
Good morning, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Spin for any who are interested. What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, by next Monday, May 20, 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 May & June. (Details follow.) 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 July 1. We’ll have a check in post for July, to see who made it the whole way and finished the spin book.
Do you have that?
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Try to challenge yourself: list five 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.)
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog by next Monday.
- Monday morning, we’ll announce a number from 1-20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted, and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce.
- The challenge is to read that book by July 1, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)
Ha ha! 😀 All for fun, and of course, the “rules” are, as always, very relaxed. Really, you can make up your own rules. We don’t actually care. 😛
So, today (any time this week) at your blog, you might post something like:
My Book Spin list for the Classics Club –
- Jane Eyre
- Pride and Prejudice
- Crime and Punishment
- Oliver Twist
- CLARISSA (yikes!)
- Gone With the Wind
- Ulysses (Ugh!)
- Emerson’s Collected Essays
- Richard III
- The Iliad
- Jude the Obscure
- Leaves of Grass
- The Monk
- Dracula
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Sense & Sensibility
- The Tempest
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Paradise Lost
- Pilgrim’s Progress
(Obviously, YOU choose what books you want to list, in what order.)
Next Monday, we will announce a number from 1 through 20. When we announce it, go to your Spin list. Find that number, and read the book listed for that number by July 1.
So, if (for example) we announce #9 — if the above list was your Spin List, you’d have to read Richard III by July 1.
Make sense? Don’t get bogged down by rules and details! Free free to rebelliously break the rules at your leisure.
As always, the prize is the reading experience. 🙂
When we announce the number next Monday, come tell us your title — ha!
Anybody in? If so, you can link to your spin lists below. Happy week!
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
– the Club
Obviously very excited to be doing this again.
Here is my list: http://literarynerdsunite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/classics-spin-2-ambitiousreckless-spin.html
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I’m in!! http://www.sarahreadstoomuch.com/2013/05/classics-club-spin-2.html
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Very excited to be spinning again. I’ve tried to match my books with fellow clubbers so I have someone to read along with. If I’ve left you off by mistake please let me know & I will happily add you.
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/classics-club-spin-2.html
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I love the last Classics Spin! I had to join again! http://classicvasilly.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-classics-spin-round-2/
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I’m doing it again : )
http://heavenali.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/classic-club-spin-2/
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I’m going to join in the spin! My first one 😉
http://loniseye.blogspot.ca/2013/05/the-classics-spin.html
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Technically I’m on a blogging break, but I love classics AND lists. Maybe this will inspire me to start blogging again. Here’s my list:
http://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.com/2013/05/classics-spin-redux.html
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Going to try again…http://www.underagraysky.com/2013/05/16/classics-club-spin-2/
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I’m in! Here’s my list: http://roofbeamreader.com/2013/05/16/the-classics-club-spin-2/
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And here’s my list: http://janegs.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-classics-spin.html
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My list is posted… with just a few modifications from spin #1.
http://lakesidemusing.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-classics-spin.html
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Classics club virign. Here is my list: http://myporchblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/letting-someone-else-choose-your-book.html
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Here’s my list. Excited to see what number Monday brings!
http://wildmoobooks.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-classics-spin-2.html
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Thanks for hosting this again! I failed last time around due to the full-time job and school keeping me busier than expected, but I’m ready to get serious this time. Here’s my list:
http://lostgenerationreader.com/2013/05/15/the-classics-club-spin-2/
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This is really cool! My list is here: http://epilogging.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-spin-list/
I am brand new to this, so don’t be alarmed by the lack of absolutely anything on my blog.
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Here is my spin list, not much different from the first one though:http://readinpleasure.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-classics-spin-2/
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Here’s my list !
http://whatihaveinmindblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/my-first-classic-spin/
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Here is my list!! This is the first time I participate!!
http://fromisi.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-classics-spin-2/
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Thrilled to be spinning again! Here’s my list: tp://jackiemania.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-classics-spin-2/
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Hello, I am joining this again. Here’s my list: http://bookrhapsody.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-second-classics-spin/
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I’m in of course! 🙂 Here’s my list: http://klasikfanda.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-classics-spin-2.html
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I didn’t get to take part last time, so I’m excited this time around! Here’s my list:
http://tinylibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/classics-club-spin-2.html
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Looking forward to another spin.
http://cat-bookmagic.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/spinning-again-with-classics-club.html
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Reading Ulysses by July 1…of which year? 🙂
I was pleasantly surprised by the readability of Pilgrim’s Progress. I approached it with fear and ended up liking it.
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I’m looking forward to another spin! Here’s my list:
http://shereadsnovels.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/another-classics-club-spin/
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I’m going to join this time around. 🙂
http://rachelreadingnthinking.blogspot.com/2013/05/classics-club-spin-2.html
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I’m taking a spin this time! Good number please, no whammies! 🙂
http://momssmallvictories.com/classics-club-spin-2-book-list/
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I’m so glad we’re doing this again! It’s so much fun 🙂 Good luck everyone!!
http://unscripted35.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/lets-give-it-another-whirl/
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Yahoo for the Spin! Here is my post:http://therelentlessreader.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-classics-spin.html
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This is my first go at a Spin! It should get me started – I’m a bit daunted by some of my longer books.
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Here is my list! http://surgabukuku.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/my-list-for-the-classics-spin-2/
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*happy dance* I loved the first Classics Spin! I read “Arrowsmith”, which I quite liked, but I doubt I would have got to it any time in nearish future without the spin.
I will post my 20 books later this week 🙂
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Yippee I loved the first spin as I got to read The Magnificent Ambersons. If I have time on the weekend I will try to match my list as much as possible to other lists so that I get to read me book with someone else 🙂
For those who use instagram the hashtag is also #ccspin so you can post a picture of your book, where you are reading it, snack, beverage & weather update etc!
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Here is mine: http://jaynesbooks.blogspot.ca/2013/05/classics-spin-2-ccspin.html
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Here’s mine! I loved this the first time round. Looking forward to it!
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The first spin worked beautifully for me, and so I had to do another list. Here it is!
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My first Classics Spin did not work as schedule, so I would like to try it again, hopefully this time will be finished before the end of June, so here is my list : http://my-classic-books.blogspot.com/2013/05/funtastic-challenge-classics-spin-2.html … goosh, now I’m already scare waiting for the spin next Monday 😀 Good Luck for everyone too !
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Yay! I needed another one of these to help me choose my next read!
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I really like this challenge and have put my list of 20 books together HERE. I like the idea that it may force me to read one of the books I’ve been putting off. Whatever happens, I know I’ll have one book less on my reading list.
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This is my first spin and I’m excited! Thankfully, most of the 50 books I want to read, but I have some in the list that I’m not looking forward to.
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Here’s my second Classics Spin. I really like these spins as they remind me to be more active in this club. Other challenges and life gets in the way sometimes, but these spins force me to read from the list. Good luck everyone!
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I’m in! Chickened out of the first spin. Already complied a preliminary list of 20 for spin #2. Thanks for the motivation/support!
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I suppose complied isn’t too far off the mark, but I meant compiled. 🙂
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