The Classics Club Spin #25 has arrived and I’ve decided to jump right in and participate. With my reduced reading time, I wonder why, but I did finish my #23 spin and might even have finished my #24 spin if I didn’t misplace the book. 🙄 In any case, here we go again.
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club list.
- Post that list, numbered 1 – 20, on your blog by Sunday.
- Sunday morning, the Classics Club will announce a number from 1 – 20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted and select the book that corresponds to the number they announce.
- The challenge is to read that book by January 30th 2021.
I used the random list organizer here to choose the 20 books from my master list. Here is my spin list:
- Tevye the Dairyman and Moti the Cantor’s Son (1894) – Sholem Aleichem
- Dead Souls (1842) – Nikolai Gogol
- 1984 (1949) – George Orwell
- Troilus & Criseyde (1382-86) – Geoffrey Chaucer
- On The Good Life (75 – 71 B.C.) – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The Mill on the Floss (1860) – George Eliot
- The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) – James Boswell
- On the Imitation of Christ (1418-1427) – Thomas à Kempis
- The Consolation of Philosophy (524) – Boethius
- Ivanhoe (1820) – Sir Walter Scott
- The Republic (380 B.C.) – Plato
- Meditations (170-180) – Marcus Aurelius
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) – Jules Verne
- Works and Days (8th century) – Hesiod
- The Decameron (1353) – Giovanni Boccaccio
- Tartuffe (1669) – Molière
- Crime and Punishment (1866) – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Gorgias (382 B.C.) – Plato
- The Forsyte Saga (1906-21) – John Galsworthy
- News from Nowhere (1890) – William Morris
I was really happy with these choices considering some that I could have drawn. I’d like most of them, especially The Decameron (reading slowly already), Dead Souls (attempted a few times), The Mill on the Floss (started in the spring) and Crime and Punishment. I’m not really dreading any except I’d rather not get Ivanhoe, The Life of Samuel Johnson and The Forsyte Saga, but only because of their length.
So wish me luck ’cause here I go a-spinning!
Lots to tempt me, too. If only I could squeeze in a little more reading time! Good luck.
Yikes, you don’t have time to read either? That’s so sad! I do hope you get some more time for it, especially with winter and the cold weather coming. Be tempted!
I still need to read Crime and Punishment! Next year for sure 🙂
Check in and see if available before you start, that is if I don’t get it for this spin. I’m still reading through Udolpho and WILL finish it!
Yes you will finish for sure!! 🙂 And I’ll definitely check in with you on C&P…maybe can even start if you get it this spin!
Okay, it’s a deal! Another buddy read with me dragging behind would be fun! 😉
Ha! 😊 anything to get us to keep on reading!
You’ve started Decameron! I don’t think I’m going to put it on my spin list but if it does spin up for you, I’ll join in for sure.
Otherwise some serious stuff! Fr’instance I think it took me longer to read The Republic than it did to read The Forsyte Saga, which moves along pretty well…
Anyway, hope you get something you like & hope all is well!
I’m reading through The Decameron very slowly and I kind of hope I don’t get it so I can continue with my slow plod. I’d like to read some Christmas stories from now until the end of the year and would feel like I’d have to rush if I got it.
You seem to be on a different sort of reading track lately. And I applaud you for all the poems you read. Always a goal of mine and although I don’t read many, I do read some throughout the year which is more than I would if it wasn’t a goal, lol!
I’m busy but enjoying myself. The weather here is sometimes like a cool summer day. Hope you are well too!
I’ve only read a few of these (and they weren’t favs), but hopefully you’ll enjoy whatever we get. Cheers!
I’m curious as to your “not favs”. Thanks for the wishes, Joseph!
I specifically didn’t identify them, so as not to bias you, but you asked (well, sort of…I’m inferring you asked). But first, not favs – doesn’t mean hated. So, I don’t love 1984, and C&P is maybe my least favorite of Dostoyevsky, whom I usually love.
Ah, thanks Joseph. I’m actually not expecting to “like” 1984, but I’m hoping it will be interesting. Dostoyevsky can be so obscure. I think he can be both liked and disliked. But I’m curious now!
Good luck!
And that says it ALL! 😉
I enjoyed Ivanhoe and read bits of the Decameron back in my university days. Will look forward to seeing your result.
I’m looking forward to Ivanhoe but not it’s length right now. The Decameron is fun. And yes, I can’t wait until Sunday. Thanks for visiting, Shonna!
Such a strong list, Cleo! I love the idea of using a list randomizer – I might try it next time! Good luck with your spin 🙂
Thanks, Juliana! I really like the randomizer …. it makes list-making so much easier!
That’s a great list. I enjoyed The Mill on the Floss and 1984 and I liked Crime and Punishment a lot more than I’d expected to. Ivanhoe is fun, but certainly not a quick read, so I hope you get something shorter this time!
I would really like to get The Mill on the Floss. I began it once and it had a Thomas Hardy-feel to it. I, too, hope for something shorter but we’ll see. Happy spinning to you!
What a varied list! I read Crime and Punishment this year and it was worth it and The Mill on the Floss is in my top 5 closest to my heart category – good luck for Sunday!
I’m so glad to hear that about The Mill on the Floss. I think I’m rooting for that one now. Thanks for the wishes, Jane! You have a great spin as well!
Lots to love here. I’m wishing you #10, I totally fell in love with Ivanhoe when I was 8 or 9. Which would be Devils in Daylight for me:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2020/11/20/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-25/
Ivanhoe is soooo huge!!! I have an enormous edition of it that might kill me if it fell on me, lol! Have a great spin, Emma!
6 or 17 for me. I’m just past half-way in my 950 page Aussie read for Brona’s challenge this month. Fortunately the book is very readable (The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney) or I’d never finish it.
I was wanting to read The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney one Aussie reading challenge …. I think it was the only Aussie book I could find in my library. Are you enjoying it? I’d certainly like to get either of your choices!
Good luck, Cleo! 🤞 I enjoyed Journey to the Centre of the Earth (although not as much as Around the World in Eighty Days) and I also have Ivanhoe on my list, however it is a re-read for me, as I read that many years ago, I remember little to nothing about it! 😅
Thanks, Jessica! I’d really like to read through all the Jules Verne novels. I’m sure I’d love Ivanhoe, just not the length right now. However, if you drew it, I’d be so tempted to read it too. Can’t wait until tomorrow!
Cleo ….I love your unbound optimisim! Dead Souls again? Here is the deal – I will join you if you get #1 or #2
It’s a deal, sis! I will be determined to get through one or the other. Tomorrow will tell!
A very good list, I don’t know all the titles, which is good (discovery, discovery). I also love the pictures you used, they are beautiful 🙂
Hi Izabel and welcome! I’m glad I could give you some books to discover as other have done me. Thanks so much for the compliment!
I have two of those titles too! News From Nowhere and Thomas a Kempis. Of course they’re different numbers. I’ve read the Tevye stories….get ready to have your heart broken.
I saw News From Nowhere on your list and completely blanked that I had it too. 🙄 Aw! If I get Tevye, I will be sure to bring out the box of Kleenex!