Writing About Reading

Errr.... Reading. Reading. Um.... I read. Quite a lot actually. Hm. Wait, scratch that, I didn't read a page of a book last summer other than the assignment book. I didn't even get a good grade on that since I didn't get into the book. I had better things to do than spend an hour a day trying to read these not-connected-at-all chapters of a book with too many storylines. To be honest, I was so impatient to finish the book I rushed through the last chapters and didn't even bother reading the last couple paragraphs. Yeah, I know. That's probably why I got a 88% on that assignment.

But anyways, forgive me for rambling about stupid stuff, I should get to the actual blog question. So yeah, I can only really read in a quiet enviromnet. Sure, I can get through a few lines on the bus or something, but if I do that, I get distracted by someone's conversation or the bus jolts to a stop, then I have to check if that is my stop, so then I end up reading the same line over and over and over. I usually just give up reading somewhere that's not quiet. So I don't read in loud places. I read in my room usually after dinner since I'm not allowed on the computer after dinner. I sit in that one uncomfortable chair there in the corner and force myself to read. Then when my brother does homework he sits by the desk which is right on the other side of my room. And he distracts himself. He probably has ADD or something like that. He taps on the desk with his pencil and on the wall. And since the wall is on the other side of my room, I can hear it and it somehow gets super magnified. Then I tell him through the wall to put his ear on the wall so I can tell him something then I hit the wall. Hehe, its actually super funny.

Well, I sometimes space out and I ramble soooooo much I probably have some phyciological problem or whatever, but I'm too lazy to worry about that. Actually, I worry a lot. Which brings me back to mental problems. But whatever. So, when I get a book I look at the cover. If it's an ugly cover, I just can't bear to look at it so I put sticky notes over it and draw my own cover. :) But still, that weird looming feeling that there is still an ugly cover still bothers me. Yes, I DO judge a book by its cover. Seriously. But if it has a pretty cover, then I check the flap or whatever to see the summary and get it if I like it. Once I get down to actually reading, I get through first chapter or two, and that usually decides whether I read the whole thing. I don't like high diction at all, which is why I had so much difficulty with the summer assignment, even though I didn't have a formal diction book.

But I like to read. If the book is good. Which most books are not to me, since I'm super picky when it comes to that. But I only read fiction, because non-fiction books of any kind bore the crap out of me. I don't get why my brother ONLY reads them, I really don't. So I just read fiction. Except I don't read fiction books that are about history, slavery, religion, or friendship. Not like friendship in a book, I mean a book about friendship. Like that one book about how the Jew and the Catholic or whatever 'try to work out their differences and become BFFL's.' Yeah.

Sigh... That's enough ranting for this week.