If you had to choose a text which you feel represents your generation and your culture, what would it be? Is there a specific genre or author you like to read? Many of my students of English enjoy reading Science-Fiction. This year, we studied some Gothic Literature, which included a mix of Stoker, Poe and The Simpsons! Do you think it's important that students study literary texts such as those by Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde? Or is it better to keep up with modern trends? Do you read comics or manga?
How have your reading tastes changed as you have become older? Do you still have fond memories of any particular stories, legends or tales?
My favourite texts from my childhood: Marita Conlon-McKenna's Under the Hawthorn Tree, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori.
Favourites as I've gotten older: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, anything by Ian McEwan, the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and, most recently, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.
Do you have a favourite author or text?
