there are house showings and I have to let people in and then stay outside on the porch while they wander around the house for twenty minutes before deciding they don't want it because it's falling apart.
Oh. That sounds pretty dull.
Have any books that you haven't read yet lying around?
^^^^ I was going to ask if you had a library card, but then I remembered what you told me about your local library. Maybe you could look through the county catalogue and see if they would put an order out on some interesting books so that you could check them out there. Up until a certain incident, I used to do that all the time.
I am mildly surprised that you only have seven books to your name, though. Did you sell a bunch or did you just take most of your reading material out of the library?
^^^^ I was going to ask if you had a library card, but then I remembered what you told me about your local library. Maybe you could look through the county catalogue and see if they would put an order out on some interesting books so that you could check them out there. Up until a certain incident, I used to do that all the time.
I am mildly surprised that you only have seven books to your name, though. Did you sell a bunch or did you just take most of your reading material out of the library?
I've read basically the entire library, but I stopped reading very often when I entered high school. So, a little of A and a little of B, I guess.
I also gave some of my books to my little brothers, but I never actually owned many in the first place. I find it hard to concentrate on reading nowadays.
(I have a lot of books, but that's because up until I was about fourteen, my family was reasonably well-off. After that point, things declined significantly, so the intake of new volumes gradually decreased...)
I've read basically the entire library, but I stopped reading very often when I entered high school. So, a little of A and a little of B, I guess.
I also gave some of my books to my little brothers, but I never actually owned many in the first place. I find it hard to concentrate on reading nowadays.
I can understand that. You don't strike me as someone who doesn't read, just someone who hasn't been reading a lot lately.
That said... reading is relaxing. If you have the time to do it, when doing something like house-sitting, it might be a good way to just unwind a little. You've clearly been under a lot of pressure lately, and I think that could help, if just a little.
(I have a lot of books, but that's because up until I was about fourteen, my family was reasonably well-off. After that point, things declined significantly, so the intake of new volumes gradually decreased...)
(I have a lot of books, but that's because up until I was about fourteen, my family was reasonably well-off. After that point, things declined significantly, so the intake of new volumes gradually decreased...)
also at the risk of potentially offending people I think Discworld is a YA series and thus technically below my reading level. That's not necessarily bad but I'd feel awkward reading it in public.
also at the risk of potentially offending people I think Discworld is a YA series and thus technically below my reading level. That's not necessarily bad but I'd feel awkward reading it in public.
There are certainly YA Discworld novels, but the overwhelming majority of the series is decidedly aimed at adults. Pratchett has a habit of making his prose a bit obfuscatory. He'll not outright say a thing but still expect you to know what he meant.
also at the risk of potentially offending people I think Discworld is a YA series and thus technically below my reading level.
It isn't. Except the Tiffany Aching books, which explicitly are. Discworld proper is mostly satire, in Pratchett's own unique way.
Yeah, this. He wrote a handful of children's books and teen novels in the same universe, but most of it really isn't. Which is not to say that books for teenagers and children cannot be deep or clever, but really, a lot of the cultural references would go way over most high and middle schoolers' heads.
On a tangentially related note, I am disappointed that my family was unable to rent a double bass for me to learn on in elementary school. I really wish that I had classical string training, particularly on that instrument. Plus, tiny boy, huge bass. It would have been hilarious. That's why I chose to learn it. But that didn't pan out...
really tho hitting the max on the reading grade level chart thing early on in elementary school + having to write book reports on books that were around my level as enforced by a loathsome teacher was not a fun experience
really tho hitting the max on the reading grade level chart thing early on in elementary school + having to write book reports on books that were around my level as enforced by a loathsome teacher was not a fun experience
I can imagine. Bad teachers in elementary school are the worst...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
really tho hitting the max on the reading grade level chart thing early on in elementary school + having to write book reports on books that were around my level as enforced by a loathsome teacher was not a fun experience
really tho hitting the max on the reading grade level chart thing early on in elementary school + having to write book reports on books that were around my level as enforced by a loathsome teacher was not a fun experience
really tho hitting the max on the reading grade level chart thing early on in elementary school + having to write book reports on books that were around my level as enforced by a loathsome teacher was not a fun experience
I didn't have that problem with books (I did max out the reading level pretty quickly though) but spelling was a nightmare. My fourth grade teacher made me do words I couldn't spell and- honestly I'm beginning to think I might have a bit of obsessive problem- I started crying because every time I saw a word in the dictionary I remembered how to spell it.
I cried a lot when I was younger. I couldn't help myself. Every time I forgot my homework and every time I couldn't understand how a math problem worked. It was weird.
really tho hitting the max on the reading grade level chart thing early on in elementary school + having to write book reports on books that were around my level as enforced by a loathsome teacher was not a fun experience
past me you are excessively american
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I'm watching this, but yeah.
I also gave some of my books to my little brothers, but I never actually owned many in the first place. I find it hard to concentrate on reading nowadays.
Not because I have some dislike of Discworld, I just don't read much anymore.
'nuff said about my relationship with books.
WarThunder? I think? Awhile ago and I never finished it even though I liked it.
I forget the title of that book actually, thunder-something.
well what do I know, evidently.
RIP
English was my best subject at primary school and spelling was never a problem for me, but i didn't learn to read particularly quickly, afaik.