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As we start making plans for 2025, check out this #AllergicToChunksters challenge @julieclair will be hosting next year. See her original post for the StoryGraph link if you‘re into that! 💚
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As we start making plans for 2025, check out this #AllergicToChunksters challenge @julieclair will be hosting next year. See her original post for the StoryGraph link if you‘re into that! 💚
I am not a big reader of chunksters but I did complete a few for #ChunksterChallenge2023 !! Most are consider Almost a Chunkster, but Middlemarch qualified as a legit Chunkster, and The Pickwick Papers was awfully close!! 😂 I am also on page 860/1024 in Don Quixote, so that Super Chunkster will be checked off in early 2024!! Thanks for hosting @Amiable !!!!
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! It's the return of the #Chunksterchallenge! So many Littens took down a variety of chunksters in 2023 -- let's do it again in 2024! The goal of this challenge is to tackle the giant books that intimidate us or that we put off reading because we are focused on that year-end book total instead. It's time to get them off the TBR!
Remember: “The journey through a thousand pages begins on page 1.“ 😃
#ChunksterChallenge2024
Starting to work on my year-end wrap-up!
I read 4 chunks this year…1 had over 700 pages, 1 had over 800 pages (but felt like a lot more) and 2 had over 1,000 pages!
Q1: Alexander Hamilton
Q2: Les Miserables
Q3: Hawaii
Q4: The Woman in White
Thank you so much to Amy for hosting the #chunksterchallenge2023 📚
I just finished ordering our 2024 picks!
@Amiable @Kelly326
Taking stock of my #ChunksterChallenge2023 reading at this mid-year point! I planned to read 4 chunksters, one for each category. So far, I‘ve read 6! Four for the challenge, then 2 more I realized later were 500+ pages. I‘m planning 3 more: #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead for July/Aug fits the “Almost” category, and I‘ll count #Clarissa as an “Ultimate” chunkster. And the completionist in me wants to read something for the final “Chunkster” category!
pickThis was a cute kids graphic novel centering on one kid‘s quest to find a sport he is good at in order to make his parents happy. His invisible friend Chunky is his sidekick/mascot and of course the ending is that you need to find what makes you happy, not anyone else. I liked that this showed a bit of the parents POV: worried for his health, job lay offs and financial troubles etc)
pickAbsolutely adorable. I was left with a smile on my face.
At the suggestion of his parents, Hudi is trying to find a sports activity he likes. We watch him try several until he finds his true love, theater. I love Hudi‘s optimistic attitude. It was great seeing him throw himself into everything with such enthusiasm.
Elementary/middle school reading level.
I‘m late posting this, but these are the 4 chunksters I‘m planning on buddy-reading with @Kelly326 for the #chunksterchallenge2022 We‘re looking forward to checking these off the list! ✔️
@Amiable @CoverToCoverGirl
pickFor #December #12in2021 all four of my picks ended up being graphic novels - that‘s most of what I read and wow these stood out! #12thbookof2021
Cheer up - I‘m not one for these normally but with the transgender rep and body positive messages I loved it so much.
I am Not Starfire made me laugh and has the best bff in it ever.
Chunky was so funny and had so much more packed in, a must read!
My Body in Pieces wrecked me emotionally.
@Andrew65
pickOh man, Chunky and Hudi are the best. Adorable middle grade graphic memoir about finding and being yourself.
pickWhat a freaking adorable graphic memoir with a humorous imaginary mascot friend twist. As a fat kid with only one lung and no coordination, Yehudi struggles to find a sport to compete in, almost losing himself in the process. Ultimately about being true to yourself no matter who that is. And just adorably illustrated and narrated with sports commentator-like addresses to the audience and all.
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