Why You Need to Read the Book

Today, a student boasted she'd caught up on the Literary circles because she'd read the sparknotes. Now I use sparknotes to refresh my brain if I read the book and am mentally drawing a blank, they have a place. I survived Faulkner by reading and rereading, and using the Cliffnotes to explain to me (or try to, see yesterday's post) what I actually read. So I get using summaries to help put