Literature review

y Two is a Book Review of ONE OF THE NOVELS/MEMOIRS we’ve read thus far: 
Luster/ Dear Friend/ Afterlife/Call Me By Your Name.  Choose ONE of these works to focus on, then choose EITHER 1. Afterlife OR 2. Call Me By Your Name to compare this main book . Both of these novels have been reviewed many times by many scholars, critics, students, and random people online. So the kind of review you will do is a bit different. Here you will offer a review with THREE distinct features that make it a review suited to our class, to you as seniors. The essay should be 6 double-spaced pages (min) and 8 double-spaced pages (max). No more than 11 point font. 

a. Includes a short summary of the novel so that your reader, who has likely NOT read this, gets a sense of the novel
b. Describe the way you read this novel–how you look at it and why, through what lens– and how any other critic or friend or experience or reading experience informs the way you read novels. Here the reader of your review will decide if they are interested and trust and care about you as a thinker/reader/writer so you’ll need to give us some insight into the way you read 
c. Offers your particular point of view on this novel–a review means to “view” or see again. The reader needs to know why they should be interested or intrigued and read it or why they may want to avoid this novel. The point of view should be a take, an argument about what this novel is trying to do and for whom and what makes it a NOVEL that instructs, delights, or both
d.  Persuades  your reader that this novel is part of something –connects to other novels or other genres or cultural material (plays, songs, websites, tv shows, movies, etc). The reader needs to know what this novel is like or not like
e. Essays or is an essay: an attempt, a “try” at an idea and a perspective, that presents the reader with a take, with something good to read, so that even if the reader decides not to ever talk about this novel again, they will be interested in you as a book critic because you have brought us into the world of the novel and the world of your reading and thinking
f.  Critiques–will engage in a critical (angled perspective, particular point of view, from a particular ideological, political, social, epistemological, perspective, that JOINS and PARTICIPATES in a critical conversation. Thus you will need at least twice in the essay (but no more than three times) to quote from, explain, and describe the critical perspective of two other critics. the critics you should choose to cite and join in on in their conversation are the critics we read for this course. Please only cite ONE book review–the other one or two critics you should cite should be from the other essays assigned for the course
g. Concludes engagingly: will have an engaging send off for the reader  that tells us something about where you think this book or its author or even you as a reader will go next 
This essay is a review with a MEMOIR. You include some way this novel speaks to your or not as you take consider the past years of being an English major. 
This essay is a review that contains a CLOSE READING of at least THREE passages, two from the main novel you are reviewing and one from the comparison novel