I'm torn between thinking "The Reading Drive? Yes, I love the Reading Drive" and, having read 150 books to my battle pet in the last two days and thinking I need at least a few more AR points, "Ahh! No! No more books! No more staring at the Book Nook shopkeeper!"
But in a little while I'd be excited for the idea of the Reading Drive again.
I pretty much just froze Clive, hit him with my Mystical Star Shuriken and Almighty Pen and a potion and the Stalactite Star scroll that Rakumel mentioned (and the reason for reading all those books), then kept whacking him with the Grimfruit and the Pen and a potion with the occasional pylonic and Phoenix Quill as necessary hoping that I got critical hits on him and he *didn't* get critical hits on me (as he 1-hit me once when he got a critical hit on a high-damage round.)
(I don't know if the Almighty Pen is the best weapon for the purpose, it just seemed to be the best Tier 4 weapon I could identify pull out of pet treasures for the purpose -- though Duskfeather has almost 50 swords in her treasure, maybe there's a better one in there somewhere! Once the event is over, it and the Shuriken are going back in treasures and maybe the Phoenix Quill too, unless I decide to whack on some of the other 1-player opponents first.)
So far I've been turning in the fairies I've found around the site this year but left previous years' fairies in my vault. If a fairy is worth about 1 teddy bear win, maybe I'll keep doing that and save the fairies in my vault for getting the layout one of these years.