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Sunday, January 06, 2008

The Chunkster Challenge


I know. I said no more challenges for me since I failed at all of them last year.

I changed my mind.

I'm going to do the Chunkster Challenge. I know, you're thinking that I couldn't even finish the Newbery Challenge, how am I gonna do THIS? But the thing is, that list I posted yesterday has a few Chunksters on it. And I just got the latest Kim Harrison from Paperbackswap, and while I haven't actually LOOKED, it's GOT to be more than 450 pages. So this should be easy. Right? I will NOT sign up for anything else til I've completed this one, Scout's honor.

Here's the rules:
  • To qualify the book must be 450 pps regular type OR 750 pps large text.
  • You must read FOUR chunksters (one each quarter), you OBVIOUSLY may read more
  • The Challenge will run Jan 7th, 2008 - Dec 20th, 2008. BUT any chunkster started after Jan 1 qualifies.
  • OH THERE WILL BE PRIZES - one a quarter. Prizes to be determined later. Think small and fun, not big and chunky.
  • Sharing reviews mandatory, format still to be determined.
  • There is a sign-up deadline of March 1st, so tell your friends and neighbors but only until then.
  • You don't have to make a set list--or you can and you can change it later--no big deal
  • A large volume of compiled work (such as LOTR in one volume) TOTALLY COUNTS
See? Totally doable. I'm gonna make my list as I go, so no list of books to see here. The first one will be The Time Traveler's Wife though, as I'm halfway done now.

6 comments:

  1. I'm so glad you are joining in! One good thing about not making a list ahead of time is that you can change your mind and it won't matter. :-) Good luck with the challenge!

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  2. Glad you are playing. I have a Kim Harrison book on my chunkster list too.

    Good luck!

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  3. Can't wait to read your thoughts on Time Traveler's Wife!

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  4. How do I start getting involved in challenges? I'm soo up for this one.

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  5. For challenges I would start at http://novelchallenges.blogspot.com. You can find a list of what's going on there, then go to the individual blogs to sign up.

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