40 Book Challenge Progress - May 13, 2014

Looking at all of the books that I have read I think that i haven't reached and I'm not even close to completing the 40 book challenge. So far, I have read only 13 books, not counting the ones with more than 350 pages. I honestly thought I had read more. Even though I really didn't get close to finishing the challenge I feel like I now have experienced reading different genres and now, I even like different genres that I hadn't liked before. For example, fantasy, I never really liked fantasy since I had only read one book that was fantasy and now I was forced to read more, I feel like I would consider reading more fantasy books.  Based on my 6th grade year, I would say that I read more than twice as many books this year than last. Looking back, even though I haven' completed the challenge I feel like I have read a lot more this year than last. For example, last year, I would only read books that were assigned. I never really read any other books outside of school. I feel like by doing the 40 book challenge, it really made me read, whether to enjoy it or not. To me, I didn't really view the 40 book challenge as a challenge, to me I think that reading shouldn't be rushed. Like whenever we do a reading project in school and a teacher assigns certain amount of pages to read, I don't like it because I'm more of; if I like a book I will read a lot of chapters in a day, but if I don't i will only read a few pages, so when a teacher assigns certain pages or in this case how may books, I feel this need to rebel to either read more books or a lot less.   I feel like my experience with the 40 book challenge was a bit different because Mrs.Larson allowed me to count fanfictions as books. Fanfictions are basically a made up story of someone with a celebrity. So it is a fictional story, and sometime the authors put in "Y/N" which means Your Name, and so when you read the story and you see that "Y/N" come up you say your name. I read a lot of those, and i think that these fanfictions were mainly the "books" that helped me read a little bit more.