I absolutely hate reading. where should I begin?

Try reading a different kind of thing. If you’ve been reading serious fiction for lit classes, maybe try mysteries, or romance, or science fiction. That also works if you’re burnt out on textbooks and other non-fiction. You might enjoy a biography of someone you admire, or a how-to book about a topic you’re interested in, or a cookbook, or an almanac, or a fairy tale, or some poetry, or a play. If you’re visually-oriented you might try an art book, or a photo book, or something from our graphic novel collection. Maybe listening to an audiobook would work better for you (listening to a book totally counts as reading). If you’ve been reading print books, try ebooks or vice-versa. I’m being general because I don’t know what you’re interested in, but if any of this sounds good, turn around to your left and ask my helpers at the desk for recommendations. Let us help you find something you’ll like.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.