FINGER CRUSHERS - 2015

[Stephanie]

Meet your New Year's Resolution to work out by reading these gigantic tomes! They will definitely tone up your biceps (unless you use an e-reader...).

Read up to 5 books with 500 or more pages.

[Sam]

And my first one is down with Wool with a grand total of 563 pages :-)

[Stephanie]

Sam wrote: "And my first one is down with Wool with a grand total of 563 pages :-)"

I loved Wool! Are you going to read the next one, Shift? It was really good, too. In fact my hubby read Shift without knowing that Wool was the first one but the two are separate from each other enough to make this not a problem.

[Sam]

I probably will Stephanie, think my local library has it :-) Glad to hear it's worth it too!

[Connie]

Read The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

It has 506 pages but could have fit so many categories, it was hard to decide where to put it - historical fiction, foreign setting (finished that category), prize winner.

Hopefully I don't regret putting it here.

[Stephanie]

Connie wrote: "Read The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

It has 506 pages but could have fit so many categories, it was hard to decide where to put it - historical fiction, foreign set..."

If you decide later that you want to swap it to another category, let me know.

[Sam]

Got my second finger crusher with 1000 Years of Annoying the French totalling 685 pages!

[Melki]

Finished all 588 pages of Trojan Hearse: A Light Look at the Dark Side of the War on Terror.

[Connie]

My 2nd one in this category is A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. I read the paperback edition which was 834 pages. Even with the variety of characters, I was surprised at how quickly I got drawn in to the struggles.

[Stephanie]

Finally got one for this, weighing in at 576 pages:

Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin

[Sam]

And my third with The Eye of the World totalling 800 pages

[Melki]

Finished another heavy tome - the 561-page Leviathan Wakes. Well worth the time, effort and cramped fingers.

*Note to self - Kindle is probably the way to go for these big books.

[Stephanie]

Melki wrote: "Finished another heavy tome - the 561-page Leviathan Wakes. Well worth the time, effort and cramped fingers.

*Note to self - Kindle is probably the way to go for these big books."

Absolutely, which is why, after reading your glowing review, I ordered this as an ebook, got it on sale for around $5!

Woo-hoo!

[Melki]

Hope you like it, Stephanie. Otherwise, I'll feel really, really guilty.

[Stephanie]

Melki wrote: "Hope you like it, Stephanie. Otherwise, I'll feel really, really guilty."

If I don't like it, my hubby who LOVES space operas will enjoy it, so money well spent either way!

[Melki]

Whew! Color me relieved.

[Sam]

Got my fourth finger crusher with The Great Hunt at 705 pages :-)

[Sam]

Got my fifth and last finger crusher with The Simple Truth at 506 pages

[Rebecca]

Man, you guys are impressive. I'm doing well to finish books of under 200 pages just now. Though I have been finishing a lot of them.

[Melki]

I finished the most excellent Life After Life - 529 pages.

[Melki]

Rebecca wrote: "Man, you guys are impressive. I'm doing well to finish books of under 200 pages just now. Though I have been finishing a lot of them."

So many of the books I've been reading this year are just under the requirement - 475 - 492 pages. It's frustrating, but I shall persevere.

[Michael]

My first for this category: The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson. Excellent read and a great conclusion to Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy.

[Connie]

My third one in this category is The Iliad by Homer. It has been on my TBR shelf for several years and I am glad I finally read it. It is 614 pages.

[Rebecca]

New kitten-squisher (though since I read it on Kindle...). I didn't realize how long when I started, but GR lists the Kindle as 530 pages.
Roughing It

[Connie]

4th one done: A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin. At 969 pages it was one of the longest ones I've read in a while.

[Stephanie]

Hurray, I finally have another one! At 608 pages, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

[Melki]

I finished all 858 wonderful pages of Power In The Blood.

[Rebecca]

Not sure if it counts, since it was an audio book, but at least some of the print editions were over 500 pages:
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

[Stephanie]

Rebecca wrote: "Not sure if it counts, since it was an audio book, but at least some of the print editions were over 500 pages:
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption"

I'll take it... Finger crushers are hard to come by.

[Rebecca]

Thanks! It was a gripping read (or listen), though I felt a bit cheated at the end because he (and the narrative) went all religious on us.

[Melki]

Finally finished 605 pages of The Collected Stories . Whew! I think that is number five for me.

[Stephanie]

Melki wrote: "Finally finished 605 pages of The Collected Stories . Whew! I think that is number five for me."

Yes, that was number five, well done!!!

[Michael]

Second for this category: Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome

[Stephanie]

Finished all 592 pages of:

The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman

[Connie]

Last one in this category:A Storm of Swords
All 1177 pages of it.

[Michael]

May be my last of the year we will see:



Total pages: 1379