My daughter recently confessed that she only read one book in four years of AP English in high school because it was more fun to see how much she could synthesize through classroom discussions.
I love this!! As I read it I thought "yesssss!!!" I can relate

OH my. I think that my DD makes up for yours-- she's easily read 3K pages for her two AP English courses... just so that she can pick "the most interesting of the selections, Mom" (because she might accidentally pick the least superior if she hadn't read ALL of the options, see...
yeah, I'm not buying that one, either. Right now she's reading
Lolita "so that I can properly place
Reading 'Lolita' In Tehran into context, Mom."
Procrastination techniques are infinitely varied, strange, and wonderful among HG+ kiddos, aren't they??
