Reading takes work—people learn from a very young age to love stories, books, reading. If you have been cheated out of this experience somehow, you can get back on track. But you will have to teach yourself to love reading—-it is too important to your life to be a miserable experience for you—missing out on books and the love of books will limit you in many ways. Books are there to be loved, worshipped, remembered, and they are literally eternal, making their authors immortal through time. If you miss out on enjoying books, it’s like being blind.

Also, if you are just forcing yourself through the minimum of assigned books, it’s like dragging yourself over glass, when the rest of the readers are walking on soft carpet.

There is no such thing as too many books to read—but most of all, it’s a personal, important experience you are missing if you avoid books, especially if you are still in school.

Most important, if you read, you are treasuring, valuing, yourself and your mind. If you don’t value your own mind, what’s the point of working hard in school? None at all.

One book I would suggest that is FOOL-PROOF, and impossible to put down, and the most fun book to read ever, is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet.”

If you read nothing else this year, sit down and start reading it–it’s a masterpiece.

My best advice would be to set realistic goals for yourself. Decide you are going to read 30 pages before you take a break and that break will be for an hour or say I am going to read 50 pages and then break for 45 minutes. Obviously the lengths of the time spent reading and the breaks should be guided by your own knowledge of how much you have left to read, how much time you have and how fast you are reading the book.

Above all else though remember to make sure you are comprehending what you are reading. No matter how much or how fast you read it is pointless if you do not understand what you are reading.

Good luck.

You also write essays, interpretations, and have discussions.

It is a difficult course.

As for your book, 200 pages should go over smoothly in about 2.5 hours.