Sustained Silent Reading Time

Reading silently to ourselves is a very boring time for me. I am one who doesn’t usually take reading all to seriously. I feel like it’s almost a punishment when being forced to read, I will read for my own pleasure when I get time between school work and sports. When I am in my own zone I can’t put a book down. But when I am told to read it almost feels like a chore for me. Just like a parent would yell out "go do the dishes," being told to read feels like the same tedious chore. I didn’t even finish a whole book during the entire first semester while in class for SSR. Instead I would just pick up the same old tattered library book I had checked out in the beginning of the school year and fumble through those pages. When time was up and it was time to go to my next period I felt as if I had wasted my time putting my nose into a book I wasn’t even interested in. I could count the times I actually felt like reading during SSR time. I believe that now that I am older I should be more interested in reading what other authors have to say but I honestly don’t. Most of the books I have read are from references who say the book is good. This year alone I haven’t even gotten through an entire book without becoming bored of it. There are only a few times when I do feel in the mood to read but it seems that whenever I do time slips away from me. Books a thousand times better than the movie 99.9% of the time. I feel like getting back into the habit of buying books because I want to, not because I need to. Hopefully next semester I will have some better luck in finding a intriguing book for me to indulge in. I would gladly like to hear from who has recently read any good books while I was letting the time pass me by during SSR time. Second semester hopefully I will have an interesting book to write about.