I have seen this on a couple of blogs now – and I wasn’t sure I would join in – mainly because I know I will be reading at least a couple of books from my classic club list before April. However this challenge gives me the chance to maybe read one of the ones I know I will keep putting off.
What is the spin?
1. By next Monday, Feb 18, list your choice of any twenty books you’ve left to read from your Classics Club list – in a separate post each one numbered from 1 to 20.
2. This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in February & March. So, try to challenge yourself. You could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
3 Next Monday, The Classics club will post a number from 1 to 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by April 1.
Well I didn’t have any books I was dreading on my list – but there are some I know I keep by-passing and so I have added them to my list – along with some I am perhaps fairly neutral about and a few I simply can’t wait to read.
This is my spin list
1. Rites of Passage – William Golding
2. The Brimming Cup – Dorothy Canfield
3. Lying Days – Nadine Gordimer
4. Company Parade – Storm Jameson
5. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
6. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
7. The Song of the Lark – Willa Cather
8. The Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer
9. The Odd Women – George Gissing
10. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
11. The Little Girls – Elizabeth Bowen
12. Salem Chapel – Margaret Oliphant
13. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
14. Taking Chances – Molly Keane
15. The Squire – Enid Bagnold
16. Summer – Edith Wharton
17. Farewell Leicester Square – Betty Miller
18. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
19. The Rising Tide – Molly Keane
20. Emma – Jane Austen
So I will be looking out for that all important number, being drawn next Monday. The corresponding title will either be read towards the end ofthis month or the beginning of March.
May I ask what the Classics Club is? It looks a fun idea!
The classic club is here
http://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/
and I’m sure will explain everything you need to know – I have my full classic club list on a seperate page on my blog.
I havent made a dent in my Classics club list and havent signed up for this. I have two books in a spiral to finish and am only part way through the first book, and then I have 2.5 LTER books that I really need to finish, then a book from another challenge I need to finish *then* i will look to start a non-challenge book. Sighs
I know, so many books so little time – it’s a constant problem.
We have some of the same authors on our lists, though not the same books — Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Margaret Oliphant. I’ve read several of the books on your list. I liked Summer and The Song of the Lark (mostly) and Emma is great, though she’s sometimes a frustrating character. The Odd Women was interesting though a bit preachy in spots.
I’m very impressed that you have Tristram Shandy on the list, I’m terrified of that book!
That is one of the one’s I am umm nervous? of : ) Emma will be a re-read and I have a very georgous new edition of it too,
It will be fun to see what everyone draws for this event! I think I’ve finally convinced myself to do it, too.
Excellent, not long to wait now.
Black Beauty! I began this in Jan for the Children’s Classics Event and never got around to finishing it. Guess I have to now.
oh that will be lovely : ) enjoy.
oh that will be lovely : ) enjoy.
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Tristram Shandy eh. Now that’s what I call brave……
..yeah that was close : D
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