I couldn 't find a way to make myself interested in the things I was reading. Every year there was a new summer reading assignment and every year I didn’t read it. I would try to but along the way I would end up opening Sparknotes and reading the summaries of each book instead. At times I felt bad because I knew that I should be taking advantage of the access I had to those books, but they bored me. I longed to be able to dive into books and absorb everything in them, but I couldn’t get more than my toe in the water. Surprisingly, English still became my favorite subject. I no longer had the dreaded accelerated reading I had to do in middle and elementary school. I was still forced to read some books that I didn’t enjoy during the summer, as I said earlier, but I liked some of the things we did during the
I couldn 't find a way to make myself interested in the things I was reading. Every year there was a new summer reading assignment and every year I didn’t read it. I would try to but along the way I would end up opening Sparknotes and reading the summaries of each book instead. At times I felt bad because I knew that I should be taking advantage of the access I had to those books, but they bored me. I longed to be able to dive into books and absorb everything in them, but I couldn’t get more than my toe in the water. Surprisingly, English still became my favorite subject. I no longer had the dreaded accelerated reading I had to do in middle and elementary school. I was still forced to read some books that I didn’t enjoy during the summer, as I said earlier, but I liked some of the things we did during the