Summer Reading

[CheeseChaser]

I need to read the book "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah over the summer for school. I started to read it but I couldn't focus on it because it is just plain boring. Does anyone have any tips? Thanks in advance.

[December]

Try and set a certain number of pages to read every day so that you can get through it in time. Take breaks if you have too, and read it a little at a time to minimize the chance that you will get bored. Also, if you are really having trouble getting through it, it is probably on Spark Notes (just google spark notes "a long way gone"), which, if you have never used provides a chapter by chapter summary, analysis, discussion of major themes and symbols, important quotes, and an end of book quiz to help you out. While it is best to read the book if you can, Spark Notes is still a great study tool that you should check out regardless of if you read the book or not. It definitely helped me get through and understand "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck my junior year, which is also hard to get into. Good luck! :)

[West Coast Sheriff]

Sperknotes
It summarizes the book but u don't have 2 ac2allly read ir

[Sudds3]

I'd say just punch through... You will probably be tested over it and sparknotes don't give you everything you need to know. I have to read "The Alchemist" and "People of Darkness" I finished the first and I'm moving onto the second. The alchemist was short...like 200 pages and I finished it in 2 nights, so just ouch through.....hopefully

[Guillermo]

Eh this wasn't a hard read. I had to read it before freshman year. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't one of my favorites and it did take me a while to get in to it. What I do is I set a certain amount of chapters (I think chapters are a better stopping place rather than a on a random page) that I'm going to read in one sitting. I don't do anything else until I've finished reading all the chapters that I told myself I would finish. Then I take breaks. But you just have to power through it.

[Cam_master]

Use spark notes to help you but you have to read the book

[Mortal Coil]

You do have to read the book. Just get through it, page by page. Never read it when you're tired, because then you'll get frustrated with it easily. Sparknotes is useful as a supplement, but generally just plow through it. Good luck.

[FullyAlive]

Get up an hour earlier than you need too and read for an hour before going out. Or when you come home read for an hour before you get to eat dinner or something like that as motivation.

Its something you have to get done, there's no way around it so you may as well just get on with it. We all have to do things we don't like at some point.

Set yourself a reward for when you reach the end and keep going with it!

[jalenobk1]

i read that book, i hated it lol

[Sudds3]

This is late, but on vacations or long trips you should read...I read over 220 pages of a book that was only 287 pages.....so ya, I read an entire boom in a 6 hour car ride......and it was gooooood! It's called People of Darkness. It was a very good murder mystery! I would highly recommend it. But ya, you need to read the book or else you are so screwed for the test or discussion that comes in the school year. Sparknotes are only to help you refresh your mind or help you clarify on a part that was confusing.