chunksterChallenge

Completed the #ChunksterChallenge for 2024. 🎉 My first year to hit all four chunkster categories.

@Amiable Thanks for hosting and the motivation to get to the larger books on my shelf.

TrishB Those Follett ones are big books! 4h

AmyG Wow! 🎉 4h

Amiable Now THATS how it's done! Excellent job! 👏 👏 👏 3h

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Amiable An also -- how is the Shardlake series? I've seen a few of you guys reading them for a group -- are they good? 3h

Soubhiville Congratulations! That‘s great. 2h

dabbe @Amiable I may be biased (since I lead the group), but I ADORE THEM! You've got Tudor England, a complicated and lovable hunchback detective named Shardlake (that's what he calls himself), and his arse of a sidekick Barak. Check it out if you're interested! #shardlakeseriesbr 🤩🤗🤩 2h

dabbe #woohooyou! 🤩🤩🤩 2h

Amiable @dabbe I do like a good Tudor novel! I‘ll definitely give it a go. 2h

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Amiable

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

Have you always wanted to tackle War & Peace, Les Miserables or any of the other giant books that double as paperweights, but the page counts intimidate you? Join us for the 5th annual #ChunksterChallenge! It‘s structured with levels to help build up your stamina to take down those super-sized tomes and claim the bragging rights. Because the secret to completing the Colossal Chunkster is simple math – one page at a time!

#ChunksterChallenge2025

Amiable @ginakbutler I changed the names of the categories this year -- because who doesn't want to take down a COLOSSAL CHUNKSTER? 😃 5h

Amiable In 2025, I plan to complete at least this chunkster:

Anna Karenina

youneverarrived I‘ve been telling myself I‘ll read this for a few years but never have - maybe this will give me the incentive to read it 💕

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Amiable @youneverarrived I really liked that one, actually! It‘s very readable. And if I recall correctly, it qualifies as a Colossal Chunkster! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 5h

Deblovestoread Going to try to read Les Mis this year with @TheBookHippie 🤞🏼 5h

Deblovestoread And your post reminded me I did finish a chunkster this year. Will post soon. 5h

Mollyanna One of my favorite challenges (although I didn‘t do so well this past year, a couple bitsys)! I‘ll have to look at my chunksters and decide. 5h

TheSpineView I was going to read War and Peace last year. However, I kept putting it off and before I knew it the year was over. Maybe 2025 will be THE year. 5h

TheBookHippie I love chunksters …shhhhh don‘t tell it upsets the peeps 🤣 5h

Amiable @Mollyanna I hear you. I had 10 this year that would count: 2 Chunksters, a couple of Petites and a few Bitsys. I missed the big-boy level —just didn‘t have the attention span. 5h

JenReadsAlot I skipped this year so will be back in 2025!! 5h

Amiable @TheSpineView Start on Jan. 1 with a chapter a day! It‘s a lot more manageable if you break it down into tiny bites. 5h

Amiable @JenReadsAlot Yay!! Do you have a specific one in mind? 5h

Amiable @TheBookHippie Ha ha, right? There‘s nothing as satisfying as taking down one of the giants, though! 😀 5h

JenReadsAlot Nope 😂 I stil have a couple days! 5h

quietlycuriouskate I have a goodly stack (more of a pillar, really) to choose from. 😊 4h

Amiable @quietlycuriouskate Nice! We‘ll whittle down that pillar to a tall post. 😀 4h

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dabbe Yay for this! I know I have 3 for this year: TOMBLAND for #ShardlakeSeriesBR, LES MIS, which @TheBookHippie is going to get me through (after already trying 3 times in the past), and JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL--just because. Hope I can do it! 🤩 2h

Amiable @dabbe Les Mis was a struggle for me, too—thank goodness I‘m stubborn! I also am thinking about starting Robert Caro‘s mammoth works about LBJ. Although he‘s 89 and still writing the last one and I‘ll be really bummed if the series doesn‘t get completed. 😬

The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

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GinaKButler @Amiable I love this!! @Kelly326 and I are deciding on our Q2-4 picks, but we‘re starting the year with

Napoleon: A Life

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julieclair

Challenges | Serge Lang

I am hosting 4 low-key challenges for 2025. Everyone welcome to join any or all of them. Very casual - feel free to dip in and out as your schedule allows. Choose your own book and use the hashtag when you post your review. All have companion challenges on StoryGraph, for those who find that useful. Links to the original posts and SG challenges are in the comments below.

#ReadOrDonate #AllergicToChunksters #ThematicCozies #FictionalTraveler

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julieclair #ReadOrDonate (same hashtag as last year) original post: julieclair's post on Litsy https://litsy.com/p/ODI5NjV4Z1pr StoryGraph Challenge: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/efdc1ad1-dea0-414f-abeb-38ea1d0... 1d

julieclair #AllergicToChunksters original post: julieclair's post on Litsy https://litsy.com/p/VlN2czZoR2hq StoryGraph Challenge: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/1b8466be-7818-4594-9d7a-1cf09bf... 1d

julieclair #ThematicCozies original post: julieclair's post on Litsy https://litsy.com/p/N2ZwZGE2emlC StoryGraph Challenge: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/f5ca22b5-c3a4-47f6-9456-f2df264... 1d

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julieclair #FictionalTraveler original post: julieclair's post on Litsy https://litsy.com/p/UDdROWZLNldk StoryGraph Challenge: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/eebba389-4e05-42f3-b771-b413425... 1d

kspenmoll These look like fun! 1d

Amiable As the host of the annual #chunksterchallenge for the past several years, I applaud your efforts to tackle and soothe your allergies! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 😀 22h

julieclair @Amiable Thanks for the encouragement! 😘 I considered joining you last year, but wasn't brave enough. 🙄😂 13h

julieclair @kspenmoll So glad you‘ll be with us for 3 of them! 😀 now

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Gissy

The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel | Kate Morton

pick

July 2024 Book #7

This is my second book by this author and I can say that I love the way she writes, how places are described and how characters are developed. This story has multiple timelines and it has, mystery, a murder, , family drama, a touch of paranormal or fantasy. It is so atmospheric I didn‘t feel the 585 pages in this slow pace reading because I was immersed in the story. It worked for me 4⭐️

Gissy #ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @Ghabi4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #BookSpin (#19) Wantee to read it @TheAromaofBooks
YouTuber summer recommendation @MirandaMills
#52bookclub24 prompt #18 (apostrophe in the title)
#chunksterChallenge #AlmostAChunkster 585 pages (edited) 3mo

DieAReader 🥳Excellent! 3mo

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Smarkies

Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel

pick

Though it took a while to acclimatise to Mantel's style, once I got into it, I liked the careful plotting and the interweaving of themes throughout the book.
#chunkstermini
#chunksterchallenge
#chunksterchallenge2024

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Brooke_H

The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas

Finished! 🎉

Purpleness Love the water bottle! 7mo

dabbe #chunksterchallenge #woohoo 🤩🤩🤩 7mo

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BarbaraJean

The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#ChunksterChallenge fail? 😂 😂

Seen today on Facebook, from Bert's Books in Swindon, UK. Now I can't get this out of my head!

Kimzey 😂 12mo

AnnR 😂👏 12mo

dariazeoli I totally sang along with the sign 🤣 12mo

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TheBookgeekFrau I sang it too 🤣 @dariazeoli 12mo

dabbe 🤩😂😃 12mo

Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣🤣 12mo

KAO I was just signing in to post the same image that I saw on Facebook! 😂 Couldn‘t help but sing this aloud when I saw it! 🎶 Actually I am hanging in there with #thebros so far, but the challenge is real. 12mo

BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣🤣 12mo

LeahBergen 😂😂 12mo

BookwormM 🤣🤣 12mo

marleed Hahaha! Alexa play the Evita album 💿 Because now it‘s in my head, too!🤣 12mo

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Lcsmcat

Through a Glass Darkly | Karleen Koen

My copy has a plain cover (the dust jacket was lost ages ago) so here‘s a picture of the beautiful endpapers for my first #bookspin and #chunksterchallenge of 2024. @TheAromaofBooks @Amiable

Amiable Gorgeous! 12mo

TheAromaofBooks Oooo lovely!!! 12mo

Tamra Beautiful! 12mo

Deblovestoread I read this years ago and loved it! 12mo

LeahBergen Oh, I read this years ago! 😍 12mo

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MittenGirlPeach

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath | Heather Clark

Both 1,000 pages plus. #SuperChunkster alert!!! 🚨 #ChunksterChallenge

AnishaInkspill two really good picks, I\'ve read both, Red Comet this year, and The Brontes 2 years ago 3mo

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MittenGirlPeach

The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton

I‘m in for the #ChunksterChallenge! The tagged book cones in at 832 pages. And there are many more in my library. Let‘s do this! @Amiable

Amiable Love it! I still have this one in my stacks —looking forward to your thoughts on it ! 12mo

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