All right, clubbers! Back in early February, we announced The Classics Spin #5, challenging you to read Book #20 on your spin list by April 2. Today is April 2!
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 read Love by Elizabeth von Arnim and really enjoyed it. http://piningforthewest.co.uk/2014/04/15/love-by-elizabeth-von-arnim/
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I finished my book with a week to spare – loved and hated The Bell Jar. Great starter for my Classics Club challenge: http://bit.ly/1kNuCNV
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I did not finish the book on my list, Emma Brown. I’m having problems right now with getting into classics.
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I finished it with a week to spare and loved it – Emile Zola’s L’Assommoir. Absolutely brilliant book. Just haven’t got around to reviewing yet
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I finished the book (Trumpeter of Krakow) April 3 but haven’t reviewed it yet. I’m just a teensy bit past the deadline! It’s a children’s book so really I have no excuse.
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I finished my book with a few days to spare, but haven’t got the review up yet. I had to read Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was quite enjoyable, but not as good as Treasure Island.
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I did finish reading the book 2 weeks prior to the deadline, then had the post 75% finished by April 2, but got so busy I couldn’t complete the blog post until this morning…boo! 😦 But, the good news is that I found reading The Stranger by Albert Camus to be quite rewarding… See what you think: http://books-n-music.blogspot.com/2014/04/classics-club-5-stranger-by-albert-camus.html. Anxious to read everyone’s reviews!
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Yes, I did finish my book – Ethan from by Edith Wharton and I loved it. I wrote about it, see – http://www.booksplease.org/2014/03/05/ethan-frome-by-edith-wharton/
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Oh dear! The title is Ethan Frome !!!
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Yes! I finally finished a spin book! Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Have not reviewed it on my blog, but did give a starred review on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/851474777
This book truly gave another side of Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester. Not feeling quite as sympathetic toward him as I did previously.
Looking forward to the next spin!
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I can’t believe it! After thinking that there was no way that I could make the deadline, I not only made it, but beat it. It makes me feel so much better because I still haven’t read my last spin book. In fact, I also finished Plethora’s spin book too, so that’s two done.
Here is my review of The Seven Storey Mountain
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Yes I finished Sapphira and the Slave girl by Willa Cather – I loved it.
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I finished No Name and really loved it. Here is my review: http://www.litnerd.co.uk/2014/04/classics-spin-5-no-name-by-wilkie.html#.Uz0WwfldVqU
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My Spin review is up on my blog. I read C.S.Forester’s Captain Hornblower book The Happy Return which is one of my vintage Penguins from my massive collection of Penguins. A good read too and I didn’t think it would be.
http://travellinpenguin.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/the-spin-book-review-cs-forester-happy.html
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It’s not the end of the day yet! Book and post are done. I read Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Munro.
http://loniseye.blogspot.ca/2014/04/lives-of-girls-and-women.html
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I finished my spin book (The Professor’s House) and wrote about it here: http://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-professors-house.html
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I didn’t finish the book; although I fully intend to. Still I thought I would do the book a solid and actually post today. So my discussion of Fardorougha the Miser is here: http://www.eclectic-eccentric.com/2014/04/fardorougha-and-i.html
I also really want to know if anyone has read this book.
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I am new on this site, but I am passionate reader, today I read Faust, few weeks ago I read Ulysses.Greetings.
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It was a bit of a cheat but I finally finished The Odyssey – round of applause please !!
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/the-odyssey-finale.html
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Hurray for Brona!
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I’m so close to finishing! Unfortunately end of term craziness has seriously cut into my reading time so I’m aiming for the weekend instead!
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My book was supposed to be Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, but I couldn’t get the library’s copy in time. (It was overdue and still had another patron’s hold before mine.) So I substituted another Carver collection from the same period of his writing – Cathedral.
I wrote about it here: http://readthegamut.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/book-review-cathedral-collection-by-raymond-carver/
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I finished my book super early! It was The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, and you can find my musings here:
http://ravens-and-writingdesks.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-island-of-doctor-moreau.html
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I finished my book, The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson. It was great! This is my first book for the club. A great introduction.
http://whatmeread.wordpress.com/tag/the-long-ships/
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Woo-hoo! Finally, a ccspin success story for me! I finished mine back in early March: http://toofond.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/i-capture-the-castle-by-dodie-smith/
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My classics spin book was Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I wrote a creative review. http://exploringclassics.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/review-of-mrs-dalloway/
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I did! I read Bless Me, Ultima and it was fine, but I think I enjoyed it more the first time. http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2014/04/spin-title-bless-me-ultima.html
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I finished my spin book (“Cranford” by Elizabeth Gaskell). I lucked out – most of the other books on my list were of the “I’ll get to them eventually but they sort of terrify me” variety, so we’ll see if the next spin challenges me more.
http://legicomp.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/cranford-by-elizabeth-gaskell.html
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Oh, I have that book on my shelf – unread as yet. I’ve never read anything by Gaskell, so I’m a bit hesitant…
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Don’t be! Although I’d start with “North and South” first if I were you. I love “Wives and Daughters” but it’s really long and much more of a commitment. Whatever you choose, I hope you like her work – I particularly love all of the characters in her books.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll tack it onto my summer TBR!
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DNF. Sigh. I meant to, but I *hated* Emma the first time I read it and I was all caught up into loving Trollope and I totally didn’t finish. Correction, I didn’t even start!!!
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Yes I finished Around the World in Eighty Days by Alexandre Dumas. You can find my post here: http://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/the-classics-club-around-the-world-in-eighty-days/ 🙂
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Sorry! By Jules Vernes I’ve got Dumas on the mind after watching The Musketeers.
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I finished, although it took some effort. Siddharta is now officially my least favorite book by Hermann Hesse. Here’s the link to my review: http://mybookstrings.com/2014/03/24/siddharta/
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I finished mine! It was probably my least favourite from the list so far, but at least it’s off the list now
http://ted-reader.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/classics-club-spin-blind-assassin-adult.html
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I did finish my book, although it broke my heart into teeny, tiny pieces, and wrote about it:
Still anxious about what the next 100 years will bring.
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