As an English Education major I already read more than the average person. This yearn to read has carried past required reading and on to pleasure reading. Chances are most of my blog posts will be about something I read but I'll try to mix it up every once in awhile. Recently, I read Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in a classic American short story anthology. It was a good story but was drawn out way to long in the beginning. It is hard to not give anything away by speaking about the story so I will keep it short and say that when Ichabod Crane encounters the Headless Horsemen the reading is worthwhile but I felt that Irving could have written so much more around it than he did. It was still worth reading and I now understand how so many alternate takes on the story have been created since his story. If anything he paved the way for stories to come inspiring people for the last several centuries. Branches of that story are always popping up and that is sure to be a story that is used as a template for many more years to come. If I were to suggest a Washington Irving story to people it would be "Rip Van Winkle" over "Sleepy Hollow" but it always comes down to preference. I guess just read both.