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Ok so I am really struggling with "a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't" because I was pretty good and I loved reading. Everything I was supposed to read I did with 2 exceptions... And they are awful! There's a really good reason I didn't finish them, they were long (one just over 500 pgs and the other over 800) and boooooring! Is it cheating to read a book that I personally wasn't assigned but that a lot of people are, like 1984 or The Old Man and the Sea? Or do you think I "have" to slog through one of the couple I can remember not reading?

I don't think using a book that other people read in school but you didn't is considered cheating. Everyone's school was different so in my opinion its perfectly okay.

I took the approach of re-reading a book that I absolutely HATED in school. I hated it so much that my mom had to sit me down and read it to me (I may or may not have cried during this process lol). Anyways, I wanted to re-read it to see if I had the same feelings on it. While it was a terrible book still, at least for me, it gave my mom and I a good laugh remembering all that we went through when reading it the first time!

That's the nice thing about this challenge. Its structured, in yet there's still plenty of wiggle room to fit your own styles and preferences.

Have fun!

I'll be reading a book that's assigned in schools but wasn't assigned for me. The lord of the flies

I loved lord of the flies!! I think I will do 1984, I've always wanted to read it and it was definitely on our reading list. My 12th grade teacher gave us a list of about 200 books and we were to read x number from each category with different requirements for different marks (ie if you wanted a 90-95 you had to read 3 classics, 3 "difficult" and, say 6 others. I don't know the actual numbers) so I guess I wasn't technically "supposed" to read it but I also wasn't not supposed to lol

I'd read one of the others but with that much I think it would take me a long time to get through them and right now I'm on a very good path to finishing this challenge if I can stay on track.

I think most people are defining this one as a "school book" in general; for me one of the great things about this challenge is that it gets me to pick up books I wouldn't otherwise (like books off a school reading list).

I've generally been pretty strict with myself about them, being pretty literal. Like I wouldn't check off "book that made you cry" until I had read one and actually teared up. But I was a bit more lenient about a couple. Like the one that scared me was more of the idea/topic being scary to me rather than the book making me leave my lights on, and using my maiden name for an author with my initials.

There was only one book I was assigned that I did not finish: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Now that I am an adult and required reading is behind me, there is no way I'm going to pick it up again, certainly not without some serious financial incentive.

So I'm reading Rebecca. I was in one class with one teacher and my best friend was in another class with a different teacher. Rebecca was required reading for her but not me.

Lynn that's exactly how I feel about those two books lol

When I was in school, I lived in this small town, and I mean small town, in order for our school to be classified as a school, they had five other small towns that didn't have schools to come to our school and my senior class was the largest class that ever graduated from that school with almost 40. We had to read a lot of the books like Catcher in the Rye, A Day No Pigs Would Die, etc. etc. I read all the books that were on the list to read.

When my kids were in school and of course I had moved from that small town, I noticed on their list they had books on there that we didn't read when I was in school. So, for that category, I choose to read a book that was on the list that my kids had to read in school. I don't think that is cheating, because if you were to check in other locations, they may have a different list then another town or another state.