![]() So, one day, it must have been sometime earlier this year, I found myself on TikTok (when I was definitely not procrastinating but merely taking a break from psychologically analysing Marcel’s characters in Combray for an essay), and stumbled across this phenomenon called “BookTok”.Īs many of you probably already know, BookTok is a niche on TikTok where people show what books they are currently reading, recommend their favourites or record themselves having mental breakdowns to the song “Achilles, Come Down”. ![]() But I’m sure a lot of literature and language students will agree when I say that sometimes we just need something different, something that is not Marcel Proust describing a roof in the sunlight for seven volumes straight (not to call him straight or complain about his books, his descriptions are impeccable). Even in between terms and during summer holidays I find myself trying to complete the massive reading lists, which is usually fun, since I actually like my course. ![]() ![]() ![]() Image description: a large wooden book case with many booksĪs a French student at Oxford, I do a lot of reading, whether it be entire volumes of poetry, chunky novels, philosophical texts or the “Cambridge Companion to _” when the next essay crisis is just around the corner. ![]()
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