We promised you a spin number this morning, and here it is! Your Spin Number is –
4.
If you joined the game last week, find number 4 on your Spin List! That’s the title you are challenged to read by October 1, 2013. We’ll toss a post up on October 1 to see who completed the game.
As always, the prize is the reading experience. Details here.
In case anyone asks — it would be awesome if everyone posted about their Spin book on October 1. But that’s not mandatory or anything. If you want to, though, have at it! 🙂
Check in below if you played. What’s your #4 title? Are you glad, hesitant, excited about your title? Do tell!
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
– the Club
The Classics Club 
I finished my Spin #3 – The Phantom Tollbooth. I make take some heat for this review, but… here it is http://booksaplentybooksgalore.blogspot.com/2013/09/classic-review-phantom-tollbooth.html
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I’ve been pretty busy the past month but I can’t believe I missed spin #3.
If it’s not against the rules, I’ll use my list from spin#2 to join in. Which means my book is Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel.
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My number 4 is The Lady of the Camellias by Dumas (fils) – I’m slightly dreading it.
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My book is 1984 by Orwell!
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I have another Dickens’ read for this spin. This time it is The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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It’s Jane Eyre for me. Hope I can pull it off. 🙂
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I love Jane Eyre–a true masterpiece, it is 🙂
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I’ll be reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. I am very very excited 🙂
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I’ll be reading A room with a view by E M Forster.
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I got A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and I am very excited! It was one of the books I was hoping for with this book roulette game. I just read Z: A Story of Zelda Fitzgerald and I am definitely in the mind set for A Moveable Feast. Yay!
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Mmmmm good luck with that!
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I got Desiring God by John Piper, one of my free choices; not a ‘can’t wait to read’ but it’s a book I’ve wanted to read for a long time so I’m in a good place with the spin result. Non-fiction always takes me ages longer to get through so I may well need till Oct 1 to finish it 😉
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I’m reading Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope. I’ve heard this is one of the best of the stand-alone novels, so I’m happy about that — though it’s more than 800 pages!!
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I will be reading The Bell Jar for my first official Classics Club read. I’m really looking forward to it!
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Yay!! I got Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen..
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It’s a brilliant read. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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Oh, awesome! For some reason I can hardly remember anything about that novel. I’m not sure why. I remember bits and pieces (and of course the storyline) but I must have rushed through it too quickly. . . .
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You should check out Austen in August over at Roof Beam Reader as well. We’ve all had a fabulous month reading JA…which is partly why I missed seeing the classic spin #3.
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I am currently reading Emma for Austen in August.
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Bleak House, is that better or worse than The Brother’s Karamazov, I partly want to read that one….
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Bleak House is brilliant, Dickens’ best, by far. It has everything — romance, comedy, drama, social satire, murder — it’s wonderful. Long, but wonderful!!!
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I read Bleak House beacuse Classic Club Spin forced me to revisit Great Expectation and I loved both. Bleak House is filled with satire, goodness and a very sensitive look at the extremes of the Victorial socio-economic ladder. Its a wonderful read!
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I read Bleak House last year and adored it. I’m sure you’ll be glad to that it came up as your spin number.
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I get Middlemarch by George Elliot! I am kinda apprehensive. I read her Mill on the Floss and that kind of put me off her works!!!
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I felt the same — I read Mill on the Floss in high school and hated it, but I think I was too young to appreciate it. I read Middlemarch a few years ago and absolutely loved it, though the first 100 pages are a little dry. It’s definitely worth sticking with!!
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Thanks Karen! I read Mill on Floss in school as well and you are right…. absolutely loathed it! Thank you for the encouragement though! I also read Great Expectation in school and disliked it. But when I read it recently for the Classic Club Spin…I just loved it! So I am inspired and I am hopeful! 🙂
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My spin book is Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. I was kind of neutral about this one, though I loved Rebecca and consider it a favorite. Hopefully, I’ll have the same experience with this one!
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I quite liked Jamaica Inn, though you have to read it without the “Rebecca” baggage!
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Jamaica Inn is brilliant. I read it on holiday in Cornwall, checked out the places Daphne lived, history of smuggling in the area. I hope you love the book.
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We share the Daphne love this time around – I’m reading My Cousin Rachel 🙂
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Wuthering Heights! This was one I admit I was dreading.
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I’m actually reading that one right now! Don’t be too scared… 😉
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One of my all time favourites. I hope you really enjoy it.
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War and Peace.
Looks like I won’t be reading much else between now and then ;p
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I hope you will love War and Peace …I did! I too felt the same way but once I began to read it, I was hooked and the pages flew by!
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I’m reading it now and it’s amazing!
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I got South Riding by Winifred Holtby – very happy! 🙂
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Yay! I get to read The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley 🙂 I was excited about that one. Yahooooooooooo!
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I’ll be reading A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. A play, yikes!
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It’s very good and a fast read! Mine is more than 800 pages!
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I’ll be reading My Antonia by Willa Cather. I’ve only read one of her books before – A Lost Lady, which I loved, so I’m really looking forward to reading this one.
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I’ll be reading The Crying of Lot 49 next month. What’s kind of cool about these spins, though, is it shows me what I really want to read next. I had a few titles from my list that I was crossing my fingers for. Those are shot to the top of my TBR list. That’s great. TBR clarity is always appreciated 😀
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I really liked Crying of Lot 49. It’s so weird. 🙂
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I honestly have no clue what it’s about. Not one detail. I was supposed to read it for a book club a few years ago, but I had to drop out because of a work thing. Been on my list ever since.
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I got Jane eyre, not looking forward to this one right now. I have always been a little weary of this book. Hope I like it.
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I’d been dreading that one myself and finally read it a couple years ago and enjoyed it. Hope you do, too!
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Oh, I love Jane Eyre! A true masterpiece–definitely one of my favorites in literature, along with The Lord of the Rings and Great Expectations!
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I got Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, which I have been looking forward to for a long time. I’ve been extremely lucky on both the spins I have participated in so far.
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I LOVED Out of Africa…Dinesen beautifully captured the land, the people and politics of that time…its nostalgic, mesmerising and I felt intensely touching!
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I’m having fun reading books from my #ccspin list. I don’t know how you guys define “classic” but I’m reading “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Mohsin Hamid, #4 on my list.
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I really enjoyed this one! Read it for a book club and we had a great discussion about it.
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I’ll be reading Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, which is fine (although I did say I was dreading it). Never mind, I shall now officially be looking forward to it. 😉
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That’s on my main list, too. Kinda dreading it myself so I look forward to hearing what you think of it!
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Yippee! I think it worked out this time! I got a book that I can’t wait to read! Now, finding it! 🙂
http://imaloverofbooks.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/and-the-number-is/
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Last time I got the super short Heart of Darkness and this time it’s Don Quixote! 🙂 Funnily I decided to start Don Q. a few days ago anyway, so I’m 100 pages in (a little more than 1/10)!! Happy reading, everyone!
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oooh that one really intimedates me! 🙂 Happy reading!
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My spin book is Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut. I love Vonnegut’s work, so I’m excited!
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I got Niels Lyhne, by Jens Peter Jacobsen. Yay! I’ve been wanting to read it. 🙂 (It’s a re-read–I took Scandianvian Lit in college and this was one of my favorites, but now I’ve forgotten all about it.)
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I’ll be reading The House of Mirth. I hope I’ll finish it before October 1st!
http://loniseye.blogspot.ca/2013/08/i-will-be-reading.html
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I got Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, and I’m looking forward to reading this one, I read it many years ago and it will be lovely to revisit it!
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Ooo there’s an adaptation of that one coming. I’ve read a few Hardys but not this one, though I’ve read many extensive passages of it.
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That was my selection too! I have read two other Hardy books and I liked them. Can’t wait to dig into this one!
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My favourite Hardy – enjoy!
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I love Hardy and enjoyed reading Far From the Madding Crowd. I feel a reread coming soon.
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I will be reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and I am actually pretty happy about it!
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I read Fahrenheit 451 for the last spin. It’s certainly one to make you think.
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Fahrenheit 451 is an awesome book. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
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I got Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan (nearly typed Carl!). Another spin classic of slim proportions!
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Bonjour Tristesse is a quick read. I remember reading it on the beach :p
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I got Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 🙂
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A quick read! Haven’t read it since university – good luck!
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I have Through the Looking Glass on my list too 🙂
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Last time I got one I was looking forward to, so it’s only fair that this time I got one I was dreading – Utopia by Thomas More. Oh well, it forces me to read it now rather than later 🙂
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Never heard of this one. But then that would be unusual for me! Hope it goes well for you!
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I actually really liked that one–hope it’s not too painful for you. 🙂
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That’s good to hear. Maybe it won’t be so bad after all!
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Anyone who can quote Thomas More is well worth the effort 🙂
The only reason I ever heard of Thomas More’s Utopia was because of its mention in Twentieth Century Fox’s 1998 Ever After: A Cinderella Story. Haha.
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