The Chunkster Challenge! Read at least one book over 400 pages in the first six months of 2007. I remember from finishing A SUITABLE BOY this year how satisfying a very, very large book can be to complete. I'm going to aim for three, and perhaps I can do more -- Doris Lessing's THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK, Cathy Kelly's WHAT SHE WANTS (which I just had checked out but was too daunted to actually crack open) and Susanna Clarke's JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL (Michelle of overdue books is doing this one too).
Have you read a very large book you enjoyed? Share, please. (One of my favorite books, ANNA KARENINA, is a chunkster -- and I swear I'm not being pretentious, I've read it three times and recommend it to pretty much everyone I know.)
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I am doing the exact amount as well! Magic #3 !! I am also probably going to be reading Jonathan Strange &etc. I really want to read AK but I have a bad bad memory associated with that book. Promise will let u know when I post on it... which I will try to in 2007. Ok fine I will add it on as a chunkster add on... how about that.
Slow on the commenting because for some reason Bloglines doesn't tell me when you update this blog. Boo. But YES to Anna Karenina! I think I need to try Jonathan Strange again. I started it a few years ago and didn't stick with it.
p.s. might want to update the link to my blog that's on this site :)
I preferred War and Peace to Anna Karenina. From memory, it took me 2 months to read. I'm actually surprised more people don't read Tolstoy, I find him MUCH easier to follow than Dickens! I don't know why we have to apologise for seeming pretentious for reading what amounts to a thumping good read :-)
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