I’m attempting to read 100 books in a year. That’s approximately two books a week.
But I’ll get back to that.
When I was in elementary school, my teacher didn’t like Hooked on Phonics, so he didn’t use that to teach us. That was the year to learn phonics, and I missed out.
It has resulted in my absolutely horrible pronunciation of words. I hate reading out loud in classes because I get nervous and mispronounce simple words I know.
See, I’m perfectly fine at speaking – I hear words, and I know the meanings. Spelling them or seeing a word I use can be difficult at times, though.
I credit my vocabulary completely to reading. The Harry Potter series made me want to read.
I’ve noticed that my Facebook posts consist of “That’s awesome,” or “This is super cool,” or “Amazing.”
Fail whale for me because I’m also a creative writing major.
I know I haven’t read as many books the past few years because I’m reading articles for the paper or articles for research papers or novels for my class.
But I’m going to do my very best to read 100 this year.
Not only have I noticed that my Facebook posts are boring, but I’ve seen more and more errors on Facebook. I’m as guilty as anyone.
Some of these “errors” are not errors – I think people really don’t realize they made a mistake.
The most common word I’ve seen misused was “aloud,” as in “I’m not aloud to go outside today.”
Sure, I gave people the benefit of a doubt. Hey, they were in a rush and it just didn’t hit them.
But then it happened to the same person at least three times.
I really do understand that people make mistakes on social media, but three times using “aloud” as “allowed”?
I’ve heard so many college graduates say they never want to open a book again. I get it – school work/books are not fun.
But if we don’t continue to read, I don’t think our generation will expand themselves much more.
We are in college, and we are here to get educated and get degrees. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to look dumb because I stopped reading.
I know not everyone loves to read like I do, but try reading something other than BuzzFeed (60 percent of what I do online nowadays…).
Read the newspaper. Read the book that’s about to become a movie. Buy a book of poems and read one a day.
So while I take this challenge, I dare you to read more than you usually do. It doesn’t have to be much. But just know, I will judge you if you spell “aloud” instead of “allowed” more than once.
Also – if anyone has some incredible books for me to read – send me an email with the book/author.
