Assigned reading

When I was younger, I loved to read. I would read almost any book put in front of me no matter what. I  read the entire Hardy Boys series, all the Harry Potter books, the Percy Jackson series, I would read all the time. However, when I hit ninth grade and learned of a little site known to many as Sparknotes, my reading career basically came to screeching halt. I now won't read a book that is assigned by a teacher. At this exact moment, I am actually putting off reading both my independent book and the Telling Writing book to write this blog. It isn't that I don't like reading anymore or that I find the reading challenging, I just don't like being told to read something. If I see a book that looks interesting, I will pick it up and read, I enjoy doing that. But if you give me any school related book there is less than a ten percent chance I read that book. A lot of the time I can look it up on Sparknotes and I will be fine, sometimes that isn't the case, unfortunately both my independent book and Telling Writing aren't on Sparknotes so I will read them. Will I enjoy it, most likely not, but it has to be done so I will power through.