Look Out, Harriet!

Just about everyone knows that Harriet Klausner, “Amazon's #1 reviewer,” reads a lot of books. But if Kamae Coffey keeps up the pace she’s set for herself, Klausner might be eating her dust in a couple of years.

Coffey has read about 2700 books in the last three years, sometimes reading three books a night and four on weekends. Oh and -- by the way? -- Kamae Coffey is in grade three.

According to the Journal-Gazette Times Courier:

The Carl Sandburg Elementary School student has easily set a record while participating in the “Reading Counts” program that has been in place at the school for about 20 years. The students earn points for answering questions about the books they read, and Kamae’s total of more than 5,700 points during her three years at the school easily tops the previous record of about 3,000.

The Charleston, Illinois, grade school student reports that she’s been reading since before she hit kindergarten and though she’s read everything on the Reading Counts list, mysteries are her favorite. “I just like the suspense,” she told the J-G T-C. “It’s so intense.”

You can read more about Coffey here.