I don’t read a ton of book blogs and I didn’t see this challenge on a book blog. I saw it on the blog that belongs to someone who I’ve read for so many years now I can’t even begin to keep track. I’m going to link to her blog instead of the Chunkster Challenge Blog because it only seems fitting. Besides I love her blog, always have.
Since I read about this challenge I got excited. I’m going to do the “The Chubby Chunkster†option. I’m opting for this option because I’m unclear on my future student status and can’t comit to more if I do in fact enroll for my Masters degree. *hint* *hint*
There are 4 options. I chose this one.
*The Chubby Chunkster - this option is for the reader who has a large tome or two to read, but really doesn’t want to commit to more than that. 2 books is all you need to finish this challenge.
I really wish someone would host a reading challenge appropriately titled, “That big fucking book is haunting me and I need to get off my ass and read it!â€Â Maybe I will next year.
The books I am considering at this time are
Elliot Perlman’s Seven Types of Ambiguity  672 pages
Haruki Murakami’s “The Wind Up Bird Chronicleâ€Â 624 pages
Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy 1488 pages
Now let me say this right now. I did not formally sign up. That stuff is always silly to me. However, if I choose the latter 1488 page novel I am not reading any other big ass books that I’ve thought about. I mean seriously. Where’s the option to “Read until your eye’s fall out� I also will insert this disclaimer right now.  Disclaimer: I will attempt to read some substantially bigger books. If that’s two..so be it…I meet my personal challenge. If I read that “big ass honking ass wiping for years there’s so many pages within it†Vikram Seth book, then all other bets are off and I still won this damn challenge just by reading one book since it’s page count is equal to 2 books. Um yah.
Why doesn’t someone just have a freaking log of pages read challenge? There is a 100+ bookschallenge if anyone’s interested. Or how about “Read a lot of shishnit this year just because reading is fucking cool!â€Â That’s my advice.
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Hooray! I’m glad you got in on the challenge. It really is a personal challenge. The more I think about it the more I think that I’m not really challenging myself. Yes, I want to read the three books I listed but there is definitely one book that is haunting me like crazy. I’ve owned Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet since it was published in 2000. I obsessed over the book before it was even published, then I got it and didn’t read it! So yeah, that needs to be my challenge. It doesn’t have the greatest reviews, but I’m determined.
Have you read Pillars of the Earth (976 pages) or World Without End (1014 pages)? They’re both good, although so similar I’m surprised the author wrote the second. Have fun with the challenge!