Another spin and another attempt. Since incorporating not only my Classics Club list, but some of my other project lists, I’ve managed to read one book for each spin, so I’m going to continue! From my last spin, I’m finishing up The Amazing Adventures of Father Brown.
- 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 June 18, 2023 (but I say before the next spin).
I used the random list organizer here to choose the 20 books from my master list. Here is my spin list:
- Twenty Years After (1845) – Alexandre Dumas
- We (1921) – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- 1984 (1949) – George Orwell
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and a Journal of a Tour
- Red Badge of Courage (1895) – Stephen Crane
- Moll Flanders (1722) – Daniel Defoe
- The Name of the Rose (1980) – Umberto Eco
- The Silver Chalice (1952) – Thomas Costain
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 – 1885) – Freidrich Nietzsche
- Pot-Bouille (1882) – Emile Zola
- The Taming of the Shrew (1590 – 1592) – William
- The Stranger (1942) – Albert Camus
- O Pioneers! (1913) – Willa Cather
- Slaughterhouse Five (1969) – Kurt Vonnegut
- The Cherry Orchard (1904) – Anton Chekov
- King Solomon’s Mines (1885) – H. Rider Hagaard
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) – Jules Verne
- The Bucanneers (1938) – Edith Wharton
- Au Page d’Amour (1878) – Emile Zola
- The Good Soldier Svejk (1923) – Jaroslav Hasek
As with previous Spins, instead of producing a new post, I’m going to simply announce the winner below and, to make it easier to complete at least one book, I’m going to choose a book from my Guardians List, my Shakespeare Project and my Children’s Classics Project, with no deadline date, just a dedication to read.
And the winning number was 13 !
Classics Club Winner: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Guardians Book List Winner: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Shakespeare Winner: The Two Noble Kinsmen
Children’s List Winner: Bible in Spain by George Borrow
Other Spins:
Photo #1 courtesy of tjuusitalo on Pixabay
Photo #2 courtesy of nad dyagileva on Pixabay
Camus! That’s an interesting book. Good luck!
Thanks! I haven’t been blogging much but I have been reading!
Good luck with Pioneers! I like the few things of Cather’s that I’ve read (not Pioneers); she’s a really good writer.
Nice to see you’re around, Janakay, but I could say the same about myself. I’ve read only one Cather novel but enjoyed it. And a small novel is always welcome. Hope you’re doing well!
Enjoy! I have only read book 3 of this trilogy.
Here is what I got for 13: https://wordsandpeace.com/2023/06/19/the-classics-club-what-i-got-for-the-classics-spin-34/
I’m so interested as to what you think when you read your spin choice. I’m reading through Christie’s novels chronologically, and And Then There Was None is one of my favourites. I’ll await your review!
Glad to see back if briefly and sorry to hear you’re feeling overwhelmed. Hope that sorts out soon!
I liked O Pioneers! a lot, and it’s quite short so that helps. I’m actually curious about Two Noble Kinsmen–the only Shakespeare play I haven’t read, if it is by Shakespeare–it’s not even in my collected Shakespeare. But Di at littlewhiteattic.blogspot read it recently and she made it sound pretty interesting. I downloaded it onto my Kobo, but haven’t read it yet.
Anyway, hope you get some good reading in and maybe even some blogging!