Here’s a space to tell the club what you’re currently reading. You’re welcome to use the comments below.
No pressure, of course! But if you’re feeling social, here’s a space to tell us about your latest classic. As always, you are of course welcome to leave a link to your blog if you prefer to share there.
Twitter hashtag: #ccreadingupdate
– The Club
The Classics Club 
I’ve been reading some contemporary lit (adult & teen) with mixed feelings (loved The Invention of Wings and The Apple Tart of Hope) but the classics keep calling to me. I cant wait to get into Zoladdiction next week 🙂
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I’m working through “The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings” by Edgar Allan Poe. Enjoying it, but I think I’ll read a 20th Century classic next, if only to rediscover short sentences.
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Just finished reading Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of WIldfell Hall, really enjoyed it, as I have every other Brontë novel I’ve read. Now reading Vladimir Nabokov’s The Original of Laura, very intriguing.
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I just read the first two novels in CS Lewis’s ‘Space Trilogy’ although neither are on my Classics Club list. I like to alternate classics with modern novels so am presently about halfway through Winter of the World by Ken Follett. Ater that, I’ll be moving back to classics – probably du Maurier’s Rebecca next.
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I am currently reading “The Childhood Years of Bagrov’s Grandson” by Sergey Aksakov. It is an autobiographical story from the perspective of (you guessed it) Bagrov’s grandson. It was apparently ground-breaking at the time (the early 19th century). After finishing this, I’ll move on to some prize-winning novellas that I am very excited to read by Yury Bonderev.
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Reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a modern classic but on my Classics Club list since my son has read the series and I haven’t yet!
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I am about halfway through Old Fashion Girl- Louisa May Alcott.
Loving it so far!!!
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Ohh this is one I haven’t heard of before. Is it like Little Women?
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I’m about 100 pages from the end of Villette by Charlotte Bronte and am finding it such a slog! Ugh. So I’ve been taking a break with a current cozy mystery, and then next will be my Classics Club Spin title, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. I’m hoping that after a couple short reads I’ll be able to get back to Villette and finish it…
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I’m reading The Odyssey & Candide for present read-alongs, The Horse and his Boy for my C.S. Lewis Project, Frankenstein and The Idiot. Dragging along is Le Morte d’Arthur …….. Malory is ……… interesting ………
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Just a little light reading then …. 😉
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I’m struggling through my classics club spin, which was meant to be Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease, but I realised I remember hardly anything from the first book in his African Trilogy so am reading Things Fall Apart again!
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I’m (finally) reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, as well as Candide.
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I loved Candide when I read it for a college class. I still have the book (the awesome Penguin Deluxe Edition). I hope you’re enjoying it, Candiss!
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Kayla, can you tell me what you liked about Candide? I’m reading it too but while I enjoy it on a very simple level, I don’t enjoy it on more complex levels. It seems more like a rant by Voltaire, and while it’s interesting, it’s not particularly edifying. Have I missed something?
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Love, love, love ❤
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The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
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I was reading my Spin book but came to the realization that I really don’t care for classics, at least not at this moment in my life. 😦 So I’m switching to a review book.
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I recently finished reading Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (review coming soon). I am currently reading Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf for the Classics Spin and Beowulf.
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One of my favourite books! Interesting to hear what you thought about it 🙂
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Reading Tolkien’s Children of Húrin and Agatha Christie’s novel Curtain. Enjoying both so far. 🙂
I recently finished Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray and Anthony Trollope’s The Warden.
This is my review of Picture of Dorian Gray.
http://youmeandacupofteablog.blogspot.com/2014/03/book-review-picture-of-dorian-gray.html
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I loved The Picture of Dorian Gray!
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I really liked it as well 🙂
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After many of you saw my Classics list and mentioned really loving it, I jumped into The Railway Children by E. Nesbit and I’m about half way through it.
Everyone was right, it’s amazing!
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So glad you’re enjoying it. There’s also a wonderful BBC series from the 1980’s if you can still find it anywhere.
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I stumbled upon a PBS film I have yet to watch, but a BBC series sounds even better!
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The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper… it isn’t on my classic’s list, but I needed a good book, and found this one at the library. 😉 I am loving it almost as much as I loved The Last of the Mohicans. 😉
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I finished Surprised by Joy (C.S. Lewis) the other day (my review is here), and I’m poised to start John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government (although I’ll probably skip the first treatise and only read the second).
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I’m about 2/3 of the way through Les Miserables! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! (Just kidding, I’m actually really enjoying it. :-))
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Reading TALE of TWO CITIES. Never read before. . Trying more classics this year. And also reading I ALEX CROSS
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I’m currently between books… I just finished the Island of Doctor Moreau by H G Wells (my Spin book!) and am about to start a readalong for Madame Bovary but Gustave Flaubert.
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Re-reading Jane Eyre after 20+ years. So good!
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❤
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Rebecca by Dauphne de Maurier.
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Yay,Rebecca! One of my all-time favorites! I’m currently reading Jamaica Inn by du Maurier.
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I loved “Rebecca” as well. Would so like to read it again! 🙂
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I enjoyed Rebecca but found My Cousin Rachel a more engaging and satisfying story.
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Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Ahhh I’m halfway through The Brothers K for CC Spin #4. I’ve been slowed down by all the extra storylines & the urge to heavily edit some of the passages!!
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Great book 🙂
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1999.-Borislav Pekic
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