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I think I'm joining the #BigBookSummerReading challenge. I'm not sure if it has a presence here on Litsy. I can't decide what to read though.

Blog post--
https://iamshelfconscious.blogspot.com/2020/05/big-book-summer-reading-challenge...

Deblovestoread Loved Far Pavilions and The Ladies... 5y

ulyssesartmiller I'd be totally up for contributing to said presence, if we wanted to make a thing out of it 😀 5y

Sace @Kdgordon88 Far Pavilions would be a reread for me. I read it 31 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter 5y

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Sace @ulyssesartmiller I'm cool with that! 5y

Deblovestoread I read it many moons ago as well...I know I loved it but couldn‘t tell you a thing about it....60 year old brain. I am impressed you remember when you read it! 5y

Sace @Kdgordon88 ditto! I only remember it because of the I was pregnant part 😂 5y

JamieArc I‘m always up for a Big Book (I call them chunksters). Currently reading A Little Life and I‘m starting A Suitable Boy soon. 5y

rubyslippersreads I‘d forgotten I‘d read the tagged book. The main takeaway for me was learning the phrase, “Aga saga.” 😊 5y

Sace @JamieArc there was a time when I read almost exclusively read chunksters. I don't know what's changed 🙄 5y

Eggbeater ...And Ladies of the Club has a special place is my heart 5y

Sace @rubyslippersreads 🤔 Well that has piqued my interest. 5y

Sace @Eggbeater I *will* read that book before I die! 5y

rubyslippersreads @Eggbeater I bought it as an ebook, because I‘d like to reread it without the chonk factor. 😊 5y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I've seen at least one other post about this recently. I'll have to see if I took a screen shot. I keep reading smaller books, so I might try to read 1 longer book a month. 5y

claffy_reads I remember every mom having ...AtLotC on their shelves when I was growing up. That image doesn't truly show how chunky that book is- the paper is so thin! 5y

Sace @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I sort of blame the goodreads challenge on my short attention span reading over the last 10 years. I used to read one chunkster at a time, then for some reason I started doing the GR challenge and found myself wanting to outdo myself every year so I would read a squillion small books all at the same time. 5y

Sace @callielafleur Ha! It was on my mother's shelf too! So I've been obsessed with it since I was a kid. I had never seen a book so massive. 5y

esanderson @Eggbeater Same!! 5y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I have more time to read now so I'm very close to my goal of 48 for the year and the year isn't halfway through. I think I won't take part in the other challenges, but then I start seeing more posts and think, maybe I can squeeze that one in, too, and end up avoiding the big ones for another month. 🤣 5y

JamieArc @Sace I started making myself read a few chunksters a year a couple of years ago because it forced me to slow down and not worry so much about the number of books I read, kind of like what you were saying. 5y

Sace @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I'm a lazy lemming suffering from FOMO which means I sign up for stuff and then lurk (and somehow I also fail to actually read 🙄) 5y

Sace @JamieArc I really want to get back to savoring books and not gobbling them down like I'm at a hot dog eating contest. I was set on working toward that this year and then, well, we know what happened. My attention span is not up to the task right now. 5y

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