Is there an ideal number of pages that should be read in a year? Is it according to the number of classics you read? How many famous authors can you list? How many famous characters or lines can you memorize?

I remember that in the eighth grade of elementary school, in the first week of classes, the Portuguese teacher, when explaining how her classes would be, also gave four assignments for the whole year. Each work had to be delivered at the end of each bimester. She wrote on the board:

1 Bimester – 4 books
2 Bimester – 6 books
3 Bimester – 8 books
4 Bimester – 10 books

We had to read the books and write a summary in a specific notebook for that. Once a week we had a reading class, which we could go to the school library to borrow books, we were free to…