
• Jack London textbook introduction (pp. 1811-1812)
• “To Build a Fire” (1908), by Jack London (pp. 1812-1823)
• Stephen Crane textbook introduction (pp. 1765-1768)
• “The Blue Hotel” (1898), by Stephen Crane (pp. 1784-1803) 
• Our Norton anthology includes a few excerpts from Crane's "War is Kind."  Please read the final two stanzas on p.1805. 

By Wednesday:

• Begin reading American Literature, 1914-1945 (Norton 1837-1856)
• Read Intro 2
• “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915) by T.S. Eliot (pp. 2006-2009)
• Read the Norton intro for E.E. Cummings (pp.2135-2136) and the poems “Buffalo Bill’s” and “next to of course god america i”  (pp. 2138-2139)
• Read "Mearl Blankenship" and "Absalom"--both from Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 :
  Rukeyser (pdf)
  The text is from Rukeyser, Muriel. U.S. 1. New York: J.J. Little and Ives Company, 1938.

By Thursday

•  Fitzgerald intro in Norton (pp.2147-2149)
• "Winter Dreams" (1922), by F. Scott Fitzgerald (pp. 2149-2164)
• Ernest Hemingway textbook introduction (pp. 2203-2205)
• "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938), by Ernest Hemingway (pp. 2205-2221)
• W. E. B. Du Bois textbook intro (pp.1715-1716) and "Souls of Black Folk" Chapter 1 (pp. 1717-1722)
• Edwin Arlington Robinson textbook intro (p. 1857) and the poems "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevy," and "Mr. Flood's Party" (1858-1860)

For my regular Lit class... 

•  "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
• "The Moths" by Maria Viramontes

For my Creative Writing class... 

• "My Life with the Wave" by Octavio Paz
  

This is what I have to READ; it does not include what I have to WRITE. And while much of this is pleasurable, it's still categorized as, "For School." I like to read for pleasure, too. Last week I read a whole book (plus a few fanfics) on top of all this and schoolwork. When people say they "don't have time to read," I roll my eyes. Make time! The benefits of reading are astronomical. Recently I was at a party and people kept complimenting me on my vocabulary (which is basically the best thing ever for a nerd like me). Not only does your use of language improve, but so does your knowledge of human nature, culture, history, psychology, etc. etc. Reading is the bee's knees. Go pick up that book you've been meaning to read!