As you can see by the title, I am not a big reader. I only read when I have to for an assignment or if my mom makes me. Reading is not "my cup of tea" so I just choose not to read when I do not HAVE to. Reading is like a foreign language for me: DIFFICULT. I have chosen not to read because it usually drives me COMPLETELY insane. My mom never read books to me at night when I was younger, she was never a big reader either. My whole family is actually not readers either. When they were younger, they never read books or focus on reading. They ere too busy hanging out with their friends and work. My brothers never read either while they were in school. They did the same thing my parents did. I am just the same! If I am not playing sports or doing my homework, I am usually trying to hang out with my friends to catch up! Needless to say, reading is not at the top of my list.
When I was a little, petite girl, back in the third grade, we had this system of reading known as AR. I could not tell you what it stood for because that was a LONG time ago. We had to meet a certain goal of points at the end of the nine weeks. We would take an hour out of our day to read a book and take test on the computer to get our points. Each book had points that they were worth, and if you took a test over the book, you would get those points. The bigger the book, the more points you would get. The really smart people usually had a lot of points along with a really high goal to meet.
I remember my friends and I would read the tiniest books so we could get done with them quick. We would read like ten books a day so we could get ten points each day. We had a specifc goal we had to meet according to how good you are as a reader.I was never very good at reading so I had a really low goal. I would pretty much read the smallest books so I could meet my goal in like a week.
Throughout my middle school and junior high years, I BARELY read! If my teacher gave us an independent reading assignment, I would, but other than that, I did not read. There was, on occasion, you would catch me reading a book. I tried to get into reading a trying to understand books, but I just could not do it. It was just not my "specialty".
If you asked me now if I read, the answer would still be no! I never have time to just sit down and pick up a good book and read. Whenever I have free time, I am usually doing homework. I will still read for an assignment, just not for fun. I do not know what it is about me, but I just cannot read a book for pleasure. I think in my brain, 'There are better things to do then read.' I mean I guess if I did read I would have a bigger vocabulary and probably would make better grades and would probably be smarter. But I guess that's not who God wanted me to be. This is the life of a non-reader.
