Reading Is Hard Novels & Stories

Still as miserable as I was, I could feel it through our connection. The bond pulsed. Ached. Pulled. I shoved my books aside and grabbed my laptop instead. Maybe I could at least catch up on some reading for English class. We were supposed to finish three chapters by Friday. I opened the digital textbook and stared at the first page. Read the same sentence five times without absorbing a single word. Finally gave up and closed the laptop. Three hundred and twelve more hours. The number felt impossible. Insurmountable. Like trying to count grains of sand on a beach.

"This book looks worn out... How long have you been reading it?" She asked confused. "To be honest, I don't remember..." Aurora chuckled. "I have been trying to read this book since I was in school but I still haven't completed it..." "Why?" Katrina laughed. "Having difficulties connecting with the book?" "Maybe..." She shrugged. "Whenever I try to read this book, I zone out then I realize that I am just reading it, not understanding it... Many things happened, my father used to hate it when I used to read fiction so I had to read it while hiding somewhere... Then I got into high school, homework and Aria's harrasment... Then my parents died and I had to take responsibility... Something alwa

I sat in the floor and opened the mother I took from mother's room. While flipping through it in mother's room, I saw a story that got me interested. The story about the humans. I flipped to the page and settled to read it. I tried reading it hut there were words that were too hard to read and that made it uninteresting. It only I went to school and know how to read, then I wouldn't be having a problem reading. I closed the book in disappointment. "Not able to read?" a familiar voice asked behind me, but that made me flinch with my heart beating fast. I looked at him and placed my hand on my chest, breathing heavily.

The funny thing was that I was still feeling hungry. "You need to exercise your muscles, lest they become atrophic." He said and I stared at him. "And you know this how?" " Learning. I read a book." "You read a book?" "Is that so hard to comprehend?" "Well... I don't know, you don't strike me as one who would want to read a book, especially on pregnancy or parenting. It's still weird. I can't wrap my head around it." "Better do because it's true. That rhymes, maybe I can begin a music career."

“Aren’t these books too complicated for you to understand?” “Why does everyone ask me that? Well, I love reading them, and understand what I can. But I do read them without letting mom know about it. She says it’s too difficult for me to understand.” I chuckled, and sniffled. He was exactly the way I do act when I was around his age, or a little older. “Come over here. Let’s see how much you know about business books.”

My responsibility was the same as before, the only difference was that I could sit down and read a book while Matthew worked. Reading for a while, I started to feel tired. Recently, I had no interest in reading as before. If during the new school year, I was still lazy like that, then I would definitely not win the scholarship. Moreover, I would have to retake the exam. It couldn't be like that, so I forced myself to study hard. Although I was very depressed, I still tried to keep my eyes open to read the book. After reading about thirty minutes more, I really couldn't stand it anymore. I took out my phone, played with it for a while, then fell asleep without notice.

She did not seem like herself the past couple days, but she would not tell Colby or myself what was going on. I snuggled her closer as she continued to read. When she made a mistake, she would get very mad at herself. “Amelie, what is going on?” I ask her softly. “Nothing, I just don’t like making mistakes,” she murmurs more to herself. “I can do better,” she says as she starts over from the top. I listen to her read for a bit longer until I realize she is starting to struggle with her reading. Reading is one of her top subjects, yet she is here struggling. Taking the book from her little hands, I set it aside.

And, we are still stuck with English. "Umm, it's just kinda... uh, hard to... be familiar with the participles of verbs. I just get a little confused if I could meet a different word from what we have been learning. Because you have said it yourself that there are more than a thousand verbs out there and... I just... that's too much... too many to remember. And... confusing as fuck. You don't say readed for past form, right? Or should it be added with have, has, or been? Singular? Reads, right? Present tense? Reading? I don't know." She reasoned out in frustration and I just stared at her very stressed face.

I haven’t heard of any of them. How did Justus learn to read? Can everyone in Last Pack? I was always told that they can’t. I flip through the book with the sun on the front. The font is small, and the paragraphs are long. I skim the first page, but none of it sticks. My eyes slide along the words like they’re buttered. I’m about to put it back when someone whistles outside the den. My fingers fumble, and the book falls, wide open and face down.

Nolan stacked the last book with the same neatness he always did and pushed his chair back. “I think that’s enough for today. Don’t force it or the words blur and none of them stick in your mind.” I rubbed at the corners of my eyes. They stung from squinting so long at letters that refused to stay still. My head throbbed like it wanted to remind me that I wasn’t built for this kind of work. “I’m slower than you’d like,” I muttered.