My New Years Resolution to read less guilty pleasures and more "serious" literature has been going pretty well. That promise, however, has led me to more and more book blog websites and challenges. I've already committed to the Dream King challenge and now I've found another that I find intriguing: The Chunkster Challenge. For this challenge, I am promising to read a certain number of chunksters which are books over 450 pages in length in the genre of adult literature, as in not romance/YAL/Harry Potter/Twilight/etc not as in porn..... There are three levels of interest and I've chosen the middle ground:
*Do These Books Make my Butt Look Big? = 3-5 Chunksters before November 15.
To keep myself honest, I'm going to list books which meet the requirements and then read my 3-5 from that list.
Possibilities
Sophie's World
The Pillars of the Earth
Cryptonomicon
Anathem
Gravity's Rainbow
American Gods
Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
Don Quijote
The Three Musketeers
War and Peace
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Challenge Completed: August 28, 2009
Books Read: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Ohhhh...I have always wanted to read Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
ReplyDeleteYou should join the challenge with me!!!!!! Come on...let's read the big books baby!
ReplyDeleteLOL good for you! I usually pick some 'chunks' each year, but not because of their volume! But - and I guess that's your secret motivation as well ;) - because I want to have read some of those classics.
ReplyDeleteThis year I hope to read Moby Dick. Last year I read The Golden Notebook, Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red and a modern classic: The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon.
I believe it was in 2007 that I read Don Quichot ;)
Good luck with your challenge! I have my own reading challenge to finish this year - I already prolongued it from 2008...
I have an irrational fear of super long books; I absolutely love to read and tend to read stacks and stacks of books every year, but for some reason I'll look at the 1152 pages in small print Cryptonomicon and just shudder. Time to get through some of these longer texts.
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