Forty-fourth challenge finish of the year.
I knew exactly which book I wanted to read for this prompt, as it technically has zero letters in the title, just numbers. :) This one has been on my Kindle since 2013...11/22/13 to be precise. They must have offered it at a special price on the fiftieth anniversary of JFK's assassination (I paid $2.95).
I've read a lot of long books over the years: all of Jean Auel's Earth's Children series books, all of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series books, AND all five of the Kingsbridge series books by Ken Follett, four of which were over 900 pages each (and one of those I've read three times). But I don't think I've ever read as many long books in a single year as I have this year! This one came in at 877 pages, and I loved every one of them!
You may ask if I loved it so much, why did I only give it four stars? Well, because I only give five star ratings to books that I love so much I want to read them again sometime in the future. The majority of the books I've read this year I have rated four stars. That kind of amazes me, usually I have more clunkers mixed in.
(Wouldn't you know that as I was refreshing my memory as to how many books were in Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series and their lengths, I see that he has a new book coming out in September of this year which will be 704 pages, and is a novel about the building of Stonehenge...right up my alley! So there may be another fairly long one in my reading for the year.)
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