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Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

Have you always wanted to tackle War & Peace, Les Miserables or any of the other giant books that double as paperweights, but the page counts intimidate you? Join us for the 5th annual #ChunksterChallenge! It‘s structured with levels to help build up your stamina to take down those super-sized tomes and claim the bragging rights. Because the secret to completing the Colossal Chunkster is simple math – one page at a time!

#ChunksterChallenge2025

Amiable @ginakbutler I changed the names of the categories this year -- because who doesn't want to take down a COLOSSAL CHUNKSTER? 😃 3w

Amiable In 2025, I plan to complete at least this chunkster:

Anna Karenina

youneverarrived I‘ve been telling myself I‘ll read this for a few years but never have - maybe this will give me the incentive to read it 💕

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Amiable @youneverarrived I really liked that one, actually! It‘s very readable. And if I recall correctly, it qualifies as a Colossal Chunkster! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 3w

Deblovestoread Going to try to read Les Mis this year with @TheBookHippie 🤞🏼 3w

Deblovestoread And your post reminded me I did finish a chunkster this year. Will post soon. 3w

Mollyanna One of my favorite challenges (although I didn‘t do so well this past year, a couple bitsys)! I‘ll have to look at my chunksters and decide. 3w

TheSpineView I was going to read War and Peace last year. However, I kept putting it off and before I knew it the year was over. Maybe 2025 will be THE year. 3w

TheBookHippie I love chunksters …shhhhh don‘t tell it upsets the peeps 🤣 3w

Amiable @Mollyanna I hear you. I had 10 this year that would count: 2 Chunksters, a couple of Petites and a few Bitsys. I missed the big-boy level —just didn‘t have the attention span. 3w

JenReadsAlot I skipped this year so will be back in 2025!! 3w

Amiable @TheSpineView Start on Jan. 1 with a chapter a day! It‘s a lot more manageable if you break it down into tiny bites. 3w

Amiable @JenReadsAlot Yay!! Do you have a specific one in mind? 3w

Amiable @TheBookHippie Ha ha, right? There‘s nothing as satisfying as taking down one of the giants, though! 😀 3w

JenReadsAlot Nope 😂 I stil have a couple days! 3w

quietlycuriouskate I have a goodly stack (more of a pillar, really) to choose from. 😊 3w

Amiable @quietlycuriouskate Nice! We‘ll whittle down that pillar to a tall post. 😀 3w

Liz_M @LitsyEvents 3w

dabbe Yay for this! I know I have 3 for this year: TOMBLAND for #ShardlakeSeriesBR, LES MIS, which @TheBookHippie is going to get me through (after already trying 3 times in the past), and JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL--just because. Hope I can do it! 🤩 3w

Amiable @dabbe Les Mis was a struggle for me, too—thank goodness I‘m stubborn! I also am thinking about starting Robert Caro‘s mammoth works about LBJ. Although he‘s 89 and still writing the last one and I‘ll be really bummed if the series doesn‘t get completed. 😬

The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

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GinaKButler @Amiable I love this!! @Kelly326 and I are deciding on our Q2-4 picks, but we‘re starting the year with

Napoleon: A Life

Laughterhp I totally failed at this in 2024, bring it on 2025! 3w

Amiable @GinaKButler I think I have that book on my e-reader -- looking forward to hearing your and @kelly326 's thoughts on it! 3w

Amiable @Laughterhp No worries-- “War & Peace“ will always be there. Waiting. Patiently. While staring at you in an inscrutable Russian way. 😀 3w

Cuilin Reading Les Mis and some Dickens 🩵 2w

daena I am thinking of finally jumping in and reading a qualifying chunkster

The Luminaries

Amiable @daena Oh, nice! That one is still in my pile. Would love to hear your thoughts on it ! 2w

Amiable @Cuilin 😍 I really should tackle “Bleak House” at some point. 2w

daena Bleak House is also on my list for this challenge @Cuilin @Amiable 2w

Sace I‘m going to try to read more chunksters this year! 2w

Amiable @Sace Hooray! 🎉 🥳 2w

AnnCrystal 📚I'm joining on🥳👍💝. 2w

Amiable @AnnCrystal Yay!! 🎉🥳 2w

Read4life I‘m joining again! 💙💙💙 2w

Amiable @Read4life Yippee!! Welcome back! 2w

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MatchlessMarie

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

As we start making plans for 2025, check out this #AllergicToChunksters challenge @julieclair will be hosting next year. See her original post for the StoryGraph link if you‘re into that! 💚

julieclair Belated thanks for the share! I somehow missed seeing it. 💙 2w

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TheAromaofBooks

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

I am not a big reader of chunksters but I did complete a few for #ChunksterChallenge2023 !! Most are consider Almost a Chunkster, but Middlemarch qualified as a legit Chunkster, and The Pickwick Papers was awfully close!! 😂 I am also on page 860/1024 in Don Quixote, so that Super Chunkster will be checked off in early 2024!! Thanks for hosting @Amiable !!!!

julieclair In my opinion, anything over 500 pages is a chunkster. 🤣🤪 Great job on reading all of these! 13mo

GinaKButler Awesome job!! How was The Pickwick Papers? 13mo

Amiable FABULOUS JOB! Good on you! 🎉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 13mo

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Megabooks Yay!! 13mo

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 13mo

TheAromaofBooks @GinaKButler - I loved it!! It was hard to get into at first, but once I got the characters sorted, I just thoroughly enjoyed Dickens's humor and some of the ridiculous situations. 13mo

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Amiable

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! It's the return of the #Chunksterchallenge! So many Littens took down a variety of chunksters in 2023 -- let's do it again in 2024! The goal of this challenge is to tackle the giant books that intimidate us or that we put off reading because we are focused on that year-end book total instead. It's time to get them off the TBR!

Remember: “The journey through a thousand pages begins on page 1.“ 😃
#ChunksterChallenge2024

Cuilin, TheBookHippie, GinaKButler, dabbe, Kelly326, LitsyEvents

Balibee146 I'm up for this in 2024....👍 13mo

Ruthiella I‘m in! Brothers Karamazov, here we come! 😃 13mo

Larkken Haha, maybe I can pick back up some slumbering chunksters and give this another go🫣 13mo

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Amiable @Balibee146 @Ruthiella Hooray! 13mo

Amiable @Larkken You can do it! 13mo

AmyG I still need to finish last years chunkster! 🤣 13mo

Amiable @AmyG One page at a time until the end! 😃 Which one were/are you reading? (edited) 13mo

dabbe I like big books and I cannot lie ... 🤩 13mo

Deblovestoread 2024 is the year of reading from my shelves including the chunksters. 13mo

TheBookHippie I‘ve got so many 😅😂 13mo

GinaKButler So excited! This is our lineup: Q1: Peter The Great; Q2: David Copperfield; Q3: The Source; Q4: Vanity Fair 🎉 13mo

quietlycuriouskate Count me in! I have many to choose from, but first I need to finish this excellent one (about 200 pages to go).

The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller

13mo

WorldsOkayestStepMom I managed to read 5 books that were 500+ pages this year! I'm proud of myself! 13mo

Amiable @WorldsOkayestStepMom Yay! Fabulous job! It feels so good when you finish a chunkster, doesn't it? 13mo

Amiable @GinaKButler Ooh, depending on how things are going by Q4, I might hop on board with “Vanity Fair.“ I've been wanting to revisit that one for decades, ever since I read and didn't enjoy/understand in high school! 13mo

Amiable @quietlycuriouskate Excellent! 13mo

Cuilin Yay!! Still deciding but to start definitely reading

The Brothers Karamazov

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GinaKButler @Amiable we would love to have you join!! ❤️ 13mo

Meshell1313 Yes! I loved it this year! Count me in again! 13mo

Mollyanna I‘m in again. I‘ll start with

David Copperfield

13mo

Amiable @Meshell1313 @Mollyanna Hooray! 13mo

Morr_Books I'm in too! I'm starting with the chunkster

Middlemarch

13mo

JenReadsAlot I'm in! Going with

Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I

13mo

fredthemoose @JenReadsAlot Yay!! 13mo

fredthemoose I‘d love to join! I‘m working on getting through a biography of each US President and a lot of those are really chunky. 13mo

JenReadsAlot @fredthemoose oh I'm glad you saw this I forgot to tag you!! 13mo

mom2bugnbee Okay, I'm really going to do this this year! I never did finish The Count of Monte Cristo, so I want to go back to the beginning & read it this year! 13mo

PuddleJumper I'm up for this! I've got a few thick books I've been avoiding 13mo

Amiable @JenReadsAlot Oh, I was thinking about this one, too! 13mo

Amiable @fredthemoose I am also doing a presidential bio challenge! Well, I‘ve been slowly and casually doing it for years as the mood hits me, that is. I may do FDR or LBJ this time. (edited) 13mo

Amiable @mom2bugnbee You can do it ! 👍🏼👍🏼 13mo

Amiable @PuddleJumper @Morr_Books Excellent! Welcome aboard! (edited) 13mo

fredthemoose @Amiable oh, great! If you think about it, please let me know if any you liked! 13mo

Amiable @fredthemoose Are you reading the bios in order? I‘ve been hopping around as the mood strikes. Which is really not the best way to get the full picture of the history of the presidency, I fully admit. 😬 13mo

fredthemoose @Amiable I mostly bounce around, although I did the first 8 or so in order a couple of years ago and filled in what I was missing from Truman through the first Bush this year. Now I need to fill in between around the Civil War and WWII. 😬 13mo

Amiable @fredthemoose I just downloaded this one for FDR if you haven‘t done him yet:

FDR

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Lcsmcat I haven‘t decided yet (I know - better hurry!) but I‘m in. 13mo

Amiable @Lcsmcat No rush —you have a whole year to read it! 😀 13mo

Lcsmcat @Amiable Well I know it won‘t be anything by Samuel Richardson. 😂 13mo

Amiable @Lcsmcat Is there such a thing as PCPTSD— “Post-Clarissa Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”? 😄 13mo

Lcsmcat @Amiable I don‘t know, but if there is, we have it. 😂 13mo

Bookwormjillk @fredthemoose the new James A Garfield bio was pretty good.

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

13mo

Bookwormjillk Count me in for 2024! Last year I made a list and read from that, but I think this year I‘ll track my chunksters and see how they fall out naturally. 13mo

Amiable @Bookwormjillk Ooh, I read a bio of Garfield a while back —but this one looks really good. I was impressed by him and thought it was a shame that he didn‘t live long enough to complete his term. I think he would have done good things. 13mo

Amiable @Bookwormjillk That‘s what I‘m going to do, too. After I finish my “official” chunkster, I‘ll be seeing what piques my fancy. 13mo

Bookwormjillk @Amiable me too. At one point I determined that if I could go back in time and change history I would have let him live. 13mo

Smarkies I am planning to do the Wolf Hall trilogy this year. Wish me luck! 13mo

Amiable @Smarkies Oh, it‘s so good! Enjoy! 13mo

rubyslippersreads @Smarkies What a great choice! I‘ve only read the first book, but would love to tackle the trilogy one day. 13mo

Andrew65 I need to target the Chunksters this year so am joining this! I‘ll be starting off with the last book in the Kingsbridge Series by Ken Follett. This is a super Chunkster at 1024 pages. 13mo

Amiable @Andrew65 Fabulous! Welcome to the chunkster crew! 13mo

Andrew65 @Amiable Thanks 😍 13mo

Bluebird I‘ll join this year! I‘ve got several chunksters on my radar for 2024. Currently reading

The Evening and the Morning

13mo

Amiable @Bluebird Hooray! More chunkster love! 😍 13mo

Airykah13 I don‘t know how many chunksters I will get in this year, but I‘m in for the challenge 12mo

Amiable @Airykah13 Excellent! Any amount of chunksters is a worthy goal. Just tackling a giant book is an accomplishment by itself. 🙂 12mo

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GinaKButler

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

Starting to work on my year-end wrap-up!

I read 4 chunks this year…1 had over 700 pages, 1 had over 800 pages (but felt like a lot more) and 2 had over 1,000 pages!

Q1: Alexander Hamilton
Q2: Les Miserables
Q3: Hawaii
Q4: The Woman in White

Thank you so much to Amy for hosting the #chunksterchallenge2023 📚

I just finished ordering our 2024 picks!

@Amiable @Kelly326

Amiable Fabulous job! 13mo

emz711 Woman in white 👍👍 13mo

Smarkies Wow! Well done on this achievement! 13mo

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BarbaraJean

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

Taking stock of my #ChunksterChallenge2023 reading at this mid-year point! I planned to read 4 chunksters, one for each category. So far, I‘ve read 6! Four for the challenge, then 2 more I realized later were 500+ pages. I‘m planning 3 more: #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead for July/Aug fits the “Almost” category, and I‘ll count #Clarissa as an “Ultimate” chunkster. And the completionist in me wants to read something for the final “Chunkster” category!

Amiable

JamieArc I‘m not sure if it fits, but in August, there‘s a buddy read for Vanity Fair, which is certainly a chunkster. We read one chapter per day, hosted by @BarkingMadRead with on point hashtags to keep us going 😊 2y

BarbaraJean @JamieArc So tempting!! I added Count of Monte Cristo and Once and Future King to my list because of buddy reads 😊 I‘ll have to see how my August reading list shapes up, with other reading commitments! 2y

Amiable Yay for chunksters! And I think we‘ll all deserve something extraordinary when we finish “Clarissa” — that‘s like the Ultimate Chunkster SuperCharged. 😀 2y

BarbaraJean @Amiable 😂 Yes, Clarissa deserves its own special award; for lots of reasons, not only length!! 2y

Lcsmcat @Amiable I think everyone who finishes Clarissa deserves to treat themselves to a massage or whatever self-care treat they prefer! It‘s a bit brutal. 2y

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Sarahreadstoomuch

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

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This was a cute kids graphic novel centering on one kid‘s quest to find a sport he is good at in order to make his parents happy. His invisible friend Chunky is his sidekick/mascot and of course the ending is that you need to find what makes you happy, not anyone else. I liked that this showed a bit of the parents POV: worried for his health, job lay offs and financial troubles etc)

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ReadingOver50

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

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Absolutely adorable. I was left with a smile on my face.

At the suggestion of his parents, Hudi is trying to find a sports activity he likes. We watch him try several until he finds his true love, theater. I love Hudi‘s optimistic attitude. It was great seeing him throw himself into everything with such enthusiasm.

Elementary/middle school reading level.

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LiteraryinPA

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

so-so

Meh. Didn‘t really work for me.

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GinaKButler

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

I‘m late posting this, but these are the 4 chunksters I‘m planning on buddy-reading with @Kelly326 for the #chunksterchallenge2022 We‘re looking forward to checking these off the list! ✔️

@Amiable @CoverToCoverGirl

Amiable That‘s a chunky year, for sure! 😀 3y

CoverToCoverGirl Impressive! That‘s a lot of pages. 3y

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Bookgoil

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

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For #December #12in2021 all four of my picks ended up being graphic novels - that‘s most of what I read and wow these stood out! #12thbookof2021

Cheer up - I‘m not one for these normally but with the transgender rep and body positive messages I loved it so much.
I am Not Starfire made me laugh and has the best bff in it ever.
Chunky was so funny and had so much more packed in, a must read!
My Body in Pieces wrecked me emotionally.

@Andrew65

Andrew65 Great 👏👏👏 3y

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everlocalwest

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

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Oh man, Chunky and Hudi are the best. Adorable middle grade graphic memoir about finding and being yourself.

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rachelsbrittain

Chunky | Yehudi Mercado

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What a freaking adorable graphic memoir with a humorous imaginary mascot friend twist. As a fat kid with only one lung and no coordination, Yehudi struggles to find a sport to compete in, almost losing himself in the process. Ultimately about being true to yourself no matter who that is. And just adorably illustrated and narrated with sports commentator-like addresses to the audience and all.

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