Chunkster Reading Challenge

Book Giveaway - THE STREET SWEEPER by Elliot Perlman

2012-01-21T08:45:00.000-08:00

The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman

ISBN 9781594488474

640 pages

Riverhead (05 Jan 2012)

Thanks to the generosity of the publisher, we are delighted to offer a copy of The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman to one lucky winner. Please carefully read the information about how to enter the contest below!!!

First, let me give you a little information.

ABOUT THE BOOK.

From the Publisher:

Lamont Williams is a paroled felon looking to turn his life around, working as a street sweeper at a large city hospital and searching for his estranged daughter. Adam Zignelik is a struggling, nontenured professor, paralyzed by looming failure, his life falling apart around him. He discovers a cache of recordings of previously unheard voices reaching out from a horrific past, voices that can both save his career and bring him back to the woman he loves. At the same time, Lamont forges an unlikely friendship with a dying man, who, having lived through those horrors, has a crucially important story to tell and to preserve. The worlds surrounding these two men, their families, their pasts, their potential futures, swirl in and out of history as the forces of the Holocaust, the American civil rights movement, Chicago unions, and New York City racial politics combine in a thrilling cross- generational literary symphony.

The acclaimed author of Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman weaves the narratives of Lamont and Adam-and their myriad connected friends, lovers, and families-into an ambitious, masterful depiction of the power that memory has over our lives.

Read Wendy's review.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Elliot Perlman was born in Australia. He is the author of the short-story collection The Reasons I Won't Be Coming, which won the Betty Trask Award (UK) and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Book of the Year Award. He is also the author of two previous novels: Three Dollars (1998, and Seven Types of Ambiguity (2003) which was shortlisted for the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best Book), the 2004 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (Best Fiction Book), and 2004 The Miles Franklin Award.

Read a guest post by the author.
Watch a video interview with the author.

HOW TO WIN A COPY

The facts about the giveaway:

Contest is open from January 21, 2012 to January 29, 2012. A winner will be announced on January 30, 2012 here on the blog.
This is an International contest (if the winner is from the US or Canada, the publisher will be sending you a copy of the book; if the winner is outside of the US or Canada, your book will come directly from us)

To ENTER the contest:

To be eligible, you MUST be signed up as a participant in either the 2011 or the 2012 Chunkster Challenge. People who are signed up for BOTH the 2011 and the 2012 challenge will receive two entries in the contest. Please note, the 2011 challenge is now closed for new sign ups, so you must have signed up previously for that one. You still have time to sign up for the 2012 challenge - the giveaway is open until 5:00 pm (PST) on January 29th and as long as you sign up by then, you are entered.
IF you have signed up through Mr. Linky, you do not need to do anything else - you are entered! PLEASE DO NOT leave an additional comment here!

IF you do NOT have a blog and have signed up through comments, you MUST leave a comment on this post telling us you are signed up. If you are signed up for BOTH 2011 and 2012, please leave us TWO comments on this post. PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR EMAIL FOR US TO CONTACT YOU.
If you have questions about eligibility or how to sign up, please use the commenter form here. DO NOT leave questions in the comments on this post!!
Want an extra chance to win? Blog about this contest and leave a comment on this giveaway post with a link to your post about the contest.

How we choose a winner:

We will randomly draw ONE winner from the sign up links for 2011 and 2012 and from all comments on this post on January 29th and announce their name here on the blog. If you have contact information on your blog, or you have left us a comment with your email address (if you do NOT have a blog), we will also contact you via email. You will have five days to respond to us to claim the book. If we do not get a response within five days, we will draw another name.
Please consider subscribing to our blog so that you will know if you have won!

GOOD LUCK!!!!

FTC Disclosure: Book giveaways and featured book articles are NOT paid promos. Although this book for giveaway is supplied by the publisher, The Chunkster Challenge administrators have not accepted payment to host this giveaway or to feature this book.

Guest Post - Author Elliot Perlman

2012-01-17T07:44:00.000-08:00

The Street Sweeper, by Elliot Perlman

Today author Elliot Perlman joins us on the Chunkster Challenge blog with a special guest post. Vasilly and I are thrilled to have him here - and we hope you will enjoy this feature which gives wonderful insight into the inspiration for his latest novel and the process of writing a book of this length. First a little about Mr. Perlman:

Many thanks to Mr. Perlman for taking the time to craft a guest post for us!

In the early 2000s I was living in NewYork across the street from the mini-metropolis that is MemorialSloan Kettering Cancer Center. Patients came to the giant hospitalfrom all over the world for treatment there. Visitors, bewildered,sad or numb, came from all over the world too.

I used to catch the bus at a stopoutside the hospital and see the hive of activity and the interactionof seemingly disparate people of different ages, socio-economicgroups and educational levels, people of different races, ethnicitiesand nationalities, all milling around each other. So stressed werethe visitors and many of the staff that they chain-smoked toalleviate their stress out on the street besides patients inwheelchairs.

To a writer observing this scene, themultitude of smokers outside the cancer hospital, people of alldifferent backgrounds forming an instant but transient community, allof this is the gold that sends one off in search of the goldmine thatis the answer to the question, “What if an unlikely friendship wasto blossom out of all of this?”

From here came the answer that was theseed for The Street Sweeper. We see the beginning of anunlikely relationship between two men who, statistically should neverhave met. One of them is an African American janitor, awrongly-convicted recently released ex-con, the first ex-con to beput on six month probation in a pilot program to help ex-consre-integrate into society, a man desperate to keep his job, find hisyoung daughter and get his life back on track. The other is an oldwhite man battling cancer, a Jew in his eighties with only wisps ofhair and thick European-accented English, a Holocaust survivor. He’sa survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and even rarer thanthat, he was a member of the Sonderkommando, those Auschwitzprisoners forced by the Nazis on pain of death to work in the gaschambers and crematoria.

In a 21^st century survivalstory these two men will need each other in ways neither of themcould ever have imagined. And this is only the very beginning.

I often get asked where the beginningcomes from and if I know at the beginning how long the book will beor how long it’s going to take me to write it. Perhaps it’s amistake on my part but when starting one of my books I don’t reallythink very much at all about the length. Somehow, and it happensvariously, I get the idea for a story, what you might call a plotoutline, and I start making notes. I might start doing someresearch. I’ll read something, hear something, go somewhere andwatch people, interview someone and then the plot really starts totake shape. Nowhere in any of this do I start thinking about length. Given the length of my most recent two books, you’d think I wouldhave (or at least I should have) given some specific thoughtto the question of length. Seven Types of Ambiguity took mealmost 4 years to write and I think it weighs in at about 230,000words. The Street Sweeper is a bit shorter but took longer,in large part because The Street Sweeper required moreresearch than my 3 previous books put together.

The Street Sweeper took about 5½ years to write. In addition to all thereading that I had to do for it there were the interviews. Iinterviewed people all over New York; historians at Columbia,ex-cons, social workers, lawyers. Then the story took me to Chicago,specifically to the Illinois Institute of Technology where DavidBoder, the inspiration for my character, the academic psychologistHenry Border, had taught and researched. Then I interviewed formerstudents of his enrolled then in his masters program working on the“Adjective- Verb Quotient”. Then I went to the all-importantSouth Side of Chicago to see where the meat works were and where myAfrican American Chicagoans lived. I had the good fortune to beshown around there by a charming African American gentleman then inhis 80s who was able to tell me about life in that time at thatplace. I interviewed people in my hometown, Melbourne, Australia.Then of course there were my trips to Poland and particularly the 6trips to Auschwitz. I found a guide at the Auschwitz State Museumwho went from being a trusted guide to a friend and confidant. Tohim I confided the wartime plot. He gave me great encouragementurging me to tell this story. Not only that but he introduced me tothe last surviving Polish Jewish member of the Sonderkommando. It was this man’s wartime experiences that became the basis for mycharacter, Henryk Mandelbrot, the Holocaust survivor in the New Yorkhospital who befriends the African American ex-con.

I knew it wouldn’t be a short bookbut that didn’t bother me or faze me in any way. As a reader I’veenjoyed works of all lengths but so many of the books that influencedme, as a writer and perhaps even as a person were, now that you forceme to consider it, long books. As a young man I was a devotee ofmuch 19^th Century fiction; Dickens, George Eliot, ThomasHardy, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola and the Russians of course. Even whenI moved into the 20^th century, many of my favourite bookswere long ones; Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate and RobertMusil’s, The Man Without Qualities. It’s such anincredible comfort to discover a new favourite writer or a long bookin which you just want to lose yourself, to immerse yourself. Whatever else is going on in your life, you know the book is therewaiting for you with characters you already know and about whom youwant to know more. But to be honest, I’ve also read a lot of shortstories and poetry of various lengths and one of my books, TheReasons I Won’t Be Coming, is a collection of short stories soI don’t think I’m fixated on length. I have to admit though thatone of the short stories in The Reasons I Won’t Be Coming,the last one called, “A Tale in Two Cities”, is about 100 pages. That’s probably quite long for a short story. Now you’ve got methinking!

Chunky Book Club: Reads Scheduled for 2012

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The votes have been cast. The poll is now closed...and we have FOUR clear winners for the books we will be reading and discussing this year.

The four books for the year are:

The Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (52.1% of the vote)
11/22/63 by Stephen King (47.9% of the vote)
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (37.5% of the vote)
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (31.3% of the vote)

Below is the schedule for our 2012 Chunky Book Club:

March 2012: 11/22/63 by Stephen King

June 2012: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

September 2012: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

December 2012: The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

If you are planning to participate in these book club reads, I hope you will consider subscribing to the blog. Posts about the selected books will begin appearing at the beginning of the month for each book and discussion will begin on the 15th of each month EXCEPT for December when questions will begin posting on the 5th (due to the holidays).

Vasilly and I are REALLY excited about the book club and we hope you will consider joining us for one, two, three or all four discussions! Remember, you do NOT need to join the challenge to participate in the book club (although, of course, you are welcome to do both!).

Featured Book for January: The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman

2012-01-05T09:01:00.000-08:00

The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman is being released today through Riverhead/Penguin and it is our featured book this month here on The Chunkster Challenge. At 640 pages it definitely qualifies as a chunkster! Watch the blog mid-month for a guest post by the author...which will be followed up with a giveaway of the book. To be eligible to win, you must be signed up either for the 2011 or the 2012 Chunkster Challenge.

In the meantime, check out this video interview with Perlman about the writing of his book:

FTC Disclosure: Book giveaways and featured book articles are NOT paid promos. The Chunkster Challenge administrators have accepted no payment (except for a review copy of the book) to feature this novel.

Reminder: Chunky Book Club Poll

2011-12-31T13:26:00.000-08:00

We have had a terrific response to our Chunky Book Club Poll...but we would love to have more people vote before the poll closes. There have been no new votes for about a week...so I may close the poll early unless I see a new surge of interest in the next couple of days.

If you have NOT voted and are interested in joining us this year, please hurry over and cast your vote!!

The poll may be found on THIS POST.

2012 Challenge - Links to Reviews

2011-12-28T07:39:00.000-08:00

Here is where you can give us a link to your reviews of the books you read for the 2012 challenge...but please remember, the challenge starts JANUARY 1st - any books read prior to this date do not count!! If you are still reading for the 2011 Challenge (which does not end until January 31st - visit this post to link to your review).

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!!!!

Sometimes Change is Good...

2011-12-16T09:04:00.000-08:00

A new year.

The addition of a new administrator.

Some new changes to the rules.

So, why not a new look too? Stop by and enjoy the whimsical feel we've adopted. And while you're here, check out our contact page and about page - and see what we're doing to help you find the chunky books you have always wanted to read - so far we have suggestions by page number, and Vasilly is working hard to put together a page for suggestions by genre (stay tuned!).

We are also REALLY excited about hosting the first ever Chunky Book Club - visit the Book Club page and the introductory post where you can vote on the books we will be reading in 2012. Watch for a schedule by January 11th.

This year we will also be highlighting selected chunksters in two ways:

Randomly selected books and reviews from the Mr. Linky reviews for 2012, AND
Features of brand new fiction coming out in 2012 which meet the criteria of a chunkster. These will include guest posts by authors and giveaways!

Our first featured book will be The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman - watch for information about this book, a feature by the author and a giveaway to one lucky winner in January. Please note that to be eligible for the giveaway you must be signed up for the Chunkster Challenge (since the January giveaway overlaps both the 2011 and 2012 challenge, all participants signed up for 2011, as well as those signed up in 2012 will be eligible - if you've signed up for both, then you get a double entry)!

FTC Disclosure: Book giveaways and featured book articles are NOT paid promos. Although books for giveaway will be supplied by the publisher (in most cases), The Chunkster Challenge administrators do not accept payment to host these special events.

We are really excited about the changes and additions we are making to the blog, and hope that you will find them to be an added benefit to joining us here. Please consider subscribing to this blog to keep up to date on all that is happening.

The Chunky Book Club

2011-12-14T09:17:00.000-08:00

Vasilly and I have put our heads together and come up with an idea we hope you will like - a book club to celebrate the chunky books. We are planning to read four books per year (or one book every three months) for this book club - giving participants plenty of time to read the book up for discussion. Here is how it all works:

At the beginning of each year we will post a poll on the blog asking people to vote for FOUR books they would most like to read. The top four vote-getters will be our reads for the year. If there is a tie, we will post a tie-breaker poll.
Book club discussions will occur here on the Chunkster Challenge blog in the following months: March, June, September and December.
Discussion questions will be posted to the blog beginning on the 15th day of each of those months and participants will discuss the book club read for that month in the comments section of each post. In general, discussions will run through the end of the month, but participants will be welcome to continue discussing the book for as long as there is interest.
A Mr. Linky will be provided for participants to link to their reviews of the book.
Participants in the Chunky Book Club do NOT need to join the Chunkster Challenge, although you are more than welcome to do both!

We have created a page on this blog dedicated to the Book Club where we will provide a schedule for the club and links to discussion posts and Mr. Linky posts (so participants can easily find them).

If you are interested in participating in the Chunky Book Club, please complete the poll below to vote for the four books you would be most interested in reading and discussing in 2012.

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Chunkster Challenge - 2012 Sign-ups!

2011-12-13T19:39:00.000-08:00

January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012

Below are the details and sign-ups for 2012. Wendy and I have made a few changes to the rules including the date. Next year’s challenge starts the first day of the year instead of in February as it usually did. That way participants who didn’t sign up for the 2011 challenge or those who’ve already finished, can start reading their chunksters in January and count them for this challenge. The 2011 challenge will still end on January 31, 2012.

Definition of a chunkster:

A chunkster is 450 pages or more of ADULT literature, whether non-fiction or fiction. A chunkster should be a challenge.

If you read books in large print, your books will need to be 525 pages or more. The average large type book is 10-15% larger or more so it’s a fair estimate.

The rules:

No audio books. (There are exceptions to this rule.)
No e-books allowed. This was discussed in much detail in the 2011 challenge. The short version: a chunkster isn’t a challenge if you’re reading it on an e-reader. (There are exceptions to this rule.)
This year for the first time, essay, poetry, and short story collections will be allowed. Collections have to be read in their entirety to count. If you’ve needed a reason to finally pick up your copy of The Collected Works Of ____ now is the time.
Books may crossover with other challenges.
Anyone may join. (If you don’t have a blog, just leave a comment on this post with your challenge level and your progress throughout the challenge.)
You don’t need to list your books ahead of time.
Once you’ve picked a level, that’s it. You’re committed to it!

You must pick a level of participation:

The Chubby Chunkster – this option is for the readers who want to dabble in large tomes, but really doesn't want to commit to much more than that. FOUR Chunksters is all you need to finish this challenge.
The Plump Primer - this option is for the slightly heavier reader who wants to commit to SIX Chunksters over the next twelve months.
Do These Books Make my Butt Look Big? - this option is for the reader who can't resist bigger and bigger books and wants to commit to SIX Chunksters from the following categories: 2 books which are between 450 - 550 pages in length; 2 books which are 551 - 750 pages in length; 2 books which are GREATER than 750 pages in length (for ideas, please refer to the book suggestions page for some books which fit into these categories).
Mor-book-ly Obese - This is for the truly out of control chunkster. For this level of challenge you must commit to EIGHT or more Chunksters of which three tomes MUST be 750 pages or more. You know you want to.....go on and give in to your cravings.

Want Suggestions of what to read?

Check out the Chunky Book Suggestions page. Throughout the year, we will be adding new books to this page.

To review or not to review, that is the quesion...Reviews are not mandatory, but they are strongly encouraged. We will be putting up a Mr. Linky at the beginning of the challenge for links to your reviews. We will also be posting a Mr. Linky for wrap up posts at the end of the challenge.

To sign up, please use Mr. Linky below by linking DIRECTLY to your post about the challenge (please, please - do NOT link to your main blog page!!). If you do not have a blog, please just leave a comment telling me you are joining the challenge. Thanks! There is NO deadline for sign ups - sign up whenever you want through the end of the challenge period.

2011 Wrap-Up

2011-12-13T17:02:00.000-08:00

We still have a month left in the Chunkster Challenge but if you've finished early, you can now link to your wrap-up posts. Please link directly to your wrap-up post instead of to your blog's main page. That way we can go and congratulate you. If you don't have a blog, just leave a comment on this post letting us know that you completed the challenge and how many books you read. If there's a chunkster you read and loved this year, let us know that too.

Do you think you won't finish the challenge in time? Don't worry. The Chunkster Challenge in 2012 will now start on January 1st and wrap-up on December 31st.

Please Welcome Vasilly!

2011-12-08T07:54:00.000-08:00

We have a new administrator here for the Chunkster Challenge. Vasilly blogs at 1330V and has offered to come on board to help with the administration of the blog and challenge...which makes me very happy!

Vasilly and I are going to be putting our heads together and talking about how we do things here - so you may see some changes down the road.

How is everyone doing with the challenge? Remember this one runs through the end of January - so you still have plenty of time to reach your challenge goals!!

2011 Challenge - Link To Reviews

2011-02-13T08:56:00.000-08:00

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!!!!

TWO Exceptions for Rules of 2011 Challenge

2011-01-07T15:49:00.000-08:00

Thank you to those readers who pointed out that due to disability, some readers may have no choice but to use an e-reader or audiobook.

So there are exceptions for the rules of No audiobooks and No e-books as follows:

Those readers who have a disability which excludes them from reading traditional books, may be excepted from the two rules and may substitute audio or e-books.
If you fit the criteria for exception, please use the page count for the traditional book as your number of pages.
You do NOT need to ask me for the exception. This challenge is based on the honor system. So if you have a disability, then take the exception and sign up as you normally would sign up.
Please do not take the exception just because it is more convenient for you to listen to a book or use an e-reader, or because it is easier.You must actually have a disability in order to be eligible for the exception.

Hope this will put people at ease and clear up any misunderstandings.

The Controversy Around Reading E-Books

2011-01-05T18:21:00.000-08:00

Since I have gotten several comments AND some emails complaining about the rule re: no e-books for this challenge, I thought I would address it in this post.

First of all, this challenge celebrates REAL books that are chunky. It is about holding an actual fat book in one's hand and reading it. Dana (who started the challenge) felt strongly about this, and so do I. I am a traditionalist at heart when it comes to books. I do not think it is a bad thing to celebrate an actual physical book. In my heart, I believe readers who are giving up the real thing to read digitally are missing out on something wonderful - the heft of a book in your hands, the smell of the pages, the tactile pleasure of an actual book. Part of why I am hosting this challenge is to challenge readers to pick up a REAL book with some weight and read it. That's the challenge.

Secondly, I have no idea how to translate number of pages in an e-book to number of pages in an actual book, and I don't really want to try to figure it out (so please don't start emailing me with formulas).

Someone mentioned that it takes longer to read an e-book than to read an actual book. I have no idea if that is accurate or how we would go about proving it ... But, regardless, it doesn't matter because how long it takes to read the book is not relevant. It is all about the page count.

I am very sorry that some people are upset with this rule. I know I am not making everyone happy, but I also feel okay about the guidelines. I don't think that every challenge needs to have the same flexibility - the idea of a challenge is to challenge you. For some, the challenge may be to put aside your digital reader and pick up a traditional book.

I suppose if every single person said they would not join because of this rule, I'd have to think about changing it (or maybe I would just not host The Chunkster anymore). But so far 44 people have signed up and do not have a problem with no e-books (and last year 189 bloggers participated and quite a few non-bloggers joined)...so it seems that it is a very small percentage of disgruntled readers who are complaining about not being able to use their electronic readers.

Bottom line: This is supposed to be fun. I don't get anything out of hosting this (and all the work it takes to keep the blog current) except that it is fun to read books with all of you. It is beginning to bum me out that so many people feel it necessary to complain about something that is completely voluntary as to whether or not you join. No one is saying you can't read fat books on e-readers...they just don't count for THIS particular challenge.

If I sound annoyed it is because I worked a very long day today, came home and started reading complaints about something that really and truly is a minor thing in the scope of life. So please, if you want to be upset, okay be upset...but don't tell me about it anymore because I am not changing the rules this year.

Chunkster Challenge 2011 - SIGN UPS

2010-12-28T17:52:00.000-08:00

I have a lot to do to wrap up this challenge for 2010 (those participating have until January 31, 2011 to complete the 2010 challenge!). I know many of you have posted your review links (there are over 225 reviews posted!!!) and I want to get the Chunky Book Suggestions page updated with all the fabulous books read in 2010. Don't forget to leave a link to your wrap up post for 2010 (or leave me a comment letting me know you finished!). So while I'm updating the blog and getting things tidied up...I thought I'd give you all a chance to sign up for the 2011 Challenge which will run from...

February 1, 2011 through January 31, 2012

Below are the details and sign ups for 2011 ... I've made a few changes which I hope you will like...ie: I've added another level of participation AND I've changed the number of books you need to read for each level.

Definition of a Chunkster:

A chunkster is 450 pages or more of ADULT literature (fiction or nonfiction) ... A chunkster should be a challenge.
If you read large type books your book will need to be 525 pages or more ... The average large type book is 10-15% longer or more so I think that was a fair estimate.

The Rules:

No Audio books in the chunkster. It just doesn't seem right. Words on paper for this one folks. (**Please view THIS POST FOR EXCEPTIONS to this rule)
No e-Books allowed - we are reading traditional, fat books for this challenge (please see this post to understand the rationale behind this rule; please see this post for exceptions to this rule)
Short Stories and Essay collections will not be counted.
Books may crossover with other challenges
Anyone may join. If you don't have a blog, just leave me a comment on this post with your progress (and to let me know you are playing)
You don't need to list your books ahead of time.
Once you pick a level, that's it...you're committed to that level!

You must pick a level of participation:

The Chubby Chunkster - this option is for the reader who wants to dabble in large tomes, but really doesn't want to commit to much more than that. FOUR Chunksters is all you need to finish this challenge.
The Plump Primer - this option is for the slightly heavier reader who wants to commit to SIX Chunksters over the next twelve months.
Do These Books Make my Butt Look Big? - this option is for the reader who can't resist bigger and bigger books and wants to commit to SIX Chunksters from the following categories: 2 books which are between 450 - 550 pages in length; 2 books which are 551 - 750 pages in length; 2 books which are GREATER than 750 pages in length (for ideas, please refer to the book suggestions page for some books which fit into these categories).
Mor-book-ly Obese - This is for the truly out of control chunkster. For this level of challenge you must commit to EIGHT or more Chunksters of which three tomes MUST be 750 pages or more. You know you want to.....go on and give in to your cravings.

Want Suggestions of what to read?

Check out the Chunky Book Suggestions page.

To review or not to review, that is the quesion...Reviews are not mandatory, but they are strongly encouraged. I will be putting up a Mr. Linky at the beginning of the challenge for links to your reviews. I will also be posting a Mr. Linky for wrap up posts at the end of the challenge.

To sign up, please use Mr. Linky below by linking DIRECTLY to your post about the challenge (please, please - do NOT link to your main blog page!!). If you do not have a blog, please just leave a comment telling me you are joining the challenge. Thanks!

1. Nathalie @ Books about Books
2. Becky @ Becky's Book Reviews
3. Rae Reads
4. Amy
5. Lynne
6. Paul @ Somerset Books
7. Amanda R
8. Christina (Ardent Reader)
9. Dusky Literati
10. Violette
11. Martha G
12. Laura@ The Scarlet Letter
13. Rita Silva
14. Julie @ Reading Without Restraint
15. Michel
16. Amused (Amused By Books)
17. Shonna (Canadian Bookworm)
18. Robin @ Robin's Reads
19. Book Snob Wannabe
20. Hillary
21. Alyce (At Home With Books)
22. Emily (Seriously Reading)
23. Caitlin (chaotic compendiums)
24. Denise
25. Bailey (The Window Seat Reader)
26. Rahdragonfly
27. Mervi (Mervi's Book Reviews)
28. Kymmie @ Je Lirai
29. Jen (Crowded Bookshelves)
30. Brittanie (A Book Lover)
31. Reflections of a Book Addict
32. Jules (Jules' Book Reviews)
33. Aimee @ Poisoned Apples
34. Nan's Corner of the Web
35. Julia
36. LifetimeReader @ LifetimeReadingPlan
37. Melissa (Life:Merging)
38. Jen
39. Jennygirl @ Jenny Loves To Read
40. Veronica
41. David Gorsline
42. Alicia
43. Bev@My Reader's Block
44. Jeff W @ My Cocaine
45. UMESH PATIL
46. Wataya

47. Wendy (Caribousmom)
48. theoncominghope
49. Kate
50. Condorena
51. The Passive Voice
52. Linsey (Just Let Me Finish This Chapter)
53. Stefanie
54. Buffy
55. Natalie
56. Matt
57. Lorren @ The Story Girl
58. Rose City Reader
59. Sharon (Books to the Ceiling)
60. Malia
61. Alysha DeShaé
62. Jen (Jen and the Pen)
63. Condorena-Verghese,Cutting For Stone
64. Stacy (Stories & Stitches)
65. The Reading Geek
66. Marisa@Armchair Archives
67. Jen
68. RichLeC
69. M (@notarevolution)
70. The Illiterate Peanut
71. Carin (Caroline Bookbinder)
72. snack_size
73. My Round File
74. Ten Dollar Aviators
75. Lumyker
76. Marianne
77. Andrew
78. The Year of Difficult Reading
79. Kat
80. Michelle @ The True Book Addict
81. Michelle @ On and Off My Plate
82. Jenny O
83. JonnaDee
84. kim in ohio
85. Jo-Jo Loves to Read
86. Rebecca @ Notes Written in the Margins
87. Melissa (Remember to Breathe)
88. Coni (books and gardens)
89. DaisyChain @ chocolate covered books
90. Nisha
91. Biblio Baggins
92. Aoife (Hughes & Hughes Booksellers)

93. Young1
94. Sarah (A Rat in the Book Pile)
95. Kah Woei @ The Books of My Life
96. Tasha @ Book Obsessed
97. Sarah Reads Too Much
98. Colie @ Jump with Both Feet
99. Bex @ An Armchair by the Sea
100. Free Tv Shows Online
101. Melissa (The Betty and Boo Chronicles)
102. Aleksandra's Corner
103. Christina Rosendahl (the Literary Bunny)
104. Matt Stump
105. LTHMPLS
106. Cafeshree
107. Steve Morrison
108. Andrew (Decatur Rambler)
109. The Reading Life-
110. R @ journal de novo.
111. Julie @ Knitting and Sundries
112. Rose City Reader
113. Charlie @ Bitsy Bling Books
114. Cathy
115. Ricki @Reading Challenged
116. Jessica
117. Notorious Spinks Talks Books
118. Cathy Geagan
119. Cathy Geagan@ A Slice of Hope
120. sawcat
121. KC @ By the By Books
122. NaKesha @ Totally Obsessed
123. beastmomma
124. wutheringwillow
125. Mehak
126. Cheyanne
127. Reflections of a Book Addict (Jane Eyre 558)
128. Woof
129. Alicia (Fall of Giants, 985)
130. Tracy
131. The Story Girl - (Cat's Eye) - 460
132. Kat @ A Journey Into Reading:
133. Amy
134. Lily
135. Speedreader
136. Magda S
137. Melissa @ Jayne's Books
138. Laura @The Scarlet Letter (The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore) - 576

Finished the Challenge? Let Us Know!

2010-03-18T07:50:00.001-07:00

Because some of you are just rabid readers, I've decided to set up the Mr. Linky for wrap ups for those of you who have finished the challenge. Please link directly to your wrap up post (not the main page of your blog). For those of you without a blog, just leave a comment on this post letting us know you finished and how many books you read.

1. Jesus care
2. Anastasius Djaya
3. Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums
4. damnvixen
5. Reading With Tequila
6. Beverly Gotthardt
7. Becky (Page Turners)
8. Judith (Reader in the Wilderness)
9. Shonna (Canadian Bookworm)
10. Cafeshree
11. Tony (Tony's Reading List)
12. otterevilreads
13. Melissa (Avid Reader)
14. Lynne
15. Michelle (That's What She Read)

16. pinuccia in Turkey
17. Jules - (Jules' Book Reviews)
18. The Feminist Texican [Reads]
19. Cat(Tell Me A Story)
20. Pam (100 Books. 100 Journeys)
21. Zoe (In The Next Room)
22. Melissa
23. Alyce (At Home With Books)
24. Stepford Mum
25. Cutestlilbookworm
26. Amanda R.
27. Violette
28. Alysha DeShaé -- Wrap-Up
29. Kati
30. Elena

31. Nan's Corner of the Web
32. Abigail [no book blog :(]
33. Kaye @ Pudgy Penguin Perusals
34. Rahdragonfly
35. Brittanie (A Book Lover)
36. Kim (Reflections of a Book Addict)
37. Melwyk (Indextrious Reader)
38. Sarah (A Rat in the Book Pile)
39. Christina (Ardent Reader)
40. Julie (Reading Without Restraint)
41. Margaret @ Creative Madness Mama
42. Shonna (Canadian Bookworm)
43. Alicia (Fall of Giants, 985)
44. Violette - Mystery Bookshelf

Announcement: New Page on Blog

2010-02-20T15:04:00.000-08:00

I hope you are all having fun reading Chunksters...some of you have already finished and linked me to your reviews (thank you!). So, I wanted to let you all know I have started a new page on the blog where you can find Suggestions for Chunky Books...organized by page number with links to reviews (when they are available). Simply look just below the header and you will see the tab to find the page.

I hope you will find this a useful resource.

I will keep adding to this page as we go forward.

REMINDER: If you are posting a link on Mr. Linky for reviews, you MUST provide a perma-link directly to your REVIEW of the book. Do NOT give me links to the main page of your blog, your current reading list or anything else. Reviews only, please!!! I will be deleting any links which do not adhere to this policy!

2010 Challenge - Link Your Reviews...

2010-01-06T08:36:00.000-08:00

**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 DeShaé)
193. Three Dan Brown Books -- 1417 total pages (Alysha DeShaé)
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)

Welcome To the Challenge: 2010

2009-12-09T15:36:00.000-08:00

February 1, 2010 - January 31, 2011

Many thanks to Dana who has hosted this challenge for the past couple of years and has generously handed over the reins to me in 2010. I am keeping most of Dana's rules and definitions...Why? Because why fix something that isn't broken?!??!

Definition of a Chunkster:

A chunkster is 450 pages or more of ADULT literature (fiction or nonfiction) ... A chunkster should be a challenge.
If you read large type books your book will need to be 525 pages or more ... The average large type book is 10-15% longer or more so I think that was a fair estimate.

The Rules:

No Audio books in the chunkster. It just doesn't seem right. Words on paper for this one folks.
No e-Books allowed - we are reading traditional, fat books for this challenge.
Short Stories and Essay collections will not be counted.
Books may crossover with other challenges
Anyone may join. If you don't have a blog, just leave me a comment on this post with your progress (and to let me know you are playing)
You don't need to list your books ahead of time.
Once you pick a level, that's it...you're committed to that level!

You must pick a level of participation (thanks again to Dana for the humor in these categories!):

The Chubby Chunkster - this option is for the reader who has a couple of large tomes on their TBR list, but really doesn't want to commit to much more than that. 3 books is all you need to finish this challenge.
Do These Books Make my Butt Look Big? - this option is for the slightly heavier reader who wants to commit to 4 Chunksters over the next twelve months.
Mor-book-ly Obese - This is for the truly out of control chunkster. For this level of challenge you must commit to 6 or more chunksters OR three tomes of 750 pages or more. You know you want to.....go on and give in to your cravings.

Some Other Questions you Might Have:

To review or not to review, that is the quesion...Reviews are not mandatory, but they are strongly encouraged. I will be putting up a Mr. Linky at the beginning of the challenge for links to your reviews. I will also be posting a Mr. Linky for wrap up posts at the end of the challenge.
Will there be prizes? Perhaps. I am still thinking on this...but I may consider some bookish giveaways as the challenge progresses! If I were you, I would subscribe to this blog just in case I announce something important.
Is there anything else we need to know? Um, not that I can think of right now. But, lately I have been into being flexible. And I may decide to add some fun stuff to this blog, or even have a guest poster or two. Check back in occasionally (or subscribe to the feed) just in case!

To sign up, please use Mr. Linky below by linking DIRECTLY to your post about the challenge (please, please - do NOT link to your main blog page!!). If you do not have a blog, just enter your name in the name part of Mr. Linky and hit enter (also leave me a comment telling me which level of participation you will be doing).

1. wendy Booger Bottom Books
2. Booklover Book Reviews
3. Theresa
4. Paige
5. Kris
6. Rose City Reader
7. Carin (Caroline Bookbinder)
8. Jo
9. Chloe Connelly
10. Bea (How Novel!)
11. Caitlin (chaotic compendiums)
12. Sarah from Sarah's Books
13. otterevilreads
14. Brittanie (A Book Lover)
15. Book Snob Wannabe
16. The Inkwell
17. Chèli
18. eve
19. Honey (Coffeespoons)
20. Patti (Reading Distractions)
21. Shonna
22. MJ @ Creative Madness
23. Whitney {She is too fond of books}
24. Miss Moppet
25. Melissa
26. schatzi @ the stacks my destination
27. Cassandra - Adventist Homemaker
28. Mlle
29. Bcteagirl (Fabulous Canadian Freebies)
30. Kisha
31. Between the Covers
32. A Reader's Respite

33. Laura
34. Laurre
35. Nique (Nique's Life)
36. Kati Gormley
37. Pam (SocrMom78)
38. Manasa
39. Jeff
40. Amanda (Life in a Suitcase)
41. Jenny
42. Darlene
43. Kymmie
44. Megan
45. Boof (The Book Whisperer)
46. Allie-A Literary Odyssey
47. Manasa
48. Elena (roots of mountains)
49. Tracey (A Book Sanctuary)
50. Tweezle@Just One More Paragraph
51. Rachel (Beyond Words Book Club)
52. Eva (A Striped Armchair)
53. Dominique (Coffee Stained Pages)
54. Dreadful Penny
55. Becky (Page Turners)
56. Susie (All Things Royal)
57. Pam (iwriteinbooks)
58. Matt (Matt's Book Blog)
59. pinuccia
60. Juanita (Life at Home)
61. The Morland Dynasty: The Emperor
62. Kristen (BookNAround)
63. Melissa (Avid Reader)
64. Kinna Reads

65. the little reader
66. The Feminist Texican [Reads]
67. Jo's Bookshelf (Johanna)
68. Carolina
69. Julie (Reading Without Restraint!)
70. larissabookgirl
71. kdreader
72. Sumthinblue
73. damnvixen
74. Funandfearless
75. Dead White Guys
76. Carolyn (A Few of My Favourite Books)
77. Stepford Mum
78. Moony
79. Jenn @ Once Upon a Time...
80. Judith (Reader in the Wilderness)
81. Joy Renee @ Joystory
82. iusepseudonyms
83. iusepseudonyms
84. Zoe
85. Tony's Reading List
86. Notorious Spinks Talks
87. Donna
88. Meg (BeNonsensical)
89. Bibliophile (Reading in Reykjavik)
90. Alysha DeShaé
91. Julie (Reading Without Restraint)
92. Elizabeth (Beyond the Brush)
93. Orly (My Wuthering Heights)
94. Abigail
95. Martha G