Classics Club Spin #45

Jill Wellington

I’m not sure why I keep doing these Spins. I’m overloaded with book-commitments, but it at least reminds me of the lists of books I want to read. And I’m also late for the Classics Club Spin #45.  But better late than never.

Using my Classics Club list, I’m going to hope for something not too taxing.  At least I’ve finished The Grapes of Wrath and Tom Sawyer recently so my list is getting shorter.

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Classics Club Spin #33

Walkway Trimmed BushesOh, heavens!  I haven’t accomplished much on the spins.  I did manage to find my copy of Revelations of Divine Love, so that’s promising.  Otherwise I :

  • am reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations but haven’t finished it
  • have begun Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs on my Kindle (the children’s version) and also started one volume of the original.  I’m planning to finish the Kindle version, which is all I committed to; the original is both too long and too difficult to find for me to commit to it now
  • I began Aristotle’s Ethics as a course quite awhile ago.  I plan to finish … but ….
  • I finished Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert de Jong.  Woo hoo!

Not the results I wanted but, oh well!
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Classics Club Spin #28

Rabbit Spinning

Another day, another spin and I’m in!  I haven’t finished my last spin ….. yet.  I’m still reading through The Merchant of Venice but at least I started and do plan to finish so it’s not a complete fail.  And I’ve discovered a new energy to read some of the books on my Classics Club list.  So a spin is just the thing.  Let’s see what comes up …..

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