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Jan
09
Chunkster Challenge
2009 at 4pm Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
Let’s just get this out of the way. I love the button for this challenge, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a significant part of my decision to sign up. The other significant part was that I’ve had a few tomes sitting on the TBR pile for far too long, and I’m too excited about them to allow them to become doorstops.
First, the rules:
*A chunkster is 450 pages or more of ADULT literature (fiction or nonfiction) Don’t complain folks, I read all thousands of pages of the Twilight series and they were good, but not a challenge. A chunkster should be a challenge.
*If you read large type books your book will need to be 525 pages or more I asked around and the average LT book is 10-15% longer or more so I think that was a fair estimate.
*No Audio books in the chunkster. It just doesn’t seem right. Words on paper for this one folks.
* You may start any time after signing up. You must complete your reads before or on Nov 15th.
*Short Stories and Essay collections will not be counted.
*Books may crossover with other challenges (see option 4 for a collaborative effort with TBR challenge)
*Only option 4 requires that you make a set list of books to complete the challenge.
The kind hosts of this challenge have given us several options with various levels of participation. I’ve chosen the “Do These Books Make My Butt Look Big?” level, for which I’ll read 3-5 chunksters by November 15th. Here’s what I’m planning on:
I’ve been wanting to read this one for quite a while but decided to hold off until I could get the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, a husband and wife team who are, in my humble Book Lady opinion, the best translators of Russian literature around.
(1296 pages)
A re-read of an old favorite in a newer translation, also by Pevear & Volokhonsky.
(592 pages)
The latest from one of my favorite authors. I’ve had this for over a year now, and I hate to keep a book waiting for so long.
(832 pages)
Edited to add: I’ll also be reading Half of a Yellow Sun (528 pages), which crosses over with the Book Awards Challenge and Cutting for Stone (560 pages). One more chunkster, and I’ll have to go up a level!
My reading calendar has been so full of ARCs and review books lately that I’ve felt like I don’t have time for these chunksters. I’m glad to have this challenge to keep me motivated and to remind me of my reading priorities. Click the button at the top of the page to learn more about the Chunkster Challenge and to sign up.
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War and Peace, that’s brave! I tried reading Until I Find You because Irving is one of my favourite authors but I was a bit disappointed in it and put it to one side. Maybe it was just timing though.
I really should do this, the longer a book the better I like it. I just have so many challenges going. But the first book I read in the new year was 592 pgs., The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates so I sort of have too, right?
I have tomes galore in my TBR – including War and Peace, although mine is an Edmonds translation. I couldn’t resist signing up for this.
I have War and Peace on my list for chunkster’s challenge as well. The book seems to be popular this year.
Good luck to all of us.
Robin
I decided to be easy on challenge this year but I’ll sign up for this one. I will be teaching Crime and Punishment this spring so I’m reading it along with my students.
I read War and Peace last summer so I’ll pass this time. In stead, I’ll read Gone with the Wind and Les Miserables. I’m looking for reading partner so I can keep myself in check.