Good heavens, I almost missed this spin. I was going to change up my Classics Club list as the list I had wasn’t really targeting my top reads but there’s no time to do it now, so I’ll go with the original.
So ….. time for another spin:
- 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 the book by December 18, 2024
I used the random list organizer here to choose the 20 books from my master list. Here is my spin list:
- The Robe (1942) – Lloyd C. Douglas
- The Fairie Queene (1590 – 1596) – Edmund Spenser
- Electra (420 B.C. or later) – Sophocles
- Kidnapped (1886) – Robert Louis Stevenson
- On The Good Life (75 – 71 B.C.) – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Aristotle, Ethics (330 B.C.) – Aristotle
- Tartuffe (1669) – Molière
- The Heart of Darkness (1899) – Joseph Conrad
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 – 1885) – Freidrich Nietzsche
- The Taming of the Shrew (1590 – 1592) – William
- Twenty Years After (1845) – Alexandre Dumas
- Tom Sawyer (1876) – Mark Twain
- The Republic (380 B.C.) – Plato
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and a Journal of a Tour
- She Stoops to Conquer (1773) – Oliver Goldsmith
- O Pioneers! (1913) – Willa Cather
- On the Imitation of Christ (1418 – 1427) – Thomas à Kempis
- Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532 – 1564) – François Rabelais
- Travels with a Donkey in Cévennes (1879) – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Wives and Daughters (1864/66) – Elizabeth Gaskell
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 Projectand my Children’s Classics Project, with no deadline date, just a dedication to read at least one of them by the deadline.
And the winning number was 3 ! Electra by Sophocles is the winner. I’m so happy that I’m able to visit my Greeks!
See my other options below:
Classics Club Winner: Electra
Guardians Book List Winner: East Lynne
Shakespeare Winner: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Children’s List Winner: Travels in Arabian Deserts
Photo #1 courtesy of Greg Montani
Photo #2 courtesy of Nad Dyagileva
Photo #3 courtesy of Tyna Janoch
By Sophocles, I have read Antigone (French translation), but not this one. Enjoy!
https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/10/21/the-classics-club-what-i-got-for-the-classics-spin-39/
Thank you, Emma! I’ve never met a Greek whom I haven’t liked!
So glad to see another blogger reading the Greeks! I just finished Prometheus Bound. I’m looking forward to your Elektra review! And…I hope you are back to regular blogging…just keep the review short or just add a post with some great reading suggestions or smth else. We love to hear your voice, well, I do!
I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed Prometheus Bound. I have yet to read it. Thanks for the supportive words! I’m going to try to be more active with the blog.
The Electra is a good one! I read it in Greek in grad school. Hope you enjoy it!
Hi Reese! Good to hear from you! I’m so envious that you can/could read Greek. I’ve wanted to learn but it’s such a big time commitment.
Woohoo! That should be fun. Enjoy!
Yes, I certainly plan to!