Assignment 2 Garrett Peavler

        Okay, I'm going to be honest, I don’t read for fun. The only time that I read is when a teacher assigns me a book to read. And I think that is what ruined books for me in the first place. Ever since kindergarten, reading and school have been synonymous with each other  and, for me personally, that has caused reading to be more work than fun, especially since I usually had to read books that I didn’t like or wasn’t interested in. I’ve always been a slower reader, which has added to this feeling, as it increased the time that reading these books would take and because I wasn’t interested in the books that the teachers assigned, I ended up harboring a lot of negative feelings toward reading. 

All this is not to say that I don’t read. I read plenty of articles, I just don’t read books. I like my reading to have a purpose and to be concise. So reading fiction books or long-winded, 800-page nonfiction books is just not something that I derive joy from. I may eventually change my mind, but this is how things stand right now.