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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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I can't believe I'm re-reading this. A Tale of Two Cities stands out as the ONLY book assigned to me in school (in all my years of school) that I did not read. I tried, I did, but I just couldn't wade through it. (Didn't help that it was assigned immediately after Great Expectations. I'd HAD it with Dickens by then. What was my high school freshman English teacher thinking?) To fulfill the Ultimately Reading Challenge category, "book you were supposed to read in school," this was my only option.
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I read it! I have no idea what I just read, but I read it!
Honestly, I'm telling the truth. The words made sense and I could follow some of the scenes, but I do not know how all this connects together at all. I am now gonna go to Wikipedia to figure out what I just read.
And, about the only reasons why I read this book were, one, it was staring me in the face on my bookshelf and, two, I want to read A Tale of Two Biddies by Kylie Logan when it comes out in February and have a basic knowledge of wh ...more
Honestly, I'm telling the truth. The words made sense and I could follow some of the scenes, but I do not know how all this connects together at all. I am now gonna go to Wikipedia to figure out what I just read.
And, about the only reasons why I read this book were, one, it was staring me in the face on my bookshelf and, two, I want to read A Tale of Two Biddies by Kylie Logan when it comes out in February and have a basic knowledge of wh ...more
No one ever wants to admit that they don't like a classic, but I'll admit it. I couldn't stand this book. I wanted to like it, but I just never got into it.
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I've been reading this bk since my dad bought it for me when I was in 3rd grade...every couple of yrs I read a paragraph....I don't know why I can't finish reading it!
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