She Treads Softly: The Chunkster Challenge

Monday, January 5, 2009

The Chunkster Challenge

The Chunkster Challenge is up!
There is nothing better than a big book!
I'm adding books to my TBR challenge list for the To Big To Ignore Anymore challenge, which requires any number of books over 450 pages but they must be on my TBR list.

I know I will complete the Mor-book-ly Obese challenge, which requires 6 or more chunksters OR three tomes of 750 pages or more.

I've added a couple books to my TBR alternate list and noted the page numbers of those that will fulfill the Chunkster Challenge requirements.

The books I am planning to read from my TBR list are:
Echo Maker - Powers,TBR, chunkster, 451 pages

Cloudsplitter - Banks, chunkster, 758 pages

Gold Bug Variations - Powers, chunkster, 639 pages

History - Morante, chunkster, 734 pages

The Last Ship - Brinkley, chunkster, 616 pages

A HeartBreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Eggers, chunkster, 437+48 pages

I'm sure I will read more than 6 chunkster's this year.

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John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.