2008 Chunkster Challenge
Click the button for more info. In last year’s Chunkster Challenge, I won the grand prize and read 10 chunksters in six months. Bookfool was a great host but was unable to do it this year. So thanks, Dana, for stepping up to the plate as many of us have all these chunky books we want credit for! We only have to read 4 titles over 450 pages, one per quarter. It would be great if I could read all these. I’d at least like to read 10 or more to match or surpass last year. We’ll see!
I’ll choose at least 4 from the following:
- Independent People by Halldor Laxness
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
- Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
Okay, so 450 pages doesn’t sound SO bad and only one per quarter lightens it up too; however, even just the word “chunkster” has me running in the other direction! Good for you for joining and I’m sure you’ll meet your goal. Read one for me while you’re at it.
I’m reading The House at Riverton as well! And Sophie’s World is a great choice…Gaardner wrote another book, The Solitaire Mystery (it’s shorter) that I enjoyed even more.
Middlemarch and C&P are also really good. I’ll look forward to your review of the Llosa-I’ve been thinking about reading him for awhile now.
I’m so tempted to do this challenge but I’m SOOOO bad at reading chunksters! Decisions, decisions!
Joy, glad you succumbed!
Eva, I’ll look forward to your review on the Morton book.
Andi, the water’s fine!