I have always been a bit of a bookworm.
I get through 2-6 books a week, depending on what I've got going on. I read approximately 100 pages an hour.
In my 2nd year of senior school age 14 (Newland School For Sluts Girls shoutout!), I read the entire years English Lit reading within 2 months and wrote an essay that got me an A on Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World".
My English teacher put me to a challenge - read War and Peace and write an essay on it. You've got 3 months.
Pffffft, said I, I can read a book in a day!

3 months later, I churned out the essay after slaving away at the fucking book for 2 months and taking a month to go back and re-read what I needed to write. I got a C+ for it.
I got a commendation from the Head of school at the end of the year assembly, and a book token for 25 quid.

To this day, I cannot remember a damn fucking thing about the book, and for my overall English Lit GCSE I got a C.
Although I am proud I did it, and my teacher was even prouder :)
Cocksocks.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 14 Aug 2009, 6:18, Reply)