We promised you a spin number this morning, and here it is! Your Spin Number is –
8.
If you joined the game last week, find number 8 on your Spin List! That’s the title you are challenged to read by May 2, 2016. We’ll toss a post up on February 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 May 2. But that’s not mandatory or anything. If you want to, though, have at it! 🙂
Check in below if you played. What’s your #8 title? Are you glad, hesitant, excited about your title? Do tell!
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
– the Club
The Classics Club 
Hope it’s not too late to do this… I just joined and set up my 50 list, and the 20 list.
My #8 book is Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
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My #8 book on the list was Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. I’ve done a little research and now I am pretty psyched about reading it. Bonus, it was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1921 AND if was written by a woman, other challenges I am participating in this year. Check out my intro post, please. The Age of Innocence
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Germinal. I’m excited!
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I got The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Sounds like a really good read. 🙂
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I read this last year for my spin and absolutely loved it. It is long so get going. I had to read over 100 pages of it a week.
My spin book: The Age of Innocence
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I got The Beautiful and Damned. I have really enjoyed the two books of Fitzgerald’s that I’ve read before (The Great Gatsby & Tender is the Night), so I’m looking forward to this one 🙂
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I got Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which was one of the ones I was looking forward to.
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I don’t think I have ever read this book. I hope it is as good as I think it is.
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I got The Knights by Aristophanes 🙂
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I’ll be reading Ella Cheever Thayer’s proto-“online” (read: telegraphy) romance from 1879, Wired Love. I’m really excited for this one, despite romance being outside my comfort zone.
https://readthegamut.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/the-lucky-spin-number/
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I’m going to tackle my first James Joyce – The Dubliners – it’s slim at least 🙂
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/cc-spin-12.html
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My lucky book is “Darkness at Noon” by Arthur Koestler. This will be a reread, so I already know that it’s relatively short.
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I was secretly hoping for a Bronte. And look: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall! This will be a first read for me and I am really looking forward to it.
Congratulations to all the participants of this spin. See you in May if not before 🙂
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I’m an Anne Bronte fan after reading this one – you probably will be too 🙂
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I loved The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It is my favourite Brontë book after Wuthering Heights. I am sure you will enjoy it.
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Good to know. I am looking forward to it!
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I got Oblomov by Goncharov. I’ve had it for years and bought it because it is a lovely edition. I haven’t a clue what it’s about, but it’s 515pages long!
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I’ll be reading an old green Virago Modern Classic: Deborah, by Esther Kreitman: https://www.instagram.com/p/BCp1gn-nqHQ/?taken-by=readwomen
🙂
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I got Pedro Páramo, about which I know almost nothing, not even how long it is–don’t know whether to be intimdated or not! Happy reading to all those participating!
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“A Prayer for Owen Meany”, actually the first John Irving book I’ll be reading – have I got a treat in store?
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I’ve The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire. I remember them as being a little quirky and it would seem the Irving has a thing for bears!
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I actually really like Prayer for Owen Meany. I read it after watching the movie Simon Birch.
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I got THE SCARLET LETTER! I’m pretty excited – I’ve been looking for the time to read this book for years. Never got around to it in high school.
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I’ll be reading Treasure Island! I have an unabridged, illustrated edition I’ve been meaning to read since I got it — excited to finally dive in 🙂
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Oh, that’s a fun book – I read it last January, and it really flew by. Enjoy!
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Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens is my Spin book. I wish I was looking forward to it more, it’s a book I’ve been dreading.
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It’s quite good I think. One of my favorite of Dickens novels. Sure it’s Dickens so it will be dense but it’s truly enjoyable. After you’re done reading it definitely watch the 2008 miniseries which might be even better than the book. 😉
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Let it ‘go down to the wire’. Just 1 hr before deadline. Entered the @ourclassicsclub Spin # 12. Book is: Sappho: Stung by Love Poems OMG!
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I got The Hunchback of Notre Dame – I think it’s the book I’ve been dreading the most. I’ll give it another try.
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Very best of luck. I tried to get started but just couldn’t get past the first 50. I’m sure its a great read once the author lets you into the story.
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I’ll be reading Gaskell as well. The Spin gave me North and South. Yay.
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North and South is wonderful! Also the BBC adaptation is good too.
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Good to know! Thank you.
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Agree on both counts!
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Yay! I did not like it, but most people seem to. Maybe because Elizabeth Gaskell is not one of my favourite authors. And I don’t really know why, since a lot of people like her. I am advised to read “Wifes and Daughters”! Maybe this will do it for me. Although I have started it and did not come too far!
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I got Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. I might need to forget the deadline. 😉
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I’ve heard it’s really good (I’m putting it on my tentative list for my next 50 Classics Club selections!)
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I’ll be reading ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ by Gaston Leroux, which means I’ll also have an excuse to re-watch the movie when I’m done. 🙂
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I got Wives & Daughters by Gaskell. I’m quite excited!
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I’ll be reading Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Excited! Already have it in my bag as I head out for the day.
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I really enjoyed that one, I wish I was reading it again.
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Wives & Daughters is one of my all-time favorite classics! Good spin pick!
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