{"id":1937,"date":"2007-01-19T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/update-on-the-chunkster-challe.html"},"modified":"2007-01-19T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T22:50:00","slug":"update-on-the-chunkster-challe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/update-on-the-chunkster-challe.html","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Chunkster Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been reading one of the books in the challenge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Labyrinth-Kate-Mosse\/dp\/0399153446\/sr=1-1\/qid=1169264818\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-2802509-7884025?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">Labyrinth<\/a> and I discover it&#8217;s seems a little like a romance novel.  I thought it would be more of a suspense but it has some of the more seedier elements of romance writing.  I&#8217;m not sure I would recommend it but I&#8217;m only a hundred pages in (there are 508 pages) so I better reserve judgment.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve decided to add another book to the challenge, even though this might not seem like such a great idea given the fact that I haven&#8217;t made a much of a dent in my reading list but I noticed this book when I was at Borders and decided it looked interesting and since it was 619 pages, it certainly qualified as a chunkster \ud83d\ude42  It is Robert Liparulo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Comes-Horseman-Robert-Liparulo\/dp\/1595542299\/sr=8-1\/qid=1169264127\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-2802509-7884025?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">Comes a Horseman<\/a>. I don&#8217;t usually read Christian novels because the ones that I&#8217;ve read were poorly written and had bad theology but since it was endorsed by one of the authors I like to read, James Rollins, I thought I would give it a shot.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to try to finish both of these novels before I go back to school because I won&#8217;t have time to read novels after that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/chunkster+challenge\" rel=\"tag\">chunkster challenge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/books\" rel=\"tag\">books<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been reading one of the books in the challenge, Labyrinth and I discover it&#8217;s seems a little like a romance novel. I thought it would be more of a suspense but it has some of the more seedier elements of romance writing. 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