How to Read Literature Like a Professor

This book is like a cheat code for people who read but aren’t going to go to college and major in literature. Mr Foster takes you through aspects of literature such as setting, symbols, characters. It’s a nice resource for mapping out your reading list if you are trying to expand your tastes. I read the book in pieces because the punchline to every chapter it seems is, “if you haven’t read much then you won’t know that X is a symbol for Jesus (or death or whatever) and you just need to read more”. Anyway, another way to use this book is to simply go through the stories/books he references (which is summarized in an appendix) to see what you may not have read and what looks interesting. Anyway, this is a handy little book for non-literature-majors.