We promised you a spin number this morning, and here it is! Your Spin Number is –
Unlucky 13!!
😛 If you joined the game last week, find number 13 on your Spin List! That’s the title you are challenged to read by January 5, 2015. We’ll toss a post up on January 5 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 January 5. But that’s not mandatory or anything. If you want to, though, have at it! 🙂
Check in below if you played. What’s your #13 title? Are you glad, hesitant, excited about your title? Do tell!
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
– the Club
My #13 was Plato’s Republic, and I just finished it and reviewed it today. Phew! Here’s my review. I wouldn’t exactly recommend it, but I wouldn’t warn anyone away from it, either.
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I’ll be reading Roots by Alex Haley. I’ve seen the mini-series so I’m excited to finally read this one.
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My is The Watsons by Jane Austen. I should be able to do that, though reading has been put on the back-burner while I NaNo through November. 🙂
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Ooohhh…Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Can’t wait!!
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And, thinking we were to review this by January 1st! (Today!) I am so thrilled to have been wrong…I have until this next Monday, January 5th! Yay!! Though I did just post a review of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck which I just reread after 40+ years! (http://books-n-music.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-truly-timeless-classic.html) Such a masterpiece!
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Ooh, I’m happy about my number 13 – The Handmaid’s Tale! My first spin! 🙂
http://ofdragonsandhearts.com/2014/11/classics-spin/
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I’m reading Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. I’ll be doing a read-along, which will be announced with all the details tomorrow (Wednesday). http://thereadingwench.com/2014/11/11/the-classics-club-spin-8-and-the-winner-is/
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My number 13 – The Invisible Man by HG Wells. I think I can cope with that over Christmas!
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Donna Tartt’s The Secret History…a modern classic. I’ll take it! 🙂
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I got Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Looking forward to this!
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Arthur Miller– “The Crucible.” Not bad.
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i got the blind assassin by Margaret Atwood- my first one by her!
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Wow, this soiunds like so much fun. I’m just getting into this blog so I’ll lurk a bit longer and then figure out how to jump in and participate. Fun fun fun. Happy reading all.
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I hope that you’re able to participate in the next spin! As you can see, they’re lots of fun!
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The Spin is always lots of fun. Hope you can join us the next time around.
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For unlucky 13, I got the rather apt Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh 🙂
A lovely slim volume that will be much easier to pack this Christmas, than last year’s chunkster!!
Good luck one and all
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/classic-club-spin-8.html
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Am rather envious of the titles some of you ended up with. I got Henry James Washington Square/Daisy Miller. My only other experience with James was Portrait of a Lady which was S..L..O..W
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My sympathies! I know he’s not an easy read. I didn’t put any of his books on my present classics list but plan to add at least one of his to my second. And then I’ll know an experience of dread if I get it on a spin list. Sorry, Henry!
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Very happy with my spin result – Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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You lucky duck, you!
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Looking forward to it.
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Fantastic! My first Shakespeare reading; Richard III. Know what to do over Christmas in other words!
Lisbeth @ The Content Reader
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I feel lucky! My #13 is “Revolutionary Road” by Richard Yates
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I got My Antonia by Willa Cather…(Twiddling my thumbs!) http://madcaphat.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/a-spining-book-and-a-swinging-song/
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Heavenali is hosting Cather reading week in early Dec – a perfect match?
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Thanks for the heads up Brona….I will for sure tag along with Ali…truly a perfect match!
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Awesome! **** happy dance ***
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aw, I really liked My Anatonia- hope you do too!
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Thanks Hillary…I am all of excited now with all the good words everybody has about this book!
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I’m most definitely enthused about my Lucky 13 SPIN Book!
Read Jorie’s wicked happy response
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I’m glad to read a German author: Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada. For me it’s a lucky 13!
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Enjoy! I might have to squeeze it into German Lit Month now, since I got a different book in the spin. 🙂
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It’s Gulliver’s Travels for me! I’m slightly intimidated. Should I do some research beforehand? Didn’t Swift have a not-so-obvious underlying message? Help! 🙂
http://cleoclassical.blogspot.ca/2014/11/classics-club-spin-8-and-winner-is.html
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I got The Age of Innocence.
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Awesome book…one of my all time favourites!! Hope you enjoy it as well!!
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Thank you 🙂
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Same here
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Yay!
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I got The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. Can’t wait to start reading it once NaNoWriMo finishes up. 🙂
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I got Shirley by Charlotte Brontë. I am a little daunted.
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I avoided Shirley for years but when I finally read it I loved it! Hope you do too.
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Thank you Lory 🙂
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I got Nathaniel Hawthorn’s The House of the Seven Gables. Seems fitting, since I just blogged about The Scarlet Letter this morning: http://marissabaker.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/the-scarlet-letter/
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I got Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.I’ve been interested in reading this for awhile. 🙂
http://youmeandacupofteablog.blogspot.com
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Doh.. I totally meant to do this again.
Guess I’ll just commit myself to reading one of my classics.. I’ve been slacking. 😦
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I got The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. Very happy with it…
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I got Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, which I know little about but would love to read. Pretty painless for my first spin!
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oh!! I read Katherine Mansfield couple of months back and absolutely loved it!! Bliss is brilliant and so are the other tales…have fun!!
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