SLMS's Read-On Challenge

I love this challenge. I am soooo glad that they're splitting up the middle school after my sister gets to high school. That way I've got three glorious years to try and read as much as I can. Well, two more, including this one.

Basically, the premise is that the middle-schoolers have to read as many books (on-level or above level for them, but I'll share my views on that later) from January 1st to March 31st. The grade (6th-8th) with the most books read gets some prize or something. In turn, there're four sponsors (I forget who they got this year) that donate money to the Child Advocacy Program (or something like that) for each book read. The family of the middle schooler also gets to count the books they read (during the three months) toward the grade, and I think also the student. I'm pretty sure the student in each class with the most books wins something, too.

Last year the sixth grade (nor my sister) did not win, but I got 45 books read. Which, apart from spending the summer listening to audio books, comprised the bulk of my actual reading. I think I only read... less than 15 books last semester.

So far, I'm up to 15 this month, and I'm aiming for 75. Of course, I am counting audio books and books read for class (this semester I'm taking German Lit, so that's 10 books right there) towards my final. I don't know how many books the audio books are actually going to contribute: I've been stuck on the eighth disc of Twilight for the past week. Which is much better than being stuck on page 50 for the entire summer (and then having to return it to my friend and starting the book over when I got it on audio in December).

Anyway, I really have to go, as I still have to finish doing a piece for Moving Images and Sound. Though I'm really tempted to put that off until this evening, when everyone else is going to be using the 3-computer lab. Hmm....