Chunkster Reading Challenge: 2011 Challenge

**PLEASE NOTE: The linkies on this post are now CLOSED. Reviews for the 2012 challenge should be posted to THIS POST.

Here is where you can give us a link to your reviews of the books you read for the 2011 challenge...but please remember, the challenge starts FEBRUARY 1st - any books read prior to this date do not count!!

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. Amy (Bloodroot, large-print edition - 549)
2. Lynne (THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN - 549)
3. Jen (Shadow of the Wind - 486)
4. Becky (Our Mutual Friend, 800)
5. David Gorsline (The Public Burning - 534)
6. Jessica ( The Stand - 817 )
7. Sarah (For Whom The Bell Tolls - 471)
8. Bailey (The Forgotten Garden - 549)
9. Cafeshree (Heartstone 450)
10. Cafeshree (Winter Sea 527)
11. The Books of My Life (The Pillars of the Earth - 983)
12. Becky (Little Dorrit, 928)
13. Becky (Framley Parsonage, 576)
14. KC (Atlas Shrugged - 1088)
15. KC (The Swan Thieves - 592)
16. KC (Gone with the Wind - 1037)
17. Amy (Carter Beats the Devil - 658)
18. Rose City Reader (The Food of France - 450 )
19. Mervi (Dracula, 607)
20. The Books of My Life (World Without End - 1025)
21. chaotic compendiums (The Survivor - 528 )
22. Shonna (Crime and Punishment - 472)
23. The Illiterate Peanut (Cutting for Stone - 688)
24. beastmomma
25. Becky (Small House at Allington, 752)
26. The Story Girl (The Emperor of All Maladies - 472)
27. Jessica ( Slice Of Cherry - 505 )
28. Jules (Alias Grace - 560)
29. Rahdragonfly(Einstein-551)
30. Rahdragonfly(Gravity's Rainbow-776)
31. Lynne (NEW YORK - THE NOVEL - 880)
32. Rahdragonfly(Catherine the Great-511)
33. Sarah (A Discovery of Witches - 592)
34. David Gorsline (Watership Down - 474)
35. wutheringwillow (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - 607)
36. Jessica ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - 590 )
37. Violette (Pillars of the Earth)
38. Violette (The Holy Bullet - 571)
39. Alicia (Russian Winter, 480)
40. Violette (World Without End - 1056)
41. Violette (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 644 paperback)
42. Sarah (House Rules - 532)
43. Reflections of a Book Addict (Jane Eyre 558)
44. Melissa (The Book Thief - 550p)
45. Melissa ( Lake in the Clouds - 672)
46. Lynne (ROSES - 609)
47. Jessica ( The Girl Who Played With Fire - 630 )
48. Alicia (Every Man Dies Alone, 544)
49. chaotic compendiums (The Savage City by TJ English)
50. Mel u(Short Stories of Elizabeth Bowen-786
51. Reflections of a Book Addict (The House at Riverton - 496)
52. KC (The Book Thief- 552)
53. Alicia (Fall of Giants, 985)
54. Caribousmom (The Raising - 461)
55. Caribousmom (Sing You Home - 480)
56. Richard LeComte (Angelology, 462 pages)
57. Richard LeComte (A Discovery of Witches, 592 pages)
58. Jessica ( American Gods - 461)
59. Cafeshree (Lover Avenged - 544)
60. Cafeshree (Lover Mine - 615)

61. Lumy (Anna Karenina - 960)
62. chaotic compendiums (House Name - 644)
63. David Gorsline (The Annotated Origin - 495)
64. Amused (The Lady's Slipper - 464)
65. Violette (The Bible of Clay - 512)
66. Shonna (the Winter Rose - 707)
67. Reflections of a Book Addict (The Truth About Mr. Darcy)
68. Lynne (MISTRESS OF ROME - 466)
69. beastmomma(The Chess Garden or the twilight letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven-481)
70. Violette (Fall of Giants - 985)
71. Sarah (Jane Eyre - 493)
72. Amused (The Lost Girls - 560)
73. The Books of My Life (The Rook Trilogy - 1177)
74. Jules (Evening Class - 520)
75. Shonna (Bedtime Story - 483)
76. Mervi (Dracula - 607)
77. Tracy(Zambesi - 467)
78. Becky (Jubilee, 512 pages)
79. Becky (Pickwick Papers, 810 pages)
80. Lynne (QUEEN BY RIGHT - 489)
81. Bev@My Reader's Block (Tristram Shandy 458)
82. Bev@My Reader's Block (The Eustace Diamonds)
83. Cafeshree (Dead Lie Down, 470)
84. Sarah (The Likeness - 466)
85. Becky (Last Chronicle of Barset, 928 pages)
86. Mervi (Traitors' Gate - 877)
87. Jules (Annabel - 461)
88. The Story Girl (Before I Fall - 480)
89. Alicia (The Children's Book, 896)
90. The Story Girl (Cutting For Stone - 667)
91. Jessica ( The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest - 563 )
92. chaotic compendiums (Blood Red Road - 512)
93. The Story Girl (Nefertiti - 460)
94. The Story Girl (Clockwork Angel - 496)
95. Julie @ Knitting and Sundries (The Map of Time - 609 )
96. Julie @ Knitting and Sundries (Drood - 976)
97. Julie @ Knitting and Sundries (The Dragon's Path - 529)
98. Marisa@ArmchairArchives(The Woman in White - 646)
99. Michelle @ The True Book Addict (Queen by Right-494)
100. Michelle @ The True Book Addict (A Game of Thrones-726)
101. KC @ By the By Books (The Idiot- 667)
102. KC @ By the By Books (Madame Tussaud - 464)
103. Cafeshree (Tea Rose - 592)
104. Marisa@ArmchairArchives (Sophie's World - 544)
105. Reflections of a Book Addict (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 734)
106. Wendy@Caribousmom (Anthropology of An American Girl - 597)
107. beastmomma(Cutting for Stone-688)
108. The Story Girl (The Tea Rose - 560)
109. Reflections of a Book Addict (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 652)
110. irene (Bedtime Story 483)
111. Jules (Mistborn 643)
112. Melissa @ Jayne's Books (The Tea Rose - 544)
113. Melissa @ Jayne's Books (The Book of Negroes - 486)
114. Melissa @ Jayne's Books (The Swan Maiden - 540)
115. Melissa @ Jayne's Books (Juliet: a novel - 464)
116. Kat (The Lady's Slipper -- 464)
117. Kat (The Help -- 451)
118. Reflections of a Book Addict (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - 672)
119. Reflections of a Book Addict- Mr. Darcy and the Secret of Becoming...528
120. The Reading Life (Gone With the Wind, 1037)

121. Julie@Reading Without Restraint (Play Dead - 539)
122. Kat (Jane Erye p. 680)
123. The Reading Life (E. M. Forster: A Biography)
124. David Gorsline (Apollo's Angels - 550 )
125. Richard LeComte (The Art of Fielding, 507)
126. Richard LeComte (Sunnyside, 688)
127. Melissa @ Jayne's Books (American Heiress - 468)
128. Melissa @ Jayne's Books (Sing You Home - 466)
129. Michelle @ The True Book Addict (Johnny One-Eye-479)
130. Michelle @ The True Book Addict (The King's Daughter-468)
131. Michelle @ The True Book Addict (Pride and Prejudice-476)
132. Michelle @ The True Book Addict (Crimson Petal and the White-838)
133. Shonna (The O'Briens - 514)
134. Sarah (The Blind Assassin - 521)
135. Lumy (The House of Earth, 1391 pages)
136. Melissa @ Jayne's Books (The Winter Rose - 720)
137. Reflections of a Book Addict (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star - 566)
138. Shonna (Sunnyside - 555)
139. wutheringwillow (Barchester Towers - 477)
140. Shonna (River City - 843)
141. The Reading Life (The Magic Mountain-720)
142. Mervi (Kushiel's Scion - 943)
143. Shonna (The Dovekeepers - 504)
144. Mel u @ The Reading Life-(The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy-539)
145. Reflections of a Book Addict (The Girl Who Played With Fire - 752)
146. wutheringwillow (The Shadow of the Wind - 565)
147. $1000 Video Dance Contest (11-08)
148. Rose City Reader (Cathedral -- 575)
149. Reflections of a Book Addict (Jane Austen Made Me Do It) 464
150. Reflections of a Book Addict (A Gathering Storm - 464)
151. Reflections of a Book Addict (The Wedding Vow - 589)
152. Reflections of a Book Addict (Darcy and Fitzwilliam - 496)
153. Book Obsessed (Lethal - 472)
154. Carin @ Caroline Bookbinder (Woman in White - 567)
155. Carin @ Caroline Bookbinder (Shogun - 1210)
156. Carin @ Caroline Bookbinder (Peyton Place - 512)
157. Carin @ Caroline Bookbinder (Emperor of All Maladies - 470)
158. Amused (The Printmaker's Daughter)
159. Wendy @ Caribousmom (Steinbeck a Life in Letters - 898)
160. Becky (Sunne in Splendour, 944 pages)
161. Becky (Woman in White, 672)
162. Becky (Katherine, 512)
163. Becky (I, Claudius, 480 pages)
164. Becky (A Heart Revealed, 500 pages)
165. Becky (Grapes of Wrath, 619)
166. Mervi (Cyteen - 680)
167. Mervi (A Star Shall Fall 494)
168. wutheringwillow (A Short History of Nearly Everything - 667)
169. Rose City Reader (Worth Dying For -- 525)
170. beastmomma (The Emperor of All Maladies-570)
171. Rose City Reader (Sacred Hunger, 630)
172. Richard LeComte (John Dies at the End, 480 p.)
173. Richard LeComte (Indian Clerk, 496 p.)
174. Lumy (Sophie's Choice, 712 pages)
175. Lumi (The Book of Whispers - 528p)
176. Lumi (To Kill a Mocking Bird - 493p)
177. Lumi (The Stonecutter - 597p)
178. Carin @ Caroline Bookbinder (Doctor Zhivago - 675)
179. beastmomma(Sing You Home-496)

18 comments:

JenFebruary 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM
I recently got rid of the book blog I was writing, so here are the the most recent books I've read for this challenge.

The Angel's Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 544 pages. I loved this one and thought it was possibly even better than The Shadow of the Wind. Although not really a sequel, the setting is the same (although the time period is earlier) and some of the characters from the first book are back again, which I loved. Not to mention The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is at the center of the story again. Yay!! I highly recommend this one.

Desperation, Stephen King, 547 pages. I just finished this one yesterday. I thought it was ok, not my favorite of King's though, by far. I enjoyed the first half of the book quite a bit, as I was being introduced to the cast of characters and being given a serious case of the heebie jeebies. King is the master of giving you the creeps! He kind of lost me in this one with yet another "psychic" child and a sort of ridiculous mythology (I thought) being at the center of the horror. Not a bad read and worth the $1 I paid for it at the used bookstore.
Gilion at Rose City ReaderMarch 9, 2011 at 12:02 PM
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Gilion at Rose City ReaderMarch 9, 2011 at 12:03 PM
So excited to finish my first chunkster of the year! The Food of France by Waverly Root. It makes me think that non-fiction chuncksters should count extra!

Rose City Reader
AnonymousApril 3, 2011 at 6:07 AM
I have completed the challenge already but have at least 1 more chunkster that I am dying to read. It doesn't seem right to do a wrap up post in April so I will hold off until much later in the year. I am sure that there are more chunksters out there that I will be interested in reading.
Sarah Reads Too MuchMay 26, 2011 at 3:42 AM
Finished my 4 books! But maybe I can do 2 more to complete the next level.....
LLJune 24, 2011 at 7:17 AM
I just realized that only adult books count for the challenge! Unfortunately I've already linked to two young adult books in this linky... A Clockwork Angel and Before I Fall (under the name The Story Girl). Just wanted to clear it up that I'm not trying to evade the rules! I've still finished the challenge without these books. Sorry about that!
WendyJune 24, 2011 at 7:31 AM
LL: No problem :) Thanks for letting me know.
Armchair_ArchivesJune 27, 2011 at 9:38 AM
I just finished my first book for the challenge! Hurrah! I knew I'd get to it at some point :)
Armchair_ArchivesJuly 3, 2011 at 6:05 AM
After posting about my first chunkster challenge reading, I realized that a week earlier I had finished a chunkster already! Here's my review of "Sophie's World (544 pages):
http://armchairarchives.blogspot.com/2011/06/sophies-world-by-jostein-gaarder.html
IreneJuly 14, 2011 at 7:23 AM
Another chunckster under my belt, thanks for hosting.
ShonnaSeptember 1, 2011 at 4:32 AM
I had already read the 2 books required for the 450-550 page portion on my challenge, but since this one fit in that range, I'm including it too. Got to find some longer ones still!
ShonnaSeptember 5, 2011 at 9:10 AM
I've now completed my second book over 550 pages. Just the two long ones to go.
ShonnaSeptember 19, 2011 at 5:01 AM
One of my long ones down at 843 pages. It was slow at first, but picked up as I got halfway.
Gilion at Rose City ReaderNovember 5, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Two down, two to go. I'd better get cracking!
Gilion at Rose City ReaderDecember 7, 2011 at 10:19 AM
I just started the 5th of my 6 chunksters -- Sacred Hunger, a Booker winner by Barry Unsworth. I'll get my review up when finished.
LumiJanuary 31, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Last one to finish, but I did it :)
AnonymousApril 7, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Oops, posted a book to this list instead of the 2012 list. 11/22/63 was read for the 2012 challenge.