All right, clubbers! Back in early November, we announced The Classics Spin #4, challenging you to read Book #10 on your spin list by January 1. Today is January 1!
Did you read your book? Did you write about it, or will you?
What was your book, and what did you think? Share below. Feel free to link to your post below, as and when you write about your book.
As always, the prize is the reading experience. Details here.
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
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I completely failed. I’ll be carrying it on in my tbr soon pile into January!
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I failed too. Try again. I’m going to try for January. Fingers crossed.
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I failed miserably at this task. I read the first page and that’s it. 😦 Too much working.
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I finished The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it!
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I did, I read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. My review is here: http://katrinasreads.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/northa-and-south-elizabeth-gaskell.html
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I made it this time – just sneaking in with a few days to spare. My spin book was The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene – absolutely fabulous book. Thanks for pushing me to read it. Here’s my review http://bookertalk.com/2013/12/30/the-power-and-the-glory-by-graham-greene-book-review/
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I completely failed at this. I started with good intentions – I looked at Catch-22, opened the pages a little, flicked through slightly and then lost all interest. Perhaps it wasn’t the right time to tackle a book that intimidates me. Next time!
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I finished Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ (a book I was dreading!) – my review is here:http://ymulholland.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/classics-spin-lolita-by-vladimir-nabokov/
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I finished my Spin #4 book, The War of the Worlds, with a few days to spare. Here is my review post.
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I still have ~200 pages of my #10, St. Augustine’s City of God, left to read. (I’m reading an abridged version, so this is less impressive than it might have been.) I think I would have finished it, but I was overly ambitious and took on the spin the same month I was reading Ulysses for Roof Beam Reader’s read-along. But I finished Ulysses (and blogged about it), so I don’t feel too bad about not finishing Augustine yet.
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Update: I finished City of God today! Better late than never, I suppose. I blogged about it here: http://imperfecthappiness.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/city-of-god-by-augustine-of-hippo/
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I’m excited that I finished my spin book this time – and actually blogged about it! The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers was wonderfully-written and so very heart-wrenching… Here’s my review: http://readthegamut.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/book-review-the-ballad-of-the-sad-cafe-by-carson-mccullers-the-classics-club-spin/
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Sure did! Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy: http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2013/12/far-from-madding-crowd.html
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I sort of changed what I was doing – I really wanted to read to two of the books that I had on my spin list that did not get chosen, so I did read them. 😦 I didn’t read my spin book, but I did finish two books from my 50 book list.
Here they are:
Little Women http://quixoticmagpie.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-little-women.html
Ethan Frome http://quixoticmagpie.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-ethan-frome.html
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That’s cheating!! LOL
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I did finish it and it was wonderful. Here’s a link to my review: http://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-earth-by-emile-zola.html
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I did finish, and my spin book was Les Miserables, so I feel very proud of myself! Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy the book as much as I hoped.
Here’s my review http://tinylibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/les-miserables-by-victor-hugo.html
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Almost! A work in progress still,,,http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/the-brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor.html
The Brother’s K is 985 pages of small font. I think this book will also rollover into the readalong this weekend 🙂
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We’ll go easy on you in that case – it’s so long it counts as two books doesn’t it
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I did too! But Washington Square by Henry James was a bit of let-down! Here’s the link to my review – http://www.booksplease.org/2013/12/31/washington-square-by-henry-james/
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I sure did 🙂 I read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and oh! It was so good!
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Happy 2014, everyone. I read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte and enjoyed it more than I had anticipated. Here’s the link to my review:
http://mybookstrings.com/2013/12/18/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/
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Glad you enjoyed it, I’m really looking forward to getting to this one!
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Woohoo – I did! My spin book was Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell and it was a very enjoyable read! Here’s my thoughts:
http://bookishrealm.blogspot.fi/2013/12/cclub-16-cranford-by-elizabeth-gaskell.html
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i couldnt get excited by this one – much preferred North and South
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