Literally any book that you now dislike due to school. This also applies to other literature styles as well.

Mine is The Hunger Games. I had to read it las year in school and it drove me insane. We started doing the novel study in early February and didn’t finish until May. I finished the book in less than two weeks, so I was pretty much just reading personal books all through English class for close to two months.

It’s not even like we had to analyze it super intensely. It was projects like ‘Make a playlist for a character of your choice’ and we had vocabulary tests every week, that were a joke. It was multiple choice for words like quest and forage. I know that English wasn’t everyone’s first language but come on.

I didn’t even like the book that much in the first place, so all of this was just adding to the misery.

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    10 months ago

    The Awakening by Kate Chopin. I don’t know why they had high schoolers read this - we did not have any of the life experience necessary to process the nuance in this book. I feel like if I read it now as a forty something woman without reading it before it would be fine. But as a high schooler with a deadbeat dad the ending of the book triggered me and I felt the main character was a selfish abominable being and any attempts of the teacher at “bug feminism” made me even angrier.