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+321It's easier to read MLIA's, FML's, and amirite's than it is to read a book for school, amirite? Also about school, read, and book
+290Where did wizard born children in Harry Potter learn to read and write? The book didn't say anything about school before Hogwarts, and the people don't know what guns are, or electricity, or a lot of other stuff most people learn about in elementary school. amirite? Also about school, read, and book
+383Teachers at the end of the school year: "Oh, you thought you had all summer for yourself? Guess what, you get to use that free time to read this book and write a paper for it for it, then you get to read these three other books and take notes, plus you'll have a test first day of school, so study for that..." Amirite?
In eighth grade we read...go ask alice. I think it was for cautionary purposes. But i enjoyed it at the time.
I really cant remember what else was curriculum or what i just was reading.
Imagine that:)
I also had a cat named casey jones...
1984 by George Orwell and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
Probably Lord of the Flies
I can't remember a single book I had to read in school that I enjoyed, but I did like several short stories.
"O Alienista" by Machado de Assis.
It was a comical story around a psychiatrist and the definition of crazy. Super cool.
The first one I can think of just now, is Kipling's The Jungle Book, when I was was in the 6th grade. It was strongly suggested that we read it over some school holiday. As I recall, I was the only one who actually did, and I won a copy of the book.
That really bugged one of my classmates, me being the "new kid", and all. We became best friends, not long after that. :)
I was never required to read any particular book. I read books and have always done that.
I wasn't required to read any books. We had a choice of what to read, and then give a report on it. lol
Favorite childhood book? Mmm... I'd have to think about it.
The Good Earth is my all time favorite but I don't think anyone ever had to "make" me read a book.
A friend of mine asked me to read a book, The Sheep Look Down, not one that I would ever pick up, but it stayed with me these many years later.
A Tale Of Two Cities was great. Hatchet and and Where The Red Fern Grows, too.
slaughterhouse five , it was strange and different
When I was a kid, Homer had just completed the Iliad. A while later a sequel - The Odyssey came out and was all the rage. He came to speak to our class one day. I couldn't go - I had the mumps.