
November 1, 2009 - April 30, 2010
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
4 of 6 done
Rainbow Connection Reading

Single Rainbow (reading 7 books) by either Author (first or last name) or Title starting with R, O, Y, G, B, I and V (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet) books. This challenge is from January 1- June 30, 2010.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon DONE O
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin DONE R
Completed: ROYG, 4 of 7

Create – and read! – a list of books that you’ve always heard others rave about, and thought you should read yourself… but always put off reading “until later”. Your list has to have at least 3 books on it. There are no limitations on genre. And no time limit.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
3 of 3 DONE!
TBR *Lite* 2010

TBR= books that have been on your “To Be Read” list for 6 months or longer, but you haven’t gotten around to.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2 of 6

A chunkster is 450 pages or more of ADULT literature.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2 of 4
Read’n'Review

Review each book you read in 2010.
Been keeping up this year! So I stay on track with this Challenge.
4 comments:
Are you going to add more books to your Raved About Reads Challenge list?
It's funny because I was talking to some friends about what a "chunkster" book was. I've noticed most people think it's around 450-500 pages. I always thought a "chunkster" was 700+ pages. What do you think a constitutes a "chunkster"?
haha, well if I really went off of what I think is a chunkster, I couldn't have counted The Help, but according to the rules for this challenge it does count - by 1 page!! If you click through, you'll see they also have a variant on the challenge that is for 750+ page books. Based on last year, I think I'll finish it with relative ease but this first year doing challenges, I didn't want to be overly ambitious! I know that by the end of the year I'll have a ton more books on my Raved Reads list. For instance, my book club just picked The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for April which I've had at least a dozen people recommend. But it's lovely to have it not having over my head!
My copy of The Help only has 444 pages you cheater, cheater, lemon eater. ;-) I am doing fairly well on my challenges so far too (and I have no self-restraint, signing up for everything plus the kitchen sink). I only have one Shelf Discovery book and one Rainbow Connection book left so I'm doing fine on them. I have The Beth Kephart reading challenge too and I'm not doing so well on that one. Guess what I'll be focusing on soon?!
well I supect I'll actually do more than 3 Chunksters, so maybe I will drop The Help off. It felt a bit like a cheat anyway since it came in at exactly 451.
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