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#chunksterChallenge2025
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Leftcoastzen
Voyager | Diana Gabaldon
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#Sharreadathon #chunksterChallenge2025 #chunkster #SeriesLove2025 Started this one today. I‘m kind of ahead of myself because I watched most of the TV series!🤭📺 I remember Sharon‘s insightful posts,I love that this group remembers our Littens ! It is a generous community. ❤️

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for participating ❤️❤️ 3h
Leftcoastzen You are welcome! Thanks for hosting! 3h
dabbe #jamieandclaire 🩶🖤🩶 3h
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Butterfinger
Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘ve heard this one is really good! 11h
Amiable Loved this one! No surprise—I‘ve loved all of Towles‘ books. 😍 10h
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Butterfinger
The Valley of Horses | Jean M. Auel
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Pickpick

I remember as a child and seeing The Earth's Children everywhere. I knew just by looking at the covers that they were going to be great reads. I just forgot about them. Thank goodness they are in my universe again. In fact, I can't wait to finish reading the series just to start again. This one, in particular, is the best at survival in the wild - the Ice Age wild.
#ChunksterChallenge2025 #bitsychunkster @Amiable
#LitsyAtoZ @Texreader

Amiable My goodness, I remember these books! 3d
Pogue I read these way too young. 3d
bookaholic1 Loved the whole series..the third book I believe dragged some 2d
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wanderinglynn
Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes
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Mehso-so

Don Quixote is #OffMyShelf for the chunkster prompt 🎉 I pushed through to finished the last 200 pages today.

While I appreciate this novel's historical literary significance, I found I lost steam with the continuous monotony of the ludicrous conduct.

It‘s my first #chunksterchallenge2025 book 🎉

TheBookHippie Whew!!! 3d
Suet624 Hey, you tried. 😊 3d
Amiable It‘s DONE!! Congratulations! 3d
Daisey Congrats! I felt similarly about this one. 3d
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Born.A.Reader
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Beginning this #chunkster tonight. I hope to read a chapter or two each day to finish it by year's end. 🤞

TheSpineView This is on my list for this year 1w
Amiable This qualifies as a “Colossal Chunkster” for #ChunksterChallenge2025! 4h
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TheSpineView
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Pickpick

Another fun fluff read. I liked the characters and the touch of humor in a few scenes that made the book so much fun. I also liked the bit of drama and thought it worked well in this one. I ploughed through this book quickly and will definitely read the next book in this series. 4 ⭐

# SeriesLove2025 @Andrew65 #LitsyLoveReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4Life #Read2025 @DieAReader #LitsyAtoZ @TexReader #LetterT (title) #LetterS (author)

Andrew65 Sometimes you need fluff. Well done 📚🎉👏 1w
Read4life This is on my TBR!! 1w
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 1w
julieclair I like the idea of a fluffy chunkster! 😃 3d
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tpixie
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My book finally came in the mail! Starting this #chunkster for #READLESMIS I‘ve always wanted to read this, and there‘s no better way than with a #buddyread with fellow Littens! Hopefully I will catch up soon!
I‘m loving Monsignor Bienvenue. He is giving, kind, and insightful.

#chunksterchallenge2025 #ColossialChunkster
@aimiable
#AllergicToChunksters
 @julieclair

#ReadLesMis
@TheBookHippie

julieclair Hooray! 🎉 2w
tpixie @julieclair yes!! And most people canceled at work today and so I brought my book!! Maybe if I‘m caught up enough I can get some reading in!! 💙🤍❤️🇫🇷 2w
TheBookHippie Yay!!!!!!! I love him as well! One of my favorite characters. 2w
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tpixie @TheBookHippie Yes, I think he will continue to be one of my favorites, even though I understand he‘s not in the whole book… 2w
dabbe Yay! Glad we're all in this together! #readlesmis 🖤🇫🇷🩶 2w
tpixie @dabbe yes! 👏🏻 2w
julieclair Well, I've succumbed and have joined the Les Mis madness! My book arrives on Friday. 🇫🇷 2w
tpixie @julieclair yay!!! Mine just arrived yesterday. 2w
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wanderinglynn
Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes
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The first chunkster for the #ChunksterChallenge2025 that I‘m tackling is Don Quixote. The paperback edition I‘m reading has 940 pages. I failed to read it last year, so I added it to my #2025OffMyShelf reading challenge. I started it today & read 103 pages.

If/when I finish this one, I plan to tackle the bitsy chunkster The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle next.

Thanks @Amiable for hosting!

Amiable Excellent! “Don Quixote” is still on my list of chunksters to be tackled. 2w
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PuddleJumper
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I am divided by this book. All the way through I had to keep reminding myself this was a children's book because it is badly researched, weirdly paced, and very repetitive.

Things happen to the characters, they don't make things happen. The characters themselves were rather bland and there was no connection between them.

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PuddleJumper 1. It was difficult to get into because the characters either don't know who they are or are keeping secrets even during their POV chapters.

It really did not need to be as long as it was! So much could have been cut out and it wouldn't have impacted the plot.

I'm coming late to this series so hopefully things improve in later books/series but the writing of women was questionable
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PuddleJumper 2. Now, onto the fun stuff. I'm going to preface this by saying, classicists by nature are pedantic assholes.

First thing, Riordan's representation of the Greek gods is Romanised. He bases many aspects of their personality and history on Latin sources rather than available Greek sources.

This makes things very messy when introducing the Roman facet of the Greek gods. He should have just made them a separate pantheon.
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PuddleJumper 3. He says the Roman gods are harsher because of the Roman empire. The Athenians would like to fight you about their lack of empire in this universe.

The Greek city states were constantly warring with each other during the Archaic and Classical period. They weren't less ‘warlike‘.
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PuddleJumper 4. Arguably, Rome sustained such a large empire for so long because they were amazing administrators. No one cares about that aspect of their godhood. Let me see Mars, arbiter of the war fund. 2w
PuddleJumper 5. Another gripe of mine is the representation of Aphrodite and her children. There's a denigration of femininity and this weird idea that beauty and femininity are the same thing. Aphrodite‘s children are portrayed as weak because they are vain and interested in stereotypically feminine things.

Thanks, I hate it.
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PuddleJumper 6. When Piper is claimed by Aphrodite, she is transformed so that she is wearing a dress that makes her uncomfortable, make-up and better hair. What a shallow idea of beauty.

Piper's strengths are always framed as ‘for a kid of Aphrodite.‘ If you want your interpretation of Aphrodite to be vain and jealous then she should be terrorising these kids for their disrespect. Piper is amazing because she is her kid and not in spite of it.
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Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I‘ve read these and I liked his Trials of Apollo series more. The books were shorter, for one, and a funny haiku started each chapter. (edited) 2w
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage My hands down favorite by him in the percy jackson world is 2w
TheAromaofBooks I had mixed feelings about this series as well. 2w
PuddleJumper @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I'm excited by the other series. They look more interesting 2w
PuddleJumper @TheAromaofBooks It definitely wasn't his best 2w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2w
julieclair Really well done review. 👍 I have been curious about the Percy Jackson series. I‘m guessing this is one you will definitely donate! 😂 (edited) 2w
PuddleJumper @julieclair The first series is better. Still aimed at children but I don't remember it being this boring. Oh yes, definitely donate! I'm hoping to get through 3 of his series and donate them all 2w
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