reading

Why is it that school books are never as interesting, enrapturing, captivating, compelling, exciting, etc., as books I read on my own? And why must they go past so sllooooowly? I'm currently reading My Antonia by Willa Cather, but I've read...three? four? other books in between the 56 pages of My Antonia. Bad BAD English major!!! It makes me feel so guilty! And yet, I persist....