School didn't destroy it, but it made it seem like it was a bad thing. When I was in middle school, I was required to take an art class, I always finished my daily art project early and would pull out whatever book I was currently into and start reading. I was told I wasn't putting enough effort into my work, even though that's objective, cuz it was ART CLASS. How can you say MY ART wasn't good enough. I got called to the Principal's office several times and even had to have my parents come in for a conference with my teacher. Who admitted my artwork was fine, but I was more interested in reading, like that was a negative thing. My mom actually got mad at the teacher for giving me that much of a problem for FINISHING my work and then reading a book. That since I wasn't causing a problem in class, like talking or being disruptive, there was no reason for them to be harassing me. Love her for that, hate that teacher for calling me out for wanting to read in my spare time. Sorry for the long response...
I got in trouble too lol I got school detention for it but that was bcuz I was reading during class. The teacher was giving an announcement to something, not really teaching anything, but they gave me detention cuz I wasn’t paying attention 😅
I think the problem is that you weren’t doing it in your spare time but during class. Did you ask if you could read? Did they not have any extra work you could do? Did they give you feedback on your work that you could improve on and just chose not to? Teachers can be unreasonable but were you really in the right?
@sorntrash I wasn't, but my thought at the time was that, if I was finished with my work, and I wasn't disturbing anyone, what was the problem with me reading? Everyone else that has finished their work early was either being loud and messing around or just chatting with their friends, while I was reading.
I understand. They likely had a Tall Poppy syndrome and enforced it as the world commonly does: to read in class seems (to competing egoes-and they always are;) exclusive, standing-out&apart, nonparticipatory and sort of exempt; from the rules of-so to characterize them-muggles. Specially since reading fiction is a quietly transporting pastime and transcends the mundane-on top of that you had completed your other obligations, so that would put you in the enviable-and risky: so ¿unenviable?-position of "looking smart and irreproachable." Bill Hicks had a memorable bit about it in Relentless: “What are you reading for?”; Brontë's Jane Eyre starts with the protagonist as a young child just reading by the window during rains and it being kinda all she ever wanted.-It’s not on you!
Listen to me, I tell people the exact same thing. I 100% feel you. College ruined reading for me. Before that, you could not pull me away from a book. Now, when I look at a book, I feel like it's work. Trying also. ❤
There’s a theory that bookish children who grew up and couldn’t get back into reading werent really fantasized by reading but the escapism because our childhoods sucked.
I still love reading, but it's hard for me to sit down with a regular book and just read through it I tend to read fanfiction and manga now, but I do still enjoy longer books like The Belgariad and The Journey to the West :)
they integrated silent reading when i was in high school and those were the best moments of peace i got at school. they suddenly took it away and it broke my heart.
I used to love reading so much my mom would take my book away as a punishment until I calmed down But now thanks to middle school reading feels like a punishment
I absolutely *hate* reading in school. We’re reading and I’m really getting into the scene in my head, then we stop reading for like 10 minutes to analyze the obvious, then I have to try and get the scene back in my head. Then once I do, we have to stop again and the process repeats. It makes me so mad.
Imo it was actually less that the books were boring and more that I was so overwhelmed with homework that I didn’t have any TIME to read for fun anymore. And the assigned reading that I wanted to enjoy, I had to rush through in order to make deadlines. It re-wired my brain into thinking of reading as something I associated with feeling stressed out, rather than enjoyable. I say this as someone who would read books for fun under my desk well into high school.
True Story: I was on the fifth book of Harry Potter in 4th grade, and my teacher came over to me and said that I was reading something out of my level although it was the fifth book. I remember being on page like 400 something and she asked me what the book was about to see if I understood it, and I said “Well, the Order of the Phoenix is trying to protect Harry from Voldemort since he came back.” She said I was wrong and “corrected” me by saying the same thing, but with more information that partially spoiled the book. So since I was in 4th grade, I was forced to comply with my orders and just stopped reading it for the rest of the period. My parents had a meeting with my teacher, and apparently she also pulled the principal into it and somehow they actually came to an “agreement” that I couldn’t read Harry Potter in school, and I was a Harry Potter fanatic. I literally had like 20 wands at the time. Please back me up here 😢 👇
so you want pictures in every book? you guys shouldn't read. you can do one job and that's play games very well. video games. so reading is boring without Cartoon like pictures which is childish? so you want pictures and art works in great autobiography books?
@@mcocgokemon4327A lot of the things we’re forced to read suck ngl. I read every day for hours on my own but annotating & stuff for school reading is annoying. I feel like I retain what I read more by just reading lmao
@@ReneeLai In the Netherlands we would've been allowed to read Harry Potter in original English for English class too, but not the translation for Dutch class. They were just getting written when I had book assignments in school though. ;) Which was always a pain for me because I devoured books, including classics, but those were all translated. I really disliked Dutch literature. My parents still chuckle when they recall how long it took me to finish "De Aanslag". When I downed 500 page novels in a weekend.
Meanwhile, I've been dissecting the Harry Potter books for just over a year and now I'm at the last book. I simply thought of reading the series, but I also thought it would be great to mark just about every single detail. While it consumed a lot of time, it still is fun. I bought A Song of Ice and Fire a couple months ago and I can't wait to finish dissecting Harry Potter and unwrapping asoiaf (yes, they're still wrapped lol).
@@jrkasaurus UPDATE: I started the series in May and went through the first two books quick enough. I got to the third book in late August and I only got through 200 pages so far. Why can't summer breaks be any longer😂
I had the complete opposite experience. My 2nd grade teacher would read a chapter of Harry Potter at the end of the day. It’s what got me into the series. Mrs bajan was her name. She was an angel she played piano and had a great voice. She was 1 of a few excellent teachers I had
School can never kill my joy of reading. It did for arts though.. I loved arts a lot but back then school kept on making us do beautiful drawings I loved to make. But now our drawings make me feel bored and forced to do drawings. I do like some drawings we do but many more just made me feel bored in arts, I stopped drawing around the age of 7 at least. Since I always felt in arts class we should get to draw whatever we want, I also had to do arts class every Friday after classes in school, so those times my art skill, love and inspiration for arts fell away from me, I personally realised my art became worser and some art methods we did for practice looked bad. So of course I didn't want to make myself look like a starter even though I was never a starter and basically a pro in the first place. So at home I would read, play video games or go outside but nothing like RELATED to arts, but I'm slowly liking arts again with these school projects like crafts and coloring. But I'm trying to watch a few art tutorials a bit to get my love for arts back. Since my art skills are basically gone.
I still remember vividly in middle school when we got to learned about a short story called 'The break up of the dolls'. What I got from the story was two siblings had to split their toys and the older brother was very sad about it and I remember he was thinking to himself why everything around him was still normal but he was the only one who was hurt inside. That was what I remember. Until in highschool, one day I was bored and didn't have anything to do so I found my old textbook read the story again and I finally understand why the older brother was so sad when they split the toys. So their parents was getting a divorce, the mother told them to split their toys because the siblings won't live together anymore too. It's was their last time they were ever been together. The moment I understood the story I was crying my heart out. I don't know whether I was too stupid to understand the metaphor or too young to know about the problem. But for sure the teacher did not help me to really understand the story at all
I’m 9 years old and in 4th grade and yeah I loved reading for fun and now it is like a assignment and not fun so now in the summer or any school break I try to like reading again with out it feeling like a assignment
When you're assigned with doing something, you will always get criticized, either in a positive or negative way, for the result. A good result is a result that the creator likes, so it's important to not care about what anyone else thinks. Taking others' opinion into account is what kills all the fun. Remember, every point in life is a checkpoint.
In 3rd grade, Mrs. Hunter, the 'librarian' and PE teacher at my tiny school yelled at me because I had read and re-read all the Babysitters books 3 times and told me I couldn't check them out anymore. I had also read classics like Little House on the Prairie and The House of Dies Drear. Her cutting me off from reading my favorite books and making me cry from her yelling made me stop reading for fun for the rest of my school years. Children get on 'kicks' and you should let them move on when they are ready, especially when it includes a healthy habit like reading. Thanks a lot, Mrs. Hunter.
I found love of reading again too after school ♥️ so grateful for books and my babies to read to ❤ im also grateful that they love books and learning and stories ❤️ it's too bad school makes it into a burden.
I also love reading as a kid and I'm thankful that it's because of my grade 1 teacher that I enjoyed reading. She always brought books to class and read it to us. Then as I keep moving up a grade ofcourse we read stories to analyze it that it became boring for my classmates but I'm the type to not care about anything except myself as a kid and honestly didn't care about my grade so most of the time I'm not listening to the teacher just day dreaming or recalling movies I've watched and books that I've read in my head. I just mind my own business and that's also why my classmates always teases me that I have my own world😆. Those days are fun. I can do whatever weird things I want because I'm a kid and now I need to do so many things, needs to socialize even though I don't want to most of the time. It's hard being grown up and still kinda childish that my mom always tells me to act my age😢
Those books are literally gorgeous. I’m gonna get them after the clothbound classics I have. I don’t think a love of reading ever truly goes away. Thanks for sharing!
This is true for me. But I would also say that later on in high-school it was my literature teacher who brought back to life my interest for books. Once, he stated something like this: "Even though you have to or ought to read the books on which you will be tested, maybe these books aren't to your taste. However, with all the books out there, there must be a genre that will please you. Never stop looking."
I'm so glad that they made us read those kinds of books because now, as an adult, I read brilliant authors like Harper Lee, Capote, Hemingway, and more, simply for the joy of it. School introduced me to great works of literature that I might never have encountered. And, I still love to read Harry Potter, lol. I'm thankful every day that my brain isn't cooked so much that I only get excited about reading Coleen Hoover type stuff.
This is sooooo true, i remember during my school days we had strict librarian who used to force us to read books that she wanted us to read and not we wanted to read every week whenever we had library time, that just made me hate books but now i am rekindling my love for books and good piece of literature , this is sooo soo sooooo relatable.
In my school we had reading tests where we read a completely unrelated book to real life and had to evaluate it with questions such as “who was holding the pot plants in the story”. Like wt- 🤦♀️
This is so true. I used to love reading so much and school just zapped that enjoyment from me. My sister though is trying to get me back into reading so hopefully I can get back into it.
Yes, people dont even understand how it is because I have always been so good at english and loved it. I was always on a higher reading level than everyone else. Like in 2nt grade, I would read 4th grade level. In 4th grade, I would read 7th grade level. But when i got in 5th grade and we had to actually read things that were not in my interest, I felt myself not reading as much and hating doing it because it felt like a task. That was until the end of my 7th grade summer that I bought a book for school that seemed like it interested me. I thought it would take me forever to finish it or I would even finish it but not only did I finish it, I finished it in 2 weeks. Then i got another and another, and now im in love with reading and have read over 10 books this year. Also, i am currently reading Harry Potter and the sourcers stone! Just started it a couple of days ago! Sorry for the long response. I dont typically comment unless it's short or there are no comments! 😂❤
I’ve recently gotten back into reading too! Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, and more. It’s fantastic. Everything is better when you enjoy reading again.
That’s what I did after college! I was so annoyed that all that schooling took my love of books away. I started w the books I loved most as a kid and slowly got back into joyful reading again. It does work! Good luck! I hope you find your way back to enjoying being lost between pages 💖✨
For me I learned to love classics more because of school, I just wished we had more time because I am a canonically slow reader lol. I don’t like rushing and missing stuff
The exact same thing happened to me. As a kid, I was very fond of reading books so much that I could spend an entire day just sitting and reading if no one bothered me but when college forced me to read novels and dramas and find out all the hidden meanings, themes, ideas and what not in the stories I completely lost the journey of reading and as of now I'm still trying hard to find my lost joy and fun of reading.
Omg 💯 As a kid I was reading through the whole night, more than one book on one day...but school took all the joy😂 I did rediscover my love for reading also with books for young adults or children - it gave me back my fantasy
I ❤LOVE❤ reading it is absolutely one of the best pleaures in the world. If anyone at school besides a teacher took a book out of my hands they could basically consider themselves dead.😄
Is it just me or does school like spoil everything that used to be enjoyable to us? For example, you can’t enjoy reading a book without it seeming like a chore. We always need to do book projects in books and I can’t even enjoy my book because I’m in such a rush to get the project done! Or art is another example, you can’t just draw freely without being judged not only by students around you but also teachers, who are supposed to be supportive. My 3rd and 4th grade teachers didn’t like I drew anime or some stuff but that was one of the only styles I knew, and I didn’t want to make it look bad or effortless or anything. (I’ve branched out to realism, cartoon, and semi realistic drawings) but at school you can’t express creativity or your love for anything because it useless gets ruined by how they put pressure on you. And also how any wrong thing you do is an email home! Like I once just asked for a pencil from the person sitting next to me because all the pencils I had just were like so short from sharpening them so much, then the teacher yelled at me, moved my seat and told me she would send an email home if I did it again. Every single period I have to put up with stuff like that except for my science and maths teacher that I really like. You don’t have to read it all lol
These books by MinaLima are stunning. HP is the only set of books I have actually collected different versions of. They’ve released the first 3 books and they’re worth it!
Back in elementary I read a lot more than I do now. In the school library I always loved reading the magic treehouse, a series of unfortunate events, and owned a few monster high books myself. But the school was always trying to raise everyone’s levels of reading, so they started pulling kids aside who were deemed “slow readers” or didn’t meet the standards. Every week some of us would be pulled out of class so that they could individually help us advance our reading skills (which isn’t a bad thing of course). But it was clear that they weren’t satisfied enough with my progress. Eventually it started making me feel different or stupid, and from that moment on every book I picked up felt like a chore or reminder that my skills weren’t good enough. It saddens me that up until recently I’d completely forgotten my joy of reading from telling myself all these years that I hated it. I’m now 19 and am hoping I can try and get back into to it, but this time I’m gonna read whatever the hell I want. It’s gonna be hard having to rewire my brain again but I have confidence. So yeah you could say school ruined it for me for a long time. Thanks for reading.
I left school in 8th grade and homeschool has done amazing things for me, I am able to finally learn math, history and Science topics I couldn’t get before, I love reading I read so much and read whatever I want and it’s amazing
theres this series of classic books i found that comes with illustrations, so its like i get to read and every now and again i get rewarded with a picture xD
For someone has a language/speech disability like had struggles of reading which was very bad also school didn’t help at all when keep flucking. Now am done with school, went back to reading and now I am loving it again.
The one time i actually enjoyed reading at school was when i had a choice what to read. I think my 10th grade english teacher had heard about this theory that school makes kids hate reading. So she got permission from the school to change one of the books we were supposed to read in during the year. So instead of reading "Catcher in the Rye", like all the other classes. She compiled a list of like 10 - 15 books. All from different periods and different genres. She also gave us a sheet of paper with the synopsis of all the books and allowed us to choose what we want to read. I ended up picking up a relatively new book called "Bean Trees" (which is sad that a book from the 1980s was the newest book i had read in school up to this point (2020)). I loved the book, it was about the woman in her early 20s who decided to get in her car and move away from her home in texas randomly. While on the road she stops by a diner in oklaholma and when she gets out she finds that someone had left a baby in her car. I think the baby had a note with it. That said like the parents were both dead and it was the aunt who left the kid, because she felt she was unfit to raise her. Anyways, the woman decides to just keep the kid, eventually settles in Arizona, and raises the kid. The book goes through all their struggles being a single young mom and some racial struggles because it is the 80s and the kid is native american. All of that wouldn't have been possible without my awesome 10th grade english teacher.
I stopped reading actual books for a long time and just turned to fanfics. I hadn’t picked up a published book in years because of school and parent’s turning all my hobbies into work. I just recently started to read properly again. (I still love fanfics, always will. They are my comfort)
I have the first one and i absolutely LOVE it. I haven’t been able to get the second or third one but they’re so pretty. I adore the color scheme Minalima chose for PoA❤
I hated school books bc they felt like a chore too plus I’m a big fan of due dates but for me personally it never put me off reading in general, I still read books I actually enjoy and picked out myself.
OH THEY TRIED. They tried their hardest. In highschool we had a mandatory reading thing, we had to sit silently for half an hour and read. I remember once I brought Watership Down, and i remember a teacher trying to tell me the book was too advanced for me. They were a supply teacher i had never met. And i was 15. In the top set English class. She tried to tell me i needed to read something "more fitting for my reading age" I told her i understood every word in the book. So she said "If you can tell me what burrow means, id be surprised." .... Mother fucker thought I didn't know what BURROW MEANT. So i told her and she seemed quite annoyed at me. Another time i was reading a manga and a teacher got annoyed at me for reading a tolder book Thing is I was reading Junji Ito Maniac. So i just flipped a couple pages and showed him that it was, in fact, NOT a childrents picture book. He stayed away from me for the rest of my time there
Yep… school has given me bad memories when it comes to reading but I absolutely love reading graphic novels. College killed my passion for art, so I’ve spent many months healing and regaining my love for drawing and stuff😅
I'm also rereading HP for a similar reason!! I started suffering with depression and lost the joy of it, so I'm getting back into reading to capture the magic again 😊
I'm sorry, that book is absolutely gorgeous. where can I get this version of harry potter?
u can get this on amazon! it's the minalima edition of the HP books
@@ReneeLai I see! Thank you
@@ReneeLai omg i read that book before! Its so amazing :)))
But it is more expensive there.
I think it's an illustrated version. I'll now also try to hunt down this book and force my mom to buy it.
School didn't destroy it, but it made it seem like it was a bad thing. When I was in middle school, I was required to take an art class, I always finished my daily art project early and would pull out whatever book I was currently into and start reading. I was told I wasn't putting enough effort into my work, even though that's objective, cuz it was ART CLASS. How can you say MY ART wasn't good enough. I got called to the Principal's office several times and even had to have my parents come in for a conference with my teacher. Who admitted my artwork was fine, but I was more interested in reading, like that was a negative thing. My mom actually got mad at the teacher for giving me that much of a problem for FINISHING my work and then reading a book. That since I wasn't causing a problem in class, like talking or being disruptive, there was no reason for them to be harassing me. Love her for that, hate that teacher for calling me out for wanting to read in my spare time.
Sorry for the long response...
I got told off for reading in class too😭
I got in trouble too lol
I got school detention for it but that was bcuz I was reading during class. The teacher was giving an announcement to something, not really teaching anything, but they gave me detention cuz I wasn’t paying attention 😅
I think the problem is that you weren’t doing it in your spare time but during class. Did you ask if you could read? Did they not have any extra work you could do? Did they give you feedback on your work that you could improve on and just chose not to?
Teachers can be unreasonable but were you really in the right?
@sorntrash I wasn't, but my thought at the time was that, if I was finished with my work, and I wasn't disturbing anyone, what was the problem with me reading? Everyone else that has finished their work early was either being loud and messing around or just chatting with their friends, while I was reading.
I understand. They likely had a Tall Poppy syndrome and enforced it as the world commonly does: to read in class seems (to competing egoes-and they always are;) exclusive, standing-out&apart, nonparticipatory and sort of exempt; from the rules of-so to characterize them-muggles. Specially since reading fiction is a quietly transporting pastime and transcends the mundane-on top of that you had completed your other obligations, so that would put you in the enviable-and risky: so ¿unenviable?-position of "looking smart and irreproachable."
Bill Hicks had a memorable bit about it in Relentless: “What are you reading for?”; Brontë's Jane Eyre starts with the protagonist as a young child just reading by the window during rains and it being kinda all she ever wanted.-It’s not on you!
Listen to me, I tell people the exact same thing. I 100% feel you. College ruined reading for me. Before that, you could not pull me away from a book. Now, when I look at a book, I feel like it's work. Trying also. ❤
school once destroyed my passion for drawing and painting
No wonder we called school prison for kids!
Same but with me it was university
@@KevinBelmontLuna fr
i feel these words in my soul.
That I say ,yes!!!!
There’s a theory that bookish children who grew up and couldn’t get back into reading werent really fantasized by reading but the escapism because our childhoods sucked.
this got real deep 👆
Yes.. Those of us who needed doors into other worlds the most
Noooo don’t say that! 😪😭 I used to live to read.. went to university and haven’t read much since
This obviously doesn’t apply to everyone but it makes sense to many of us.
I vouch for that
School destroys everything that's fun
ikr 🙃
truth
Yeah like maths
Pls where did you get this book pls tell me pls pls pls
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I ADORE this series of harry potter books. I am so excited for the 3rd book from MinaLima
The 3rd one is so pretty. With blue. Looks nice next to the others.
I still love reading, but it's hard for me to sit down with a regular book and just read through it
I tend to read fanfiction and manga now, but I do still enjoy longer books like The Belgariad and The Journey to the West :)
they integrated silent reading when i was in high school and those were the best moments of peace i got at school. they suddenly took it away and it broke my heart.
Schools are literally Azkaban prison... sucks the joy out of things.
*My pov* we surs this isnt a prison in disguise? I want outtttt can i go home yet?
*My pov* we surs this isnt a prison in disguise? I want outtttt can i go home yet?
So true...
so basically a dementor
@@KittyGacha_10RUclips doubled ur comment 💀
I used to love reading so much my mom would take my book away as a punishment until I calmed down
But now thanks to middle school reading feels like a punishment
I thought I hated reading in school, but I actually just hate reading most of the fiction styles they have in school.
For me school actually kinda made my joy of reading
I absolutely *hate* reading in school. We’re reading and I’m really getting into the scene in my head, then we stop reading for like 10 minutes to analyze the obvious, then I have to try and get the scene back in my head. Then once I do, we have to stop again and the process repeats. It makes me so mad.
Imo it was actually less that the books were boring and more that I was so overwhelmed with homework that I didn’t have any TIME to read for fun anymore. And the assigned reading that I wanted to enjoy, I had to rush through in order to make deadlines.
It re-wired my brain into thinking of reading as something I associated with feeling stressed out, rather than enjoyable.
I say this as someone who would read books for fun under my desk well into high school.
I agree. When reading became a task, I lost interest. But now, I'm re-igniting my love for reading.
True Story:
I was on the fifth book of Harry Potter in 4th grade, and my teacher came over to me and said that I was reading something out of my level although it was the fifth book. I remember being on page like 400 something and she asked me what the book was about to see if I understood it, and I said “Well, the Order of the Phoenix is trying to protect Harry from Voldemort since he came back.” She said I was wrong and “corrected” me by saying the same thing, but with more information that partially spoiled the book. So since I was in 4th grade, I was forced to comply with my orders and just stopped reading it for the rest of the period. My parents had a meeting with my teacher, and apparently she also pulled the principal into it and somehow they actually came to an “agreement” that I couldn’t read Harry Potter in school, and I was a Harry Potter fanatic. I literally had like 20 wands at the time. Please back me up here 😢
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Totally unfair of that “Well ACK-tually” teacher
A blasphemy to Harry Potter lovers and book readers (not necessarily HP)😮💨
Omg same I was reading everyday, and I hate the book we are reading in school rn. You have to highlight everything😭😭😭
NOOO not the highlighting 😭😭
Yes the ✨annotations✨
I hate it
I used to live ELA
But 7th grade man
so you want pictures in every book? you guys shouldn't read. you can do one job and that's play games very well. video games. so reading is boring without Cartoon like pictures which is childish? so you want pictures and art works in great autobiography books?
@@mcocgokemon4327 bro stfu I love reading I’m just saying that school makes everything as bad as possible
Also, I love reading
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@@mcocgokemon4327A lot of the things we’re forced to read suck ngl. I read every day for hours on my own but annotating & stuff for school reading is annoying. I feel like I retain what I read more by just reading lmao
This is how I feel when it comes to my art 😭
Me literally having the EXACT same book that m reading at school😂😂😂
ya'll get to read this in school?? you're so lucky
@@ReneeLai In the Netherlands we would've been allowed to read Harry Potter in original English for English class too, but not the translation for Dutch class. They were just getting written when I had book assignments in school though. ;)
Which was always a pain for me because I devoured books, including classics, but those were all translated. I really disliked Dutch literature. My parents still chuckle when they recall how long it took me to finish "De Aanslag". When I downed 500 page novels in a weekend.
🎀No school didn’t kill my love of reading but along with other things. It helped me get through my bullying.🎀
Meanwhile, I've been dissecting the Harry Potter books for just over a year and now I'm at the last book.
I simply thought of reading the series, but I also thought it would be great to mark just about every single detail. While it consumed a lot of time, it still is fun.
I bought A Song of Ice and Fire a couple months ago and I can't wait to finish dissecting Harry Potter and unwrapping asoiaf (yes, they're still wrapped lol).
I finally started reading ASOIAF idk why I waited so long lol just finished the third book
@@jrkasaurus UPDATE: I started the series in May and went through the first two books quick enough. I got to the third book in late August and I only got through 200 pages so far. Why can't summer breaks be any longer😂
Books with pictures are the best things ever
ct so true i used to love reading and now school made me hate it
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I used to LOVE reading. If got grounded my mom didn't take my phone or toys, she'd take away my books. School ruined reading!
I had the complete opposite experience. My 2nd grade teacher would read a chapter of Harry Potter at the end of the day. It’s what got me into the series. Mrs bajan was her name. She was an angel she played piano and had a great voice. She was 1 of a few excellent teachers I had
I know the key is to try and keep reading books you like when you are young even though its hard but it really works
School can never kill my joy of reading. It did for arts though.. I loved arts a lot but back then school kept on making us do beautiful drawings I loved to make. But now our drawings make me feel bored and forced to do drawings. I do like some drawings we do but many more just made me feel bored in arts, I stopped drawing around the age of 7 at least. Since I always felt in arts class we should get to draw whatever we want, I also had to do arts class every Friday after classes in school, so those times my art skill, love and inspiration for arts fell away from me, I personally realised my art became worser and some art methods we did for practice looked bad. So of course I didn't want to make myself look like a starter even though I was never a starter and basically a pro in the first place. So at home I would read, play video games or go outside but nothing like RELATED to arts, but I'm slowly liking arts again with these school projects like crafts and coloring. But I'm trying to watch a few art tutorials a bit to get my love for arts back. Since my art skills are basically gone.
These books realy help with my dyslexia as you can see what going on in the book aswell as imagining what’s happening
I still remember vividly in middle school when we got to learned about a short story called 'The break up of the dolls'. What I got from the story was two siblings had to split their toys and the older brother was very sad about it and I remember he was thinking to himself why everything around him was still normal but he was the only one who was hurt inside. That was what I remember. Until in highschool, one day I was bored and didn't have anything to do so I found my old textbook read the story again and I finally understand why the older brother was so sad when they split the toys. So their parents was getting a divorce, the mother told them to split their toys because the siblings won't live together anymore too. It's was their last time they were ever been together. The moment I understood the story I was crying my heart out.
I don't know whether I was too stupid to understand the metaphor or too young to know about the problem. But for sure the teacher did not help me to really understand the story at all
I have the same book it has got such a nice illustration
I’m 9 years old and in 4th grade and yeah I loved reading for fun and now it is like a assignment and not fun so now in the summer or any school break I try to like reading again with out it feeling like a assignment
The room has such a cozy vibe to it
When you're assigned with doing something, you will always get criticized, either in a positive or negative way, for the result. A good result is a result that the creator likes, so it's important to not care about what anyone else thinks. Taking others' opinion into account is what kills all the fun. Remember, every point in life is a checkpoint.
In 3rd grade, Mrs. Hunter, the 'librarian' and PE teacher at my tiny school yelled at me because I had read and re-read all the Babysitters books 3 times and told me I couldn't check them out anymore. I had also read classics like Little House on the Prairie and The House of Dies Drear. Her cutting me off from reading my favorite books and making me cry from her yelling made me stop reading for fun for the rest of my school years.
Children get on 'kicks' and you should let them move on when they are ready, especially when it includes a healthy habit like reading. Thanks a lot, Mrs. Hunter.
True, I don’t remember the last time I read because I wanted to
I found love of reading again too after school ♥️ so grateful for books and my babies to read to ❤ im also grateful that they love books and learning and stories ❤️ it's too bad school makes it into a burden.
Love this!
Didn't like reading again till after college. Now it's my dissociation activity of choice
I’m reading this version right now too!
I also love reading as a kid and I'm thankful that it's because of my grade 1 teacher that I enjoyed reading. She always brought books to class and read it to us. Then as I keep moving up a grade ofcourse we read stories to analyze it that it became boring for my classmates but I'm the type to not care about anything except myself as a kid and honestly didn't care about my grade so most of the time I'm not listening to the teacher just day dreaming or recalling movies I've watched and books that I've read in my head. I just mind my own business and that's also why my classmates always teases me that I have my own world😆. Those days are fun. I can do whatever weird things I want because I'm a kid and now I need to do so many things, needs to socialize even though I don't want to most of the time. It's hard being grown up and still kinda childish that my mom always tells me to act my age😢
That version of the book looks really cool I love how interactive it is
I have both 2 books and I’m looking forward to getting the 3rd one. Minalima truly outdid themselves with this
Those books are literally gorgeous. I’m gonna get them after the clothbound classics I have. I don’t think a love of reading ever truly goes away. Thanks for sharing!
I ABSOLUTELY NEED THAT BOOK! I LOVE HP!
Yeah same and thats a gorgeous book it feels like i have to read the book and then make a darn project about it
This is true for me. But I would also say that later on in high-school it was my literature teacher who brought back to life my interest for books. Once, he stated something like this: "Even though you have to or ought to read the books on which you will be tested, maybe these books aren't to your taste. However, with all the books out there, there must be a genre that will please you. Never stop looking."
I'm so glad that they made us read those kinds of books because now, as an adult, I read brilliant authors like Harper Lee, Capote, Hemingway, and more, simply for the joy of it.
School introduced me to great works of literature that I might never have encountered. And, I still love to read Harry Potter, lol.
I'm thankful every day that my brain isn't cooked so much that I only get excited about reading Coleen Hoover type stuff.
Wow🎉🎉
As a potterhead i just love that book❤❤
I LOVE MINA LIMA SO MUCH
I carried my books to school and would read it during lectures😂I was even caught once😂
Harry Potter is my favourite book series so far and I think always will be ❤️
This is also a fantastic version of the books to hand down to your kids later in life
This is spectacular and gorgeous 😍
School didnt destroy reading for me im just dyslexic 😭
i literally get in trouble in ENGLISH CLASS for reading too much. i don’t think i will ever get tired of reading
Ugg seriously its like schools think that things can’t be deep unless they are depressing/existentially horrific.
This is sooooo true, i remember during my school days we had strict librarian who used to force us to read books that she wanted us to read and not we wanted to read every week whenever we had library time, that just made me hate books but now i am rekindling my love for books and good piece of literature , this is sooo soo sooooo relatable.
Nice Book 😊❤
In my school we had reading tests where we read a completely unrelated book to real life and had to evaluate it with questions such as “who was holding the pot plants in the story”. Like wt- 🤦♀️
This is so true. I used to love reading so much and school just zapped that enjoyment from me. My sister though is trying to get me back into reading so hopefully I can get back into it.
Yes, people dont even understand how it is because I have always been so good at english and loved it. I was always on a higher reading level than everyone else. Like in 2nt grade, I would read 4th grade level. In 4th grade, I would read 7th grade level. But when i got in 5th grade and we had to actually read things that were not in my interest, I felt myself not reading as much and hating doing it because it felt like a task. That was until the end of my 7th grade summer that I bought a book for school that seemed like it interested me. I thought it would take me forever to finish it or I would even finish it but not only did I finish it, I finished it in 2 weeks. Then i got another and another, and now im in love with reading and have read over 10 books this year. Also, i am currently reading Harry Potter and the sourcers stone! Just started it a couple of days ago! Sorry for the long response. I dont typically comment unless it's short or there are no comments! 😂❤
I’ve recently gotten back into reading too! Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, and more. It’s fantastic. Everything is better when you enjoy reading again.
Mina-Lima 😎Epic😎
that book's so pretty!
That’s what I did after college! I was so annoyed that all that schooling took my love of books away. I started w the books I loved most as a kid and slowly got back into joyful reading again. It does work! Good luck! I hope you find your way back to enjoying being lost between pages 💖✨
I love reading at school more because it’s the most entertaining thing to do besides talking to friends😢
I have that book too it’s so interesting
For me I learned to love classics more because of school, I just wished we had more time because I am a canonically slow reader lol. I don’t like rushing and missing stuff
For me, school kind of boosts my joy for reading.
The exact same thing happened to me. As a kid, I was very fond of reading books so much that I could spend an entire day just sitting and reading if no one bothered me but when college forced me to read novels and dramas and find out all the hidden meanings, themes, ideas and what not in the stories I completely lost the journey of reading and as of now I'm still trying hard to find my lost joy and fun of reading.
Omg 💯 As a kid I was reading through the whole night, more than one book on one day...but school took all the joy😂 I did rediscover my love for reading also with books for young adults or children - it gave me back my fantasy
School destroyed my Joy for learning , studying , reading and drawing
Red Rising saga is amazing!
I ❤LOVE❤ reading it is absolutely one of the best pleaures in the world. If anyone at school besides a teacher took a book out of my hands they could basically consider themselves dead.😄
yesss!! just being able to imagine worlds beyond the pages is amazing
Is it just me or does school like spoil everything that used to be enjoyable to us? For example, you can’t enjoy reading a book without it seeming like a chore. We always need to do book projects in books and I can’t even enjoy my book because I’m in such a rush to get the project done! Or art is another example, you can’t just draw freely without being judged not only by students around you but also teachers, who are supposed to be supportive. My 3rd and 4th grade teachers didn’t like I drew anime or some stuff but that was one of the only styles I knew, and I didn’t want to make it look bad or effortless or anything. (I’ve branched out to realism, cartoon, and semi realistic drawings) but at school you can’t express creativity or your love for anything because it useless gets ruined by how they put pressure on you. And also how any wrong thing you do is an email home! Like I once just asked for a pencil from the person sitting next to me because all the pencils I had just were like so short from sharpening them so much, then the teacher yelled at me, moved my seat and told me she would send an email home if I did it again. Every single period I have to put up with stuff like that except for my science and maths teacher that I really like.
You don’t have to read it all lol
others: *listening to the story*
me: I have this book!
😂😂😂
These books by MinaLima are stunning. HP is the only set of books I have actually collected different versions of. They’ve released the first 3 books and they’re worth it!
Everything you said is soo relatable. I recently started reading again by reading the books that made me fall in love with reading when I was little.
love that !!
Highly recommend Twin Flame Chronicles on royal road if you love fantasy, history, and romance, it made me get into reading again
Back in elementary I read a lot more than I do now. In the school library I always loved reading the magic treehouse, a series of unfortunate events, and owned a few monster high books myself.
But the school was always trying to raise everyone’s levels of reading, so they started pulling kids aside who were deemed “slow readers” or didn’t meet the standards. Every week some of us would be pulled out of class so that they could individually help us advance our reading skills (which isn’t a bad thing of course). But it was clear that they weren’t satisfied enough with my progress. Eventually it started making me feel different or stupid, and from that moment on every book I picked up felt like a chore or reminder that my skills weren’t good enough.
It saddens me that up until recently I’d completely forgotten my joy of reading from telling myself all these years that I hated it. I’m now 19 and am hoping I can try and get back into to it, but this time I’m gonna read whatever the hell I want. It’s gonna be hard having to rewire my brain again but I have confidence. So yeah you could say school ruined it for me for a long time. Thanks for reading.
I left school in 8th grade and homeschool has done amazing things for me, I am able to finally learn math, history and Science topics I couldn’t get before, I love reading I read so much and read whatever I want and it’s amazing
I saw these in k-mart last week and was like "I NEED THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the art in the philosipher's stone is the best though
theres this series of classic books i found that comes with illustrations, so its like i get to read and every now and again i get rewarded with a picture xD
Love it I'm getting the third one for Christmas I can't wait 😊
How lucky you are... I'm lost my childhood without these beauty hp books.
I wish we would have these books when we read harry potter these books look freaking amazing 😭
For someone has a language/speech disability like had struggles of reading which was very bad also school didn’t help at all when keep flucking.
Now am done with school, went back to reading and now I am loving it again.
As a SUPER Harry Potter fan, can I kindly ask…. WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE BOOKS CZ THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT!
I got mine on amazon!! it’s the minalima editions of the Harry Potter books (they’re releasing the 3rd one soon!)
Love this❤
The one time i actually enjoyed reading at school was when i had a choice what to read.
I think my 10th grade english teacher had heard about this theory that school makes kids hate reading. So she got permission from the school to change one of the books we were supposed to read in during the year. So instead of reading "Catcher in the Rye", like all the other classes. She compiled a list of like 10 - 15 books. All from different periods and different genres. She also gave us a sheet of paper with the synopsis of all the books and allowed us to choose what we want to read.
I ended up picking up a relatively new book called "Bean Trees" (which is sad that a book from the 1980s was the newest book i had read in school up to this point (2020)).
I loved the book, it was about the woman in her early 20s who decided to get in her car and move away from her home in texas randomly. While on the road she stops by a diner in oklaholma and when she gets out she finds that someone had left a baby in her car. I think the baby had a note with it. That said like the parents were both dead and it was the aunt who left the kid, because she felt she was unfit to raise her. Anyways, the woman decides to just keep the kid, eventually settles in Arizona, and raises the kid. The book goes through all their struggles being a single young mom and some racial struggles because it is the 80s and the kid is native american.
All of that wouldn't have been possible without my awesome 10th grade english teacher.
I stopped reading actual books for a long time and just turned to fanfics. I hadn’t picked up a published book in years because of school and parent’s turning all my hobbies into work. I just recently started to read properly again. (I still love fanfics, always will. They are my comfort)
Me too. Im trying to get back into it.
rooting for you !!
I have the first one and i absolutely LOVE it. I haven’t been able to get the second or third one but they’re so pretty. I adore the color scheme Minalima chose for PoA❤
OMG 💖
I am a HUGE Potterhead 👦⚡📙🧙♂️
Love this and totally get it!!
It is killing it
I hated school books bc they felt like a chore too plus I’m a big fan of due dates but for me personally it never put me off reading in general, I still read books I actually enjoy and picked out myself.
OH THEY TRIED.
They tried their hardest.
In highschool we had a mandatory reading thing, we had to sit silently for half an hour and read.
I remember once I brought Watership Down, and i remember a teacher trying to tell me the book was too advanced for me.
They were a supply teacher i had never met.
And i was 15.
In the top set English class.
She tried to tell me i needed to read something "more fitting for my reading age"
I told her i understood every word in the book.
So she said "If you can tell me what burrow means, id be surprised."
....
Mother fucker thought I didn't know what BURROW MEANT.
So i told her and she seemed quite annoyed at me.
Another time i was reading a manga and a teacher got annoyed at me for reading a tolder book
Thing is
I was reading Junji Ito Maniac.
So i just flipped a couple pages and showed him that it was, in fact, NOT a childrents picture book.
He stayed away from me for the rest of my time there
Omg yes it did, I love reading Harry Potter and I want to but it feels like I’m doing work. Even listening to it feels like an assignment.
Yep… school has given me bad memories when it comes to reading but I absolutely love reading graphic novels.
College killed my passion for art, so I’ve spent many months healing and regaining my love for drawing and stuff😅
I'm also rereading HP for a similar reason!! I started suffering with depression and lost the joy of it, so I'm getting back into reading to capture the magic again 😊