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But, but Proust's In Search For Lost Time is Seven volumes ! Charlotte skipped one ! seems like she didn't deserve that award after all !

@tomgauld.bsky.social I, for one, hope you might give some thought at some point to having an actual account on Mastodon, rather than one bridged from another entity, as is currently the case. I'm fairly certain that the style of humor expressed in your well-crafted and clever cartoons will be […]

Charlotte's wept...

Although older age group, one of my 2nd year or 3rd year classmates did similar. While pupils like me read and wrote a report on “Shane”, he did a Commando Comic. He got away w it for however many reading reports we did.

Prost!

Justice for Charlotte! (Apologies for being serious about your joke but: This is exactly why I decided to track days instead of books or time. And why I don't care if all you read was a cereal box. Summer Reading should be fun!)

That was a legit way to cheese the points system. They counted volumes separately but the longer books were SO not worth the effort for getting 40 points vs 10

When I had to deliver my reading list of English books for my secondary school's examinations, I asked if it were OK to combine Asimov's The Foundation's first 5 books into 1 item. My English teacher reacted 'OK! But 5? I thought there were only 3!". This was the end of 1982, and #6 was on its way.

Goddam, that's hilarious. Let me give to you a favorite New Yorker cartoon about books....

And what about the seventh volume? Does it qualify as a separate work?

There's only one way to go now, Charlotte. Kill them. Kill them all.

Killing the joke by saying that many library services count long/complex books as multiple books for the purposes of these things (at the discretion of staff).

Little Miss Cheated.

@tomgauld.bsky.social totally unfair

But can she summarize Proust in under 15 seconds?

@tomgauld.bsky.social I remember having to get Special Dispensation for the kids to do their book reports on whatever 600 page book they were actually reading instead of the 100 page books they were assigned….

The adjudication committee is quite right.

That's how you get a supervillain.

But did she just read the translation?

😂

Brilliant!

@tomgauld.bsky.social but Proust's 'Search' is seven volumes, no?

Dim teachers declared such a competition in a form class period in the library my comprehensive in the 80s. Predictable results. Perhaps they were trolling the clever kids? Decided I'd stick with the book I started but was eventually nagged into pretending to finish. Wish I'd stuck to my position.

@tomgauld.bsky.social I literally had a conversation about this last week. We drove past a library where someone called Theo (if I remember correctly) was being congratulated for reading his 1000th book. I was impressed, but my driver pointed out that he might be reading kids picture books.

Plus, I think it's fair to say, Proust can neither match Hargreaves' nuanced moral complexity, nor his joke count. bsky.app/profile/tomg...

Me: 'so that's 1001 nights (unexpurgated), 2 hardy boys, some fantasy novels, the encyclopedia of british sealife...' *Pause* 'oh you want more than just this week?'

Wonderful. A helpful life lesson for her!

U9s reading challenge - Proust v Mister Men 🤣👏 Nearly choked on my coffee but love it 🥰

Did Mr Tickle and Swann ever meet?

Roger Hargreaves books are the Madleine memory triggers for many people.

Oh, Charlotte. You still get your personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut!

Justice For Charlotte.

Brilliant! So she's made up for lost time... She knows!

"Mistakenly thought Lisa Simpson was meant to me likeable" cartoon

The committee is correct.

Quality vs quantity. (as personally decided) The whole how many books you have read, which so many relish, even as adults, is the downside of these kinds of reading programs. No one cares how many books you have read. (image Astrid Schekels)

It's like Paul Simon said: Proust is an island in the setting sun