My daughter was the one really into doing the summer reading challenge this year, and convinced me to sign up. I wasn’t sure if I was going to quite have the energy for it, honestly. But I’ve already crossed off (with squiggles) the items I decided to skip and just count thirty minutes’ reading time for, and completed two books that fit the actual criteria. So well on my way. Looking back at last year and the year before, some of the items are exactly the same, and this year the list is a bit shorter. I don’t mind at all! Summer seems to get shorter every year too, anyway. As far as being bracketed by school attendance, that is. The heat doesn’t leave us here until well into fall!
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I agree with most of the ones you squiggle line crossed out! I’ve been wanting to reread Watership Down though, and I think the movie was good as well, so I might have used that to fill that one.
#2 will be lots of fun!
I’m trying to figure out what to do the for the childhood re-read right now. Preferably one that I haven’t already mentioned here on the blog . . . Last year I did do the book-to-movie option, and surprised myself by watching the wrong movie- it was a mismatch because based on a fictional account written by the brother, not based on the actual author’s memoir I’d read. I now have the brother’s novel too, so must make that right someday soon!