Literally any book that you now dislike due to school. This also applies to other literature styles as well.

Mine is The Hunger Games. I had to read it las year in school and it drove me insane. We started doing the novel study in early February and didn’t finish until May. I finished the book in less than two weeks, so I was pretty much just reading personal books all through English class for close to two months.

It’s not even like we had to analyze it super intensely. It was projects like ‘Make a playlist for a character of your choice’ and we had vocabulary tests every week, that were a joke. It was multiple choice for words like quest and forage. I know that English wasn’t everyone’s first language but come on.

I didn’t even like the book that much in the first place, so all of this was just adding to the misery.

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    10 months ago

    Summer of the Swans by Betsey Byars, sixth grade (11-ish). It’s a fine enough book, but I could (and did) read it twice or more in a class period, and listening to my classmates stumble over every other word bored me to tears, literally. Additionally, we weren’t quite old enough for the main character’s self-criticism to be relatable, so I didn’t find the book itself interesting. My mom went to the school to see if something could be done and it turned out that despite my reading comprehension test scores they had left me out of the advanced class for no reason. I was moved soon after.

    Middle school, man. You couldn’t pay me enough to do that again.