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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

2010 Challenge - Link Your Reviews...

**Please note - the linkies here are now CLOSED. To link to reviews for the 2011 Challenge, please go here.

Here is where you can give us a link to your reviews of the books you read for the challenge...but please remember, the challenge starts FEBRUARY 1st - any books read prior to this date do not count!!

I am planning to ultimately create a list of books which could be eligible for the chunkster challenge and I want to organize them by page count...so when you provide the link to your review, please use the following format:

YOUR NAME (Title of Book - page count)

Example: Wendy (Shantaram - 944)

When you provide your link on Mr. Linky, please link DIRECTLY to your review (not the main page of your blog). Links which only lead to the main blog will be deleted.

Finally, if you do not have a blog, please leave a comment telling me which book you read, your thoughts on it, and how many pages it was!

Thanks...and have fun!!!!

1. Melanie (Can You Forgive Her? - 898)
2. beastmomma (the blind assassin-521)
3. Lynne (THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE - 562)
4. Mel u-The Reading Life (The Woman in White)-617
5. Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums (Slaves in the Family) - 505
6. Mel u -The Reading Life (Jane Eyre-493)
7. Helen (The Far Pavilions - 960)
8. Lesley (Someone Knows My Name - 512)
9. Mel u-The Reading Life (The City of Dreaming Books-453)
10. Bibliofreak (The Forgotten Legion-509)
11. Cafeshree (Owl Killers - 495)
12. Amy (Blame-525 large-print pages)
13. Lynne (THE LOST SYMBOL - 509)
14. Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums (Wolf Hall - 532)
15. Beth (The Book of Negroes-470)
16. Wendy (Wolf Hall - 532)
17. Rose City Reader (Three Loves - 559)
18. Jeff (The Robber Bride - 466)
19. Allie-The Mill on the Floss-608
20. Kymmie (World Without End - 1014)
21. April (The Help - 451)
22. Shonna (Burmese Lessons - 463)
23. Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums (Naamah's Kiss - 645)
24. Babblings of a Belligerent Bibliophile (Museum of Innocence - 532)
25. Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums (The Swan Thieves - 564)
26. Cafeshree (Crimson Petal & the White 920)
27. Michelle's Masterful Musings (Dune - 535)
28. Mel u-The Reading Life(The Name of the Rose -501 pages)
29. Book Psmith (Great Expectations - 468)
30. Jeff (The black Hole War - 470)
31. Pam (Angle of Repose)
32. schatzi (The Group - 487)
33. schatzi (The Morland Dynasty: The Emperor 512)
34. Michelle's Masterful Musings (Little Dorrit - 852)
35. Juanita (Ulysses - 1040)
36. Matt (Creation - 593)
37. Helen (Drood - 775)
38. Wendy (The Children's Book - 675)
39. the little reader (Firefly Lane - 528)
40. Kaye-The Girl from Junchow-500 pages
41. Allie-Little Women-489
42. Mel u-The Reading Life (The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane-492)
43. the little reader (The Great Hunt - 705)
44. Melissa (The Corrections - 568)
45. Kymmie (Sashenka - 511)
46. Kaye (The Russian Concubine-517)
47. Kaye (Sons of Fortune-562)
48. Pam (The Adventures of Augie March-586)
49. Mel u-The Reading Life (Villette -656)
50. Matt (City of Nets - 495)
51. Carin (Swan Thieves 565)
52. Carin (Outlander 853)
53. Jeff (A Perfect Spy - 475)
54. Helen (In a Far Country - 640)
55. the little reader (To Say Nothing of the Dog - 493)
56. Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums (Lonesome Dove - 945)
57. the little reader (The Poisonwood Bible - 576)
58. Miss Moppet (When Christ and His Saints Slept - 909))
59. Jenny@All Lit Up (The Children's Book - 624)
60. Wendy (The Little Stranger - 463)
61. pinuccia (The Eye of the World - 800)
62. Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums (City of Night - 467)
63. Tracey (The Lacuna - 507)
64. Tracey (Cutting For Stone - 560)
65. Wendy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - 465)
66. Elena (A Distant Mirror-597)
67. Kaye (Russka-945)
68. Kymmie (The Time Traveler's Wife - 518)
69. Miss Moppet (Mistress of the Revolution - 514))
70. Allie-Alias Grace-468
71. Kaye (The Founding-560)
72. Jenny@All Lit Up (The Balkan Trilogy - 1033)
73. Helen (Wild Swans - 650)
74. Matt's (Dangerous Pilgrimages - 528)
75. Cat (Blood Royal - 578)
76. Kymmie (Those Who Save Us - 479)
77. Allie-The Brothers Karamazov-796
78. Allie-The Count of Monte Cristo-1462
79. Laurie (The Beth Book, 528 p.)
80. Shonna (Crow Road - 501)
81. Miss Moppet (The King's Mistress - 560)
82. Becky from Page Turners (The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - 507pg)
83. Becky from Page Turners (The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter - 438pg))
84. Becky from Page Turners (The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - 626pg)
85. Becky from Page Turners (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 636pg)
86. Helen (Tess of the D'Urbervilles - 464)
87. Bibliofreak (American American Gods 588)
88. Matt (Justinian - 640)
89. Becky from Page Turners (The Girl who Played with Fire - 569pg)
90. Becky from Page Turners (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 531pg)
91. Miss Moppet (To Defy a King - 516)
92. Carolyn (The Eustace Diamonds - 739)
93. Melanie (the Passage- 784)
94. Miss Moppet (The Rich Are Different - 568 and Sins of the Fathers - 660))
95. Julie (New Moon - 563)
96. Alyce (The Post-Birthday World - 528)
97. Melanie (The Girl who Played with Fire- 724)
98. the little reader (The Things That Keep Us Here - 480)
99. Christina (Centennial)
100. Christina (Lancaster Brides)
101. elise (The Historian- 676)
102. Shonna The Passage - 766)
103. Feminist Texican (The Crime of Father Amaro - 480)
104. Pam (A House for Mr Biswas-564)
105. Dominique (The Knife of Never Letting Go- 496)
106. Cat ( New York - 1017)
107. Shonna (A Fierce Radiance - 527)
108. Elena (Plutarch-706 & The Small House at Allington-640)
109. Melwyk (Gaudy Night-557)
110. Melwyk (Green Dolphin Country-575)
111. Cafeshree (Evil Genius -537)
112. Cafeshree (Memoirs Highland Lady - 660)
113. Cafeshree (Girl w/Dragon Tattoo -644)
114. Cafeshree (Red Pyramid - 516)
115. Sumthinblue (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 608)
116. Kinna Reads (Wolf Hall - 535)
117. Tony (The Makioka Sisters - 530)
118. Tony (Barchester Towers - 499)
119. Tony (A House for Mr. Biswas - 564)
120. Tony (Doctor Thorne - 557)
121. Tony (Cloud Atlas - 529)
122. Tony (The Small House at Allington - 663)
123. Tony (The Slap - 496)
124. Tony (The Last Chronicle of Barset)
125. Tony (Oscar and Lucinda - 528)
126. Tony (The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - 469)
127. Dominique (The Children's Book - 615)
128. The Passage - 766 pgs (Jules' Book Reviews)
129. Tony (A Fine Balance - 614)
130. Sumthinblue (Millennium trilogy 2 &3 - 649 746
131. Miss Moppet (Calais - 767)
132. Matt (The Dominion of War - 544)
133. Wendy (Cutting for Stone - 688)
134. beastmomma (Nineteen Minutes-455)
135. Carolyn (Villette - 573)
136. Carolyn (Wives & Daughters - 648)
137. Melanie ( The Neutronium Alchemist, PT 1- 591)
138. Megan (The Bishop - 523)
139. Dominique (The Passage - 766)
140. Lynne (DEVIL'S BROOD - 730)
141. Lynne (HOUSE RULES - 532)
142. the little reader (Someone Knows My Name)
143. Melissa (Freedom - 562)
144. Alyce (The French Blue - 584)
145. Alyce (An Echo in the Bone - 832)
146. Cat(The Woman in White -574)
147. Julie (Lily White - 579)
148. Michelle (Dragonfly in Amber - 974)
149. Melwyk (Middlemarch -908)
150. Wendy (The Search - 488)
151. Laurie- (Anthropology of an American Girl- 624)
152. Jenny@All Lit Up (The Exception - 576)
153. Jenny@All Lit Up (The Lacuna - 507)
154. Jenny@All Lit Up (Museum of Innocence - 532)
155. Pam (Main Street-562)
156. Bibliophile (Oscar and Lucinda - 520)
157. Margaret (Her Mother's Hope - 450)
158. Margaret (Lassoed in Texas - 896)
159. Margaret (Charles Towne Belles - 960)
160. Margaret (A Hope Undaunted 505)
161. The Book Whisperer (East Lynne - 640)
162. The Book Whisperer (The Little Stranger - 512)
163. The Book Whisperer (The Help - 462)
164. The Book Whisperer (The Book of Negroes - 576)
165. The Book Whisperer (The Likeness - 704)
166. The Book Whisperer (A Room Swept White - 480)
167. The Book Whisperer (The Ice Cream Girls - 480)
168. beastmomma(The Help-464)
169. The Sixth Surrender (Jules)
170. Feminist Texican (Some Sing, Some Cry - 558)
171. Feminist Texican (Freedom - 562)
172. Julie (Shocking Pink-498)
173. Jules - (Ireland - 651)
174. Sumthinblue (Pillars of the Earth- 973)
175. Bibliophile (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - 800 )
176. Matt (Sharks & Little fish - 505)
177. Miss Moppet (The People's Queen - 534)
178. Miss Moppet (Time and Chance - 496)
179. Miss Moppet (The Valley of Decision - 768)
180. Miss Moppet (The Mists of Avalon - 1024)
181. Miss Moppet (Chances - 608)
182. Sumthinblue (Grotesque - 467)
183. Elizabeth (Possession - 555)
184. Matt (To the Hermitage - 498)
185. Rose City Reader (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
186. Rose City Reader (Echoes)
187. Miss Moppet (Legacy - 647)
188. Elizabeth (The Lacuna - 544)
189. Tony ('Devils' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 694)
190. Wendy (Freedom - 562)
191. Pam (Of Human Bondage-712)
192. The Spellsong Cycle by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. -- 2933 total pages (Alysha DeShaƩ)
193. Three Dan Brown Books -- 1417 total pages (Alysha DeShaƩ)
194. Julie (The Lost Symbol - 575)
195. Cat (Musashi-970)
196. Elizabeth (The House at Riverton-468)
197. Bibliophile (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - 800 )
198. Pam (The Boys of Summer-474)
199. Tony (An Equal Music - 484 & American Gods - 635)
200. Carin (Outlander - 853)
201. Carin (The Swan Thieves - 565)
202. Carin (Schulz and Peanuts- 566)
203. Carin (Girl With Dragon Tattoo - 590)
204. Carin (A Short History of Nearly Everything - 544)
205. Carin (Cutting for Stone - 533)
206. Carin (Blue Latitudes - 496)
207. Carin (Gone With the Wind- 862)
208. Carin (At Home - 497)
209. Becky (Lady Anna, 560)
210. Becky (He Knew He Was Right, 992)
211. Becky (Blackout, 512)
212. Becky (Desiree, 608)
213. Becky (Emma Brown, 464)
214. Becky (Doctor Thorne, 639)
215. Becky (North and South, 452)
216. Becky (Pamela, 540)
217. Becky (Anna Karenina, 864)
218. Becky (Armadale, 880)
219. Becky (Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 496)
220. Becky (Bleak House, 912)
221. Becky (Moonstone, 544)
222. Becky (Doomsday Book, 592)
223. Tony (He Knew He Was Right, 823)
224. Tony (Buddenbrooks, 759)
225. Laurie (Marcella- 560)
226. Violette (A Suitable Boy-1,474)
227. Violette (Rembrandt Affair-484)
228. Violette (Company of Liars-465)
229. beastmomma(The Book Thief-550)
230. Shonna (The Forgotten Garden 549)
231. Aimee (The Sparrow - 502)
232. Aimee (The Likeness - 693)
233. Julie (Pet Sematary - 562)
234. Aimee (The Woman in White - 609)
235. Shonna (The Ship of Brides 482)

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27 comments:

  1. I don't have a blog,but I would love to join this challenge.


    Rachel D.

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  2. Rachel D: As per the guidelines for this challenge there is ABSOLUTELY NO REQUIREMENT THAT YOU HAVE A BLOG to participate. You do not need to post reviews...I added Mr. Linky for those who wish to post them. You can leave me a comment in this section if you want to let us know what you have read for the challenge (and the page number)...as I noted above :)

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  3. I just read Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown. It was 533 pages. It was a really good book. I have not written a review. However if and when I do I will come back and link to it!

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  4. I just linked to my post about Blame, which squeaked in at 525 large-print pages. Really good read.

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  5. Wendy-I thought I was adding my link to the sign-up Mr. Linky. I'm sorry! Can you delete the one on this Mr. Linky that says Eva (A Striped Armchair)?

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  6. No problem, Eva - all taken care of! Glad to see you joining us :)

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  7. Bummer. I see a "free stuff" spam link in there. Can someone in authority delete that?

    Oh, and I just finished my first chunkster. Need to write my review and will link it here.

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  8. Jeff: Thanks for the heads up - it's gone now. I hate that stuff!!!! Congrats on finishing your first chunkster :)

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  9. Thanks Wendy. And I just posted a link to my review of The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. I wish it was a good review. *sigh*

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  10. I have read Smash Cut by Sandra Brown. It was 512 pages.

    I also read Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner. It was 557 pages!

    Just thought I would let you know so you can add them to the list of chunky books!!

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  11. My first chunkster is When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman, 909 pages. Historical novel about the civil war in twelfth-century England - highly recommended.

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  12. Miss Moppet...I love Sharon Kay Penman's books!

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  13. Sorry, I accidentally linked to the main page of my blog, rather than the post where I reviewed The Children's Book: the actual link is here.

    I don't think I can go back and edit it... do let me know if I need to delete the link and start again!

    Jenny

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  14. I posted a few chunksters I finished, I am up to 6!

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  15. I know I just signed up for this challenge, but I did just finish The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope and it made me want to read more big books! So I hope it counts, but if not, I'm sure I'll read 3 others.

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  16. Forgot the page numbers.

    Lancaster Brides is 478 pages, Centennial is 1,086 pages, and The Lexus and the Olive Tree (which I did not review) is 512 pages.

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  17. Ack! #171 is a repeat; I didn't remember that I'd already posted that review up.

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  18. Just finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Unlike some other long books I have read, I wouldn't cut a single word, and that in itself is a big compliment.

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  19. Gosh darn it! I forgot to leave the page numbers.

    There were 590 pages in my copy of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and 496 in Echoes.

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  20. Oops! I forgot to change the title in my posting of my third book (no. 197 in the list). It's supposed to be The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, at 576 pages.

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  21. sorry, I seem to have linked up two of mine twice. I promise, I did a search first but it didn't find them. My Outlander is at 52 and 200, and my Swan Thieves is at 51 and 201. Can you delete one of each of those? Thanks!

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  22. Sorry, #229 shouldn't be there. I thought I was in the spot to put the wrap up post ... I got it right the second time :-(

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  23. Hmmm...where is the Mr. Linky? I saw the list of links for books already posted, but didn't see the linky thingie. I read Bloodroot by Amy Greene, large-print edition of 549 pages, review here: http://www.newcenturyreading.com/2011/02/bloodroot.html

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  24. Hi Amy, thanks for the reminder to start a new link up for the 2011 challenge! I've added your review to that Mr. Linky which can be found here.

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