The Classics Club
2016-2020
The Classics Spin #14
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
I finally managed my subscriptions, so I can now know when a new spin is posted!
Here is what was announced:
At your blog, by next Monday, October 3, 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 October & November. So, try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
Next Monday, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by December 1, 2016. We’ll have a check in here in December, to see who made it the whole way and finished the spin book.
So here are my 20 books, not too much extra challenge, these are all books I can’t wait to read!!
- A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
- The Poisoned Crown by Maurice Druon
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
- The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
- The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
- Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
- Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
- Arsène Lupin, by Maurice Leblanc
- The Face of Another, by Kobo Abe
- Moderato Cantabile, by Marguerite Duras
- The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino
- Solaris, by Stanislas Lem
- Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Fantômas, by Marcel Allain
- A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
- Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White
- The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
COME BACK ON OCTOBER 3
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ
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September 29, 2016
WordsAndPeace
14 responses to “The Classics Club: The Classics Spin #14”
Cleo @ Classical Carousel
September 30th, 2016 at 09:34
My votes would go to Three Men in a Boat (hilarious) and The Moonstone (suspenseful). It’s a great list though. I have a Calvino, but it’s If On A Winter’s Night a Traveller. Best of luck with your spin!
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WordsAndPeace
October 1st, 2016 at 12:27
I totally fell in love with If On A Winter’s Night a Traveller, and read 2 others by Calvino. Now time to discover more by him. I love all the OULIPO’s authors, great bunch!
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N@ncy
September 30th, 2016 at 10:55
Great mix! Classic, SF and books by French authors. I’ve read Duras and Leroux…excellent!
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WordsAndPeace
October 1st, 2016 at 12:23
I haven’t read any Duras for many years now, so that would be nice. As a French student, I read several, all enjoyable
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FictionFan
September 30th, 2016 at 12:37
Great list with lots of variety! My picks would be Three Men in a Boat or The Martian Chronicles – both books I love. We both have Childhood’s End on our lists. Hope you get one you enjoy! 🙂
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WordsAndPeace
October 1st, 2016 at 12:20
actually, as I was done with my last audiobook and the one I wanted to listen next was on hold, I started listening to The Martian Chronicles! Loving it, I was even regretting I didn’t have more to iron!! Yes, I still iron clothes, and I need to have something manual to do to listen to audiobboks 😉
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Karen K.
September 30th, 2016 at 12:41
Three Men in a Boat and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are two of my favorites — totally different but both wonderful. Good luck for your Spin pick!
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WordsAndPeace
October 1st, 2016 at 12:18
thanks, impatient to know what number we’ll get!
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lakesidemusing
September 30th, 2016 at 15:07
I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Moonstone! Hope you are happy with Monday’s spin.
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WordsAndPeace
October 1st, 2016 at 12:13
thanks! I’m gong to try actually to choose the audio version for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Brona
September 30th, 2016 at 18:34
I have a couple of Cather’s books on my spin, but I wish you The Moonstone for this spin. A wonderful engaging mystery.
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WordsAndPeace
October 1st, 2016 at 12:07
thanks! I can’t wait to see the winner! just commented on yours
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Gubbinal
October 1st, 2016 at 12:00
You have some excellent choices and can hardly go wrong with any number. I am glad to see that you are including a play too. Excellent choice! Sometimes when we watch plays we get so carried away by the action and the drama and the acting that it’s hard to pick up on carefully interwoven themes and the poetry of the words and images.
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WordsAndPeace
October 1st, 2016 at 12:34
yes, I do try to read plays as well form time to time
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