This term I started out with what I thought was a pretty easy reading goal. My goal was to read at least two hours every week, not counting the time we read at the beginning of English. I read many articles, mostly things from Buzzfeed, and The Onion. I also started rereading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when I was in school, outside of school I just finished reading A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Overall I don’t think I met my goal, because some weeks I wouldn’t read at all and other weeks I had read for probably fifteen hours or more, and I never had a very consistent reading schedule. I’d rate myself around six or seven because I definitely read enough, I just wasn’t consistent with my reading throughout the term.
My goal was both too easy and too hard for me. Too easy because I have read enough hours, but too hard because of how consistent my goal forced me to be with my reading, and I guess because of that I learned how bad I am at getting myself to do things I don’t want to do, and I found myself thinking things like “I’ll just read tomorrow” and “Reading is fun, I’m going to want to read someday! Just …show more content…
The book is about two best friends, one who’s very happy, good at athletics, and the other who is very smart, but he’s so envious and bitter towards his friend, to the point where this jealousy completely consumes him and he becomes so full of envy and hatred, he actually intentionally hurts him. So I think one of the biggest lessons from this book, is to not let jealousy take control of you, or act on it. And that’s one of the reasons why I love this book so much, because of the lessons that come with it, and also how much I can relate to the main character. We share the same flaw, which is how jealous both of us can get, even over the littlest things, and this book really helped me cope with that in a
My goal was both too easy and too hard for me. Too easy because I have read enough hours, but too hard because of how consistent my goal forced me to be with my reading, and I guess because of that I learned how bad I am at getting myself to do things I don’t want to do, and I found myself thinking things like “I’ll just read tomorrow” and “Reading is fun, I’m going to want to read someday! Just …show more content…
The book is about two best friends, one who’s very happy, good at athletics, and the other who is very smart, but he’s so envious and bitter towards his friend, to the point where this jealousy completely consumes him and he becomes so full of envy and hatred, he actually intentionally hurts him. So I think one of the biggest lessons from this book, is to not let jealousy take control of you, or act on it. And that’s one of the reasons why I love this book so much, because of the lessons that come with it, and also how much I can relate to the main character. We share the same flaw, which is how jealous both of us can get, even over the littlest things, and this book really helped me cope with that in a