Summer reading challenge has ended. Kiddos beat the adults 34-32 and get a shopping spree at their favorite store. Due to a miscommunication, that shopping spree will run 50% than expected, but if it gets 'em reading I'll gladly pay the difference.
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One of our kids has no problem but struggles with summarizing the important bits. Another will do anything BUT pick up a book. So we gave stickers for both finishing books and writing reviews, and counted both stickers against my wife and my finish a book stickers. So we stacked the deck a little.
aug 26, 2025, 5:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Lot of books! Did the adults read novels? Because that’s a ton of reading…
aug 27, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
My final count was 14, which was probably 7 comics (two of them large absolutes, the rest trades) , an audibook, and 6 novels. My wife was I think all novels except one novella. She's a machine!
aug 27, 2025, 3:50 am • 0 0 • view
That’s great. On two different occasions I’ve tried to read a hundred books in a year but haven’t made it. Got 90+ both times but was so sick of reading
aug 27, 2025, 3:52 am • 1 0 • view
My wife's done it a few times. I think my all time high as an adult is around 85, and probably 20 of those were comics.
aug 27, 2025, 5:02 am • 1 0 • view
I love this! When my kids are a little older I am sooo using it. Thank you for sharing!
aug 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
If we do it again, I'll add a rule that every 250 pages in a single book is a sticker too. A couple times someone said "Woah, that's a long book, it should count extra!" but we didn't formalize it, which incentivized reading short books (still a win!)
aug 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view