The Classics Club: what I got for The Classics Spin #33

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2022-2027

MY FULL CLASSICS CLUB 4th LIST IS HERE

The Classics Spin #33

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For this Classics spin #33, I got #18 which on my list was

Hag's Nook

Hag’s Nook is a mystery published in 1932,
the first one in a series of 23 books featuring Dr. Gideon Fell.
161 pages

“In his detecting debut, larger than life lexicographer Dr. Gideon Fell is entertaining young American college graduate Tad Rampole at Yew Cottage, Fell’s charming home in the English countryside. Within sight of his study window is the ruin of Chatterham Prison, perched high on a precipice known as Hag’s Nook. The prison’s land belongs to the Starberth family—whose eldest sons must each spend an hour in the prison’s eerie “Governor’s Room” to inherit the family fortune.
Rampole is especially interested in the family, having met the young and beautiful Dorothy Starberth on the train from London. He readily agrees when Fell and the local reverend, Thomas Saunders, ask him to accompany them as they watch and wait for badly frightened Martin Starberth to complete ‘his hour’ in the prison. Martin has every reason to be afraid; more than one Starberth heir has met an untimely end. Will his turn come tonight?

This will finally be my first book by John Dickson Carr.
And I have the feeling I’ll be enjoying this one much more than the #18 I got for spin 24 (see below).

You don’t know about John Dickson Carr?
The best thing to do then is to visit this post by The Green Capsule.
And by the way, this is an awesome blog if you love classic mysteries.
This post is an excellent recap of his work.
I believe that’s how the book got on my list in the first place.

Have you read this selection, or other works by John Dicksn Carr?
What did you think?

It’s never too late to challenge yourself to (re)discover the classics and connect and have fun with other Classics lovers. See here what this is all about.

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Here is what I got for the previous Classics Spins:

A wizard of Earthsea Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Arsene Lupin

For Classics Spin #14, I got #1: A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
For Classics Spin, #15, I got #12: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
For Classics Spin, #16, I got #4: Arsène Lupin, by Maurice Leblanc

The Face of Another A Moveable Feast The Dream of the Red Chamber

For Classics Spin, #17, I got #3: The Face of Another, by Kobo Abe (not yet reviewed!!)

For Classics Spin, #19, I got #1: A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

For Classics Spin, #20, I got # 19: The Dream of the Red Chamber
by Cao Xueqin

On the Edge of the World  Sanshiro The Sleepwalkers

For Classics Spin, #21, I got # 5: On the Edge of the World, by Nikolai Leskov

For Classics Spin, #22, I got # 13: Sanshiro, by Natsume Soseki

For Classics Spin, #24, I got # 18: The Sleepwalkers, by Hermann Broch, which I didn’t take time to read!!

The Letter Killers Club History in English Words A Man Lay Dead

For Classics Spin, #25, I got # 14: The Letter Killers Club – which was way over my head.

For Classics Spin, #26, I got # 11: History in English Words, by Owen Barfield, a fascinating book, which I haven’t reviewed yet!!

For Classics Spin, #28, I got # 12: A Man Lay Dead, by Ngaio Marsh, alas a disappointing one.

The Man in the Queue  The Bride Wore Black Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

For Classics Spin, #29, I got #11: The Man in the Queue, by Josephine Tey.
For Classics Spin, #30, I got #5: The Bride Wore Black, by Cornell Woolrich

For Classics Spin, #31, I got #2: Selected poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke

 

 

 

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The Classics Club: The Classics Spin #33

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The Classics Club
2022-2027

The Classics Spin #33

Time for a new spin!

At your blog, before Sunday, March 19, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.

On Sunday March 19, 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 April 30, 2023.

Here are 20 titles I have selected from my 4th list of 150 classics.
In this list of 20, the first 3 titles are books on my physical book shelves, and ll the rest are mysteries.

1 Edgar Allan Poe Major Tales (1849)
2 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
3 MIchel Tournier Vendredi (1969)
4 Rudolph Fisher The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem (1932)
5 Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep (1939)
6 Freeman Wills Crofts Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924)
7 Anthony Berkeley The Layton Court Mystery (1925)
8 Brian Flynn The Billiard Room Mystery (1927)
9 Patricia Wentworth Grey Mask (1928)
10 Andredi Platonov The Foundation Pit (1930)
11 Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon (1930)
12 John Dickson Carr It Walks By Night (1930)
13 Gwen Bristow, Bruce Manning The Invisible Host (1930)
14 various authors The Floating Admiral (1931)
15 Francis Iles/Anthony Berkeley Malice Aforethought (1931)
16 Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man (1934)
17 E. C. R. Lorac The Murder on the Burrows (1932)
18 John Dickson Carr Hag’s Nook (1932)
19 Alice Campbell The Click of the Gate (1932)
20 Ethel Lina White Some Must Watch (1933)

COME BACK ON MONDAY MARCH 20
TO SEE WHICH BOOK I HAVE TO READ SOON.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU READ?
WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVORITE?
PLEASE SHARE YOUR OWN LIST!

MY FULL LIST IS HERE

The Classics Club: what I got for The Classics Spin #31

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The Classics Club
2022-2027

MY FULL CLASSICS CLUB LIST IS HERE

The Classics Spin #31

Twitter hashtag: #ccspin

For this Classics spin #31, I got #2 which on my list was

Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

This selection of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke was published in 1948, and then translated into English in1981. But these poems were actually written between 1899-1926.
I found this book at a library book sale last year.
I haven’t read Rilke since my teen years, so it will be lovely to revisit.
Plus it’s a bilingual edition, and it will be fun going back to German as well.
I’ll start reading it as soon as I’m done with my current print book, conversations between Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was born in Prague.
He is considered one of the German language’s greatest 20th century poets.
He also wrote more than 400 poems in French.

Have you read this selection, or other works by Rilke?
What did you think?

It’s never too late to challenge yourself to (re)discover the classics and connect and have fun with other Classics lovers. See here what this is all about.

📚 📚 📚 

Here is what I got for the previous Classics Spins:

A wizard of Earthsea Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Arsene Lupin

For Classics Spin #14, I got #1: A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin
For Classics Spin, #15, I got #12: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
For Classics Spin, #16, I got #4: Arsène Lupin, by Maurice Leblanc

The Face of Another A Moveable Feast The Dream of the Red Chamber

For Classics Spin, #17, I got #3: The Face of Another, by Kobo Abe (not yet reviewed!!)

For Classics Spin, #19, I got #1: A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

For Classics Spin, #20, I got # 19: The Dream of the Red Chamber
by Cao Xueqin

On the Edge of the World  Sanshiro The Sleepwalkers

For Classics Spin, #21, I got # 5: On the Edge of the World, by Nikolai Leskov

For Classics Spin, #22, I got # 13: Sanshiro, by Natsume Soseki

For Classics Spin, #24, I got # 18: The Sleepwalkers, by Hermann Broch, which I didn’t take time to read!!

The Letter Killers Club History in English Words A Man Lay Dead

For Classics Spin, #25, I got # 14: The Letter Killers Club – which was way over my head.

For Classics Spin, #26, I got # 11: History in English Words, by Owen Barfield, a fascinating book, which I haven’t reviewed yet!!

For Classics Spin, #28, I got # 12: A Man Lay Dead, by Ngaio Marsh, alas a disappointing one.

The Man in the Queue  The Bride Wore Black

For Classics Spin, #29, I got #11: The Man in the Queue, by Josephine Tey.
For Classics Spin, #30, I got #5: The Bride Wore Black, by Cornell Woolrich

 

 

 

 

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HAVE YOU READ THIS BOOK?
WHAT DID YOU THINK?

IF YOU ARE MEMBER OF THE CLASSICS CLUB,
WHAT BOOK DID YOU GET FOR THIS SPIN?

MY FULL CLASSICS CLUB LIST IS HERE

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