I Suck at Reading Because it’s Boring

Every other day or so here at Study Hut Tutoring we’ll have a student of ours do a reading assignment in here with us. A lot of kids that we have do this moan and whine “reading is boring, reading sucks, I suck at reading.”

Reading first and foremost should be entertaining. When I talk to the kids who say “reading sucks” about what books they’ve read, they really haven’t delved one iota into the many different kinds of writing and modern attempts at deviate characters that make the last century of literature so interesting. It’s not that I’m dead crazy about reading, it’s not like every book under the sun rocks my world.

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