8/60 Love, Faith, and Growing Up: Finding an Angle of Repose (and I finished Educated . . . so . . .this is basically a novel . . .reading glasses might be required)
I know things come easily to people. I've seen it in my own children. Reading for example: Some children you point to letters, say their sounds, and they almost immediately know how to read. Others, it's honestly like banging your head against the wall. They simply don't get it. Reading makes zero sense to them and no matter which way you teach it, they can't figure out how to make all the sounds turn into words. It just doesn't click. And then, one day, one year, everything falls into place and clicks and they literally know how to read overnight. More often than not, they start devouring books and you wish a little that they never learned because that's all they are doing (but not really, because . . . oh the stress of having a non reader . . . blah). Everyone has their own time table for waking up and learning things. Reading did not come naturally to me. I knew what the sounds made but putting them together seemed so wrong. T...