So let me tell you about my sisters
With who? My sister. Why? Because she’s the complete opposite of me when it comes to reading. I love to read and she doesn’t.
Gasp.
Yeah, I know. But since she’s in high school she has book requirements she has to read for a grade. Like really? The way they act it’s like a punishment. My last years of high school that was a freaking award. She doesn’t like to read and I suppose it’s because she can’t find a book she likes. She’s picky when it comes to them and the fact that she has an attention span of an ant. She zones out easily so reading is hard for her. Plus, she’s in like five different sports, goes to school full time, so she doesn’t exactly have time to read. Now, I was in the same boat as her. I played sports in high school, made good grades, and yet when I was given the requirements to read four books in nine weeks, I finished them in the first week.
Reading was an award for me. I loved it. it was a passion.
So tonight she came to me – this is an occurring thing – asking me what book she can read to get points. After inwardly complaining that I’ve already tried this dozens of times and yet she wouldn’t take my advice, I pull out a couple books and tell her about them to which she doesn’t show much interest. I tell her a few things, she reads the back of them to see what they are about, and then when she’s done I go back to the one series that I’ve been trying since LAST YEAR to get her to read. What series you ask? The Lux Series. The idea of aliens turns her off I suppose. And after telling her repeatedly over and over again, reassuring her that she’ll like the book, she keeps shooting me down.
Long story short, I tell her that possibly the only book she’s ever liked (Slammed by Colleen Hoover) that Will is like the complete opposite of Daemon, we make a bet. We bet that after she finishes the book she’s currently reading, she will read the first few chapters of Obsidian and she can’t lie about what she thinks about it. I told her she would hate herself for pushing me off for MONTHS about not reading this series and if she truly LOVES it, she owes me $10. Ten dollars… not much to me if you ask me if i lose the bet. And her bet is if she loses interest within the first few paragraphs (I just stared at her, just knowing what happens within those first few pages) and I make the bet with her.
I’m confident she’ll like it. Why you ask? Because I’ve got a younger sister who I tried for months to read the book. She first read V is for Virgin and she loved it. She was wanting another book to read so I was like “just please read Obsidian. Read the first chapter and tell me what you think”
Want to know what happened?
She finished the entire series within two weeks. Which, honestly is FAST for her. She loved it. Loved it so much she’s both angry and happy at me for telling her about it because she knows she can’t find another book to compete with it.
Same for me. She’s angry at herself for putting it off for so long. The same thing I know my other sister will react with.
This makes me laugh honestly because like Kat said, “people who don’t heart books just didn’t understand.”