By now, you should have finished reading your text, and be thinking carefully about the key theme(s) and how it is/they are developed. Make sure that the theme you settle on is the best thing to be writing about. Do some background reading to confirm your ideas.
- Sparknotes isn't a bad place to start.
- Wikipedia will also have something for most of your texts.
- You could try the publisher's page, which might be Faber & Faber, Random House, Transworld or another.
- The Guardian Books website has lots of archived articles to search. The Times has a decent books section as well.
- The BBC books website has plenty of stuff, and if you're lucky, you might find an author interview on Open Book.
- If you aren't getting anywhere with that, you could try a Google search, but try to be specific in what you're asking for.
- Lest we forget, there are plenty of good books in the library. If it's a well-read piece of classic literature you're reading, there may well be some study guides there for you. Ask Mrs Grimmond or search Alice.
Also, please refer back to your first RPR, and the comments that I lovingly made for your continued development. I don't do it for fun.
Find out if anyone else is reading the same text, and see if you can share ideas. It's always good to discuss books.
If you have any questions, make sure that you ask me sooner, rather than later. If you stay on top of this task, it really won't become a major headache.
Have fun.
