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The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel | Kate Morton

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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) 2mo

DieAReader 🥳Excellent! 2mo

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Smarkies

Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel

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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! 6mo

dabbe #chunksterchallenge #woohoo 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

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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 😂 10mo

AnnR 😂👏 10mo

dariazeoli I totally sang along with the sign 🤣 10mo

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TheBookgeekFrau I sang it too 🤣 @dariazeoli 10mo

dabbe 🤩😂😃 10mo

Bookwormjillk 🤣🤣🤣 10mo

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. 10mo

BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣🤣 10mo

LeahBergen 😂😂 10mo

BookwormM 🤣🤣 10mo

marleed Hahaha! Alexa play the Evita album 💿 Because now it‘s in my head, too!🤣 10mo

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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! 11mo

TheAromaofBooks Oooo lovely!!! 11mo

Tamra Beautiful! 11mo

Deblovestoread I read this years ago and loved it! 11mo

LeahBergen Oh, I read this years ago! 😍 11mo

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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 2mo

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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 ! 11mo

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Lcsmcat

Untitled | Unknown

I couldn‘t decide what to read for the 2024 #chunksterchallenge, so I decided to let #bookspin choose for me. Some of these are “almost a chunkster” or “chunkster minis,” but these are all on my shelves, and, after Clarissa, I think I‘m ok with that. 😀
@TheAromaofBooks @Amiable

Amiable I‘ve read 2, 7, 13 and 16 —good choices! 11mo

Lcsmcat @Amiable Good to know! 11mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 11mo

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Amiable

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

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

Cuilin, TheBookHippie, GinaKButler, dabbe, Kelly326, LitsyEvents

Balibee146 I'm up for this in 2024....👍 11mo

Ruthiella I‘m in! Brothers Karamazov, here we come! 😃 11mo

Larkken Haha, maybe I can pick back up some slumbering chunksters and give this another go🫣 11mo

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Amiable @Balibee146 @Ruthiella Hooray! 11mo

Amiable @Larkken You can do it! 11mo

AmyG I still need to finish last years chunkster! 🤣 11mo

Amiable @AmyG One page at a time until the end! 😃 Which one were/are you reading? (edited) 11mo

dabbe I like big books and I cannot lie ... 🤩 11mo

Deblovestoread 2024 is the year of reading from my shelves including the chunksters. 11mo

TheBookHippie I‘ve got so many 😅😂 11mo

GinaKButler So excited! This is our lineup: Q1: Peter The Great; Q2: David Copperfield; Q3: The Source; Q4: Vanity Fair 🎉 11mo

quietlycuriouskate Count me in! I have many to choose from, but first I need to finish this excellent one (about 200 pages to go).

The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller

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WorldsOkayestStepMom I managed to read 5 books that were 500+ pages this year! I'm proud of myself! 11mo

Amiable @WorldsOkayestStepMom Yay! Fabulous job! It feels so good when you finish a chunkster, doesn't it? 11mo

Amiable @GinaKButler Ooh, depending on how things are going by Q4, I might hop on board with “Vanity Fair.“ I've been wanting to revisit that one for decades, ever since I read and didn't enjoy/understand in high school! 11mo

Amiable @quietlycuriouskate Excellent! 11mo

Cuilin Yay!! Still deciding but to start definitely reading

The Brothers Karamazov

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GinaKButler @Amiable we would love to have you join!! ❤️ 11mo

Meshell1313 Yes! I loved it this year! Count me in again! 11mo

Mollyanna I‘m in again. I‘ll start with

David Copperfield

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Amiable @Meshell1313 @Mollyanna Hooray! 11mo

Morr_Books I'm in too! I'm starting with the chunkster

Middlemarch

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JenReadsAlot I'm in! Going with

Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

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fredthemoose @JenReadsAlot Yay!! 11mo

fredthemoose I‘d love to join! I‘m working on getting through a biography of each US President and a lot of those are really chunky. 11mo

JenReadsAlot @fredthemoose oh I'm glad you saw this I forgot to tag you!! 11mo

mom2bugnbee Okay, I'm really going to do this this year! I never did finish The Count of Monte Cristo, so I want to go back to the beginning & read it this year! 11mo

PuddleJumper I'm up for this! I've got a few thick books I've been avoiding 11mo

Amiable @JenReadsAlot Oh, I was thinking about this one, too! 11mo

Amiable @fredthemoose I am also doing a presidential bio challenge! Well, I‘ve been slowly and casually doing it for years as the mood hits me, that is. I may do FDR or LBJ this time. (edited) 11mo

Amiable @mom2bugnbee You can do it ! 👍🏼👍🏼 11mo

Amiable @PuddleJumper @Morr_Books Excellent! Welcome aboard! (edited) 11mo

fredthemoose @Amiable oh, great! If you think about it, please let me know if any you liked! 11mo

Amiable @fredthemoose Are you reading the bios in order? I‘ve been hopping around as the mood strikes. Which is really not the best way to get the full picture of the history of the presidency, I fully admit. 😬 11mo

fredthemoose @Amiable I mostly bounce around, although I did the first 8 or so in order a couple of years ago and filled in what I was missing from Truman through the first Bush this year. Now I need to fill in between around the Civil War and WWII. 😬 11mo

Amiable @fredthemoose I just downloaded this one for FDR if you haven‘t done him yet:

FDR

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Lcsmcat I haven‘t decided yet (I know - better hurry!) but I‘m in. 11mo

Amiable @Lcsmcat No rush —you have a whole year to read it! 😀 11mo

Lcsmcat @Amiable Well I know it won‘t be anything by Samuel Richardson. 😂 11mo

Amiable @Lcsmcat Is there such a thing as PCPTSD— “Post-Clarissa Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”? 😄 11mo

Lcsmcat @Amiable I don‘t know, but if there is, we have it. 😂 11mo

Bookwormjillk @fredthemoose the new James A Garfield bio was pretty good.

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

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Bookwormjillk Count me in for 2024! Last year I made a list and read from that, but I think this year I‘ll track my chunksters and see how they fall out naturally. 11mo

Amiable @Bookwormjillk Ooh, I read a bio of Garfield a while back —but this one looks really good. I was impressed by him and thought it was a shame that he didn‘t live long enough to complete his term. I think he would have done good things. 11mo

Amiable @Bookwormjillk That‘s what I‘m going to do, too. After I finish my “official” chunkster, I‘ll be seeing what piques my fancy. 11mo

Bookwormjillk @Amiable me too. At one point I determined that if I could go back in time and change history I would have let him live. 11mo

Smarkies I am planning to do the Wolf Hall trilogy this year. Wish me luck! 11mo

Amiable @Smarkies Oh, it‘s so good! Enjoy! 11mo

rubyslippersreads @Smarkies What a great choice! I‘ve only read the first book, but would love to tackle the trilogy one day. 11mo

Andrew65 I need to target the Chunksters this year so am joining this! I‘ll be starting off with the last book in the Kingsbridge Series by Ken Follett. This is a super Chunkster at 1024 pages. 11mo

Amiable @Andrew65 Fabulous! Welcome to the chunkster crew! 11mo

Andrew65 @Amiable Thanks 😍 11mo

Bluebird I‘ll join this year! I‘ve got several chunksters on my radar for 2024. Currently reading

The Evening and the Morning

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Amiable @Bluebird Hooray! More chunkster love! 😍 11mo

Airykah13 I don‘t know how many chunksters I will get in this year, but I‘m in for the challenge 11mo

Amiable @Airykah13 Excellent! Any amount of chunksters is a worthy goal. Just tackling a giant book is an accomplishment by itself. 🙂 11mo

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Cuilin

Questionnaire | Evan Kindley

@Amiable and others

Any ideas on #chuncksterchallenge next year?

I‘m looking at some but I do better if others are reading too. Some include Le Morte D‘Arthur, Les Mis, Anna Karenina, and Ulyseees. What are ye thinking?🤔 🧐

Photo of White Mountains near Franconia Notch New Hampshire taken by my husband last week.

Ruthiella #Pemberlittens are reading this 1000 page chunkster from January to March if you want to join in

The Brothers Karamazov (Classic Unabridged Edition): A Philosophical Novel by the Russian Novelist, Journalist and Philosopher, Author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The House of the Dead, Notes from Underground and The Gambler

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Cuilin @Ruthiella yes, I‘m definitely planning reading with the wonderful #hashtagbrigade I even sent the preferred translation suggestion to my husband as a gift hint lol 11mo

Amiable I‘m still contemplating a chunkster for 2024. Usually I alternate fiction and nonfiction. I did a fiction book in 2023, so NF would be up next. Not sure if I have one that meets my page count requirement for a #chunksterchallenge , though —I need to check my stacks. (edited) 11mo

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Amiable And also —I already read “Les Mis” for my annual chunkster several years ago and it was torture, so I would definitely not be volunteering for that again. 😖😀 11mo

Amiable I could be persuaded to read “Anna Karenina,” possibly. I do have that one in my stacks. But if you are doing “The Brothers Karamazov” you might not want that much Russian literature at one time. 11mo

dabbe @Amiable Brothers should count as a chunkster, right? 😃 11mo

Cuilin @Amiable I tried Les Mis by myself and bailed. Need to to it with a group. Yeah, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky at the same time is probably not a good idea lol. (edited) 11mo

Cuilin @dabbe I think so. 11mo

dabbe @Cuilin Lordy, I tried Les Mis THREE times and just couldn't do it. It probably didn't help that I saw the musical multiple times. The scene with the candlesticks in the musical lasts about 30 seconds; in the book it was over 100 pages! Yikes! 😱 11mo

Amiable @dabbe Depends on the edition! According to Goodreads, the hardcover first edition of “Brothers” is just under 800 pages. I personally don‘t consider it a chunkster to complete the challenge unless it‘s at least 1,000 pages. But I‘m a sucker for punishment. 😀 11mo

Cuilin @dabbe yeah that‘s why I need a group read. I saw the musical too. Also I thought they did great with the movie. There‘s a fabulous miniseries too. I just need to read the book. 11mo

Cuilin @Amiable @Dabbe The Penguin Classic edition has The Brothers K at 1,013 pages. So if we read that version 🤷‍♀️ 😂 11mo

dabbe @Cuilin That's the one I have! 🤩🤩🤩 11mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable @Cuilin I want to read this nonfiction chunkster

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

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TheBookHippie Also I have the chapter print out I did for 2020 LesMis a chapter a day …I would reread it for 2025 🤣😅 keep it in mind. 11mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe naughty naughty talking bad about my favorite book 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I saw the movie got so mad shut it off 🤣🤣🤣🤣 it‘s not the same! 11mo

Amiable @TheBookHippie Oh, that bio wasn‘t on my radar! It looks really good. I‘m putting it on my list for sure! 11mo

Amiable @TheBookHippie So I just went to look for that FDR book. I was going to purchase the e-book for ease of carrying. Then I noticed another book that this author has written. It's a glowing, fluffy profile of his “good friend“ Donald Trump. 🤮 Who, because of the bio, apparently pardoned Black after he served 3+ yrs in prison for fraud. (Here's an article: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/15/conrad-black-trump-pardons-ex-m... (edited) 11mo

Amiable Having learned all that ⬆️, I'm inclined to pass on his FDR book. Or at the very least, browse through my local used bookstore and see if they have a copy. I'm not spending my money on this author. 😖 (edited) 11mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable ughhhh well not reading that then yuk. I do like FDR I‘ll find another!!!!!! Gads. 11mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable it‘s a pass there must be another good one somewhere!!! 11mo

Amiable @TheBookHippie Have you ever read the LBJ series by Robert Caro? I‘ve wanted to start those for years but haven‘t yet. 11mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable no and same!!! 11mo

Amiable @TheBookHippie This one looks promising

FDR

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Amiable @TheBookHippie What about seeing if anyone is interested in a group read of the Caro books? It would likely be a multi-year project! 11mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable yes! For sure I‘d be in!!! I‘m heading back to class but I‘ll check in later. Last day of school!!! Finally. 11mo

TheBookHippie @Amiable I added to stack that FDR. Mine is headed to the used book store. 🤮 ughh 11mo

Amiable @TheBookHippie Here's an obit for Jean Edward Smith, who wrote the FDR book I tagged above. This is the FDR book I'm putting on my list for sure! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/books/jean-edward-smith-dead.html 11mo

Cuilin @Amiable @TheBookHippie I‘ll pass on these. Biographies are my least favorite genre. I‘d read a history book of an era but it would be a rare memoir/biography that would peek my interest. Christine, I‘ll definitely read Les Mis ‘25 11mo

TheBookHippie @Cuilin I put it in my book! ✔️ 11mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie So you're saying I should try again? 🤩 Which translation would you recommend? 11mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe
Christine Donougher Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) https://a.co/d/8TNwHs6 Plus reading it slower with ppl helps tremendously . 11mo

Cuilin @dabbe This is a website I use to research translations https://welovetranslations.com/2021/07/29/whats-the-best-translation-of-les-mise... 11mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie Thinking this could be my chunkster for 2024. 🤔 Maybe it was my translations that sucked. I haven't tried this one. Thanks for the rec! 😘 11mo

dabbe @Cuilin Well, this is certainly a treasure trove! Thanks! 😘 11mo

Amiable @Cuilin Sorry we highjacked your thread! 😬 11mo

Cuilin @Amiable no worries, I enjoyed the chat. Nice to see what others are thinking about 2024 reads. 🩷 11mo

Amiable @Cuilin I sort of forgot that we were chatting on your thread and not @TheBookHippie 's! 😃 (edited) 11mo

Bluebird @Amiable and @thebookhippie i love Robert Caro! I started with the 3rd book of the LBJ series. It‘s my favorite, but all were great! It‘s definitely a multi-year project. Lol.

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

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Bluebird @Cuilin Ken Follett‘s Knightbridge series is wonderful—all chunksters! I‘m deciding between Pope Joan and the ‘prequel‘ of this series for my Jan booked in time read.

The Evening and the Morning

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Amiable @Bluebird “Pope Joan” is really good! If it‘s the same one I‘m thinking of

Pope Joan: A Novel

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Cuilin @Bluebird I bought the latest Follet for my husband. I need to check the page count. Hmm 🤔 11mo

Bluebird @Amiable yes that‘s the one! If I don‘t read it this month, I definitely plan to read it this year—it‘s on my 2024 shortlist. 😀 11mo

Bluebird @Cuilin Pillars of the Earth is one of my alltime favorites. It‘s the Kingsbridge series, not knightsbridge. 🤦‍♀️. 11mo

Cuilin @Bluebird I saw your comment on Pope Joan, after a little research found it was free on Audible, no credit needed. Started it and am now on chapter 11. 😳 so thanks 🙏 I‘ve also called it Knightsbridge too. 🤔 11mo

Bluebird @Cuilin yay! Congrats on getting Pope Joan free and making a great start. Enjoy! 11mo

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