Day 5 5/14

 One of the gifts of this project has been reading for fun again! However, there is just a lot of reading to get through. Emily St. John Mandel's storytelling ability makes Station Eleven extremely enjoyable. The fact that this book was written in 2014 makes it feel like a premonition of the COVID pandemic, which plays perfectly in terms of using literature to express themes of pandemics. I do feel in my course design I am behind schedule slightly in making lesson plans, so going forward I think I'll have to mix reading and drafting agendas instead of separating the two. 

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