Reading & Rambling discussion

Are there any books you lied about reading (in school or otherwise)?
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When I was in high school, there was this book we had to read for literature class. It was so long ago I honestly don't even remember the title, but I think it was some kind of historical fiction based on my country’s history (I dont remember clearly). Maybe I’d think differently about it now but back then it was so boring—I’m sorry! I couldn’t get through a single page without my mind wandering. I read a couple chapters during class time because we had to but I never actually finished it. I read online summaries for the other chapters. I still passed the class (because if I didn’t, my parents would’ve killed me), and all without torturing myself too much 😅.

I feel you're pain Ray haha. Some of those books they made us read just didn't hit well. Would have rather read the text book 🤣

I wasn't always the massive book nerd I am now. When I was in high school, I had a brief period where I wasn't into reading. We had to do book reports monthly for English class. We had the luxury of picking our own books so I always picked books that had been adapted to films I had seen, then I'd write a report based solely on the films depiction of that book. I was never caught but regret it to this day haha. Luckily I grew out of that phase quickly, maybe the guilt helped in that regard 😆

I would also rather read the text book. 😂

I think I would have enjoyed my literature classes a lot better if I could have chosen my own books. Being forced to read stuff I didn't enjoy kind of killed the vibe.

That was a creative workaround though. Do you remember any of the books you "read"?

In middle school, I believe it was 7th grade, I lied a lot about reading books or only read them halfway through because there was a reading challenge over who could read the most books in 30 days (I finished most of the books but if I got bored I just wrote them down as finished). I got second because a teacher’s daughter beat me. I still got a target gift card though 🥳

Madelyn wrote: "In middle school, I believe it was 7th grade, I lied a lot about reading books or only read them halfway through because there was a reading challenge over who could read the most books in 30 days ..."

I think we all got rewarded for creative dishonesty 😂

Soooooo, by the time I hit high school, I had already read the majority of the required readings. I had already read Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, The Kite Runner etc. (only Romeo and Juliet and The Scarlet Letter were first time reads for me). My excuse for why I was like that was because when I was 11 I got a major surgery and was in recovery for 3.5 months; I was bed-bound the majority of that time and I got bored of TV real quick. So I read and read and read. And then when I was done reading I decided to read ahead and read whatever I knew I was going to have to read in upcoming English classes. There really wasn’t much else to do (though that is when I got into video games).

When I hit college is when I stopped reading books I was supposed to. Mostly because I had to read hundreds of pages of articles for classes every week and that did not include the additional novels on the side. Now that I am presently not in school, I’ve been trying to make up for the books I neglected to read but was genuinely interested in. One such work I was supposed to read for a Death and Dying class that I finished sometime last(?) year was Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. I really enjoyed it and am glad I went back and read it!

Ratdaddy wrote: "Soooooo, by the time I hit high school, I had already read the majority of the required readings. I had already read Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, The ..."

That totally makes sense. Glad you're getting back to the books you missed.