I have a weird problem with my schedule this year

[tundra_wolf]

In my English class, my teacher is giving us 20 minutes at the end of the block for silent reading. We pick a book, any book we want, from the library and read to our heart's content. I picked Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman

Comments

[origamist]

You could try anthologies of short stories, ones short enough that you can read them in 20 minutes+lunch.

The other thing I might try is some good nonfiction. I like reading popular science books, but they tend to be reasonably easy to put down. I would go for:

• "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker if you like linguistics;
  
• "QED" by Richard Feynman if you like physics;
  
• "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins or any of the Stephen Jay Gould collections, if you like biology;
  
• "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond, if you like history (actually all of his books are good);
  
• "Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation" by Olivia Judson, if you like biology and feel like shocking your classmates (this one is worth reading for other reasons, too);
  
• anything by Martin Gardner, if you like math. (He writes on recreational mathematics; his books are a lot more fun than your precalc textbook probably is.)
  

The convenient part about these is that you can probably find most of them in the public library.