It’s time for another Classics Spin for any who are interested. What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, by next Monday, Feb 10, list your choice of any twenty books you’ve left to read from your Classics Club list – in a separate post.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in February & March
A number will be randomly drawn on Monday and I will then know my fate, I hope to read my spin book during March. I have decided to do this again as it has been such fun in the past. I know some people have books on their spin lists that they are dreading reading, There are no books I am dreading on my classic club list though there are a few I keep putting off. Therefore there aren’t any books on my spin list that I am really scared to read – life is too short to list books I’m not sure I want to read, there are one or two I am nervous about. Despite haing read Henry James before – I have been putting off re-reading him for years, and I feel a bit nervous about Mikhail Bulgakov and Slyvia Townsend Warner for different reasons. There are lots of books I would cheer to have selected though – fingers crossed for one of those – and some, that I no longer remember why I added them to my classic club list in the first place.
So here is my list for this time around:
Women writers
1 The Yellow wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2 A sea grape tree – Rosamond Lehmann
3 The Land of Green Ginger – Winifred Holtby
4 The Rising Tide – Molly Keane
5 Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Kindle books
6.The Custom of the Country – Edith Wharton
7 In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim – Frances Hodgson Burnett
8 A rogue’s life – Wilkie Collins
9 The Leavenworth Case – Anna Katharine Green
10 One of Ours – Willa Cather
Re-reads
11. Agnes Gey – Anne Bronte
12 Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
13 All Passion Spent – Vita Sackville West
14 Doctor Thorne – Anthony Trollope
15 Washington Square – Henry James
Non British writers
16 The Heart of a Dog Mikhail Bulgakov
17 Smoke – Ivan Turgenev
18 Sunlight on a broken column – Attia Hosein
19 The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
20 Sapphira and the Slave Girl – Willa Cather
Looking forward to finding out my fate.
I’ve been meaning to read Sylvia Townsend Warner for ages, so I’m hoping you get that one so that you can enlighten me as to whether Lolly Willowes is a good place to start.
🙂 have 3 STW booka tbr having previously read The Corner which held them which I really liked but still she makes me nervous 🙂
What a lovely list Ali – all of them look very readable! As for STW, I’ve only read Mr. Fortune’s Maggot. I was nervous too but it turned out to be really good!
I think you’ll love Lolly Willowes, although I think The Corner That Held Them is my favorite.
That’s good to hear. Lilly Willowes certainly intrigues me.
Great list! I enjoyed The Land of Green Ginger and The Phantom of the Opera. And A Rogue’s Life is a fun and very short read. Good luck on Monday.
Thank you.
The Leavenworth Case was my first spin book, and I’d be pleased if it span your way because there are echoes of Wilkie Collins, and I’d love to know what you made of them. But of course I hope you love whichever book spins your way.
Thanks. I would be pleased to get The Leavenworth case too.
Your list is mostly filled with books I haven’t seen on other spin list, could be bad for my TBR pile.
🙂 Hope you get a good result on Monday.
Nice list! I read both Sapphira and the Slave Girl and The Land of Green Ginger in January, and liked them both. I also love Dr. Thorne, one of my favorite Trollopes. I hope you get a good pick on Monday!
Thank you.
Good luck on Monday! I think you are guaranteed a good read with such a fantastic list of books. I’m not joining in this time around,but I look forward to seeing what everyone gets.
Thanks yes I like my list too on the whole.