Good morning, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Spin for any who are interested. What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, by next Monday, June 6, list your choice of any twenty books you’ve left to read from your Classics Club list — in a separate post.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in June & July. (Details follow.) So, try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
Next Monday, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by August 1, 2016. We’ll have a check in here in August, to see who made it the whole way and finished the spin book.
Do you have that?
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Try to challenge yourself: list five you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog by next Monday.
- Monday morning, we’ll announce a number from 1-20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted, and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce.
- The challenge is to read that book by August 1, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)
Ha ha! 😀 All for fun, and of course, the “rules” are, as always, very relaxed. Really, you can make up your own rules. We don’t actually care. 😛
So, today (any time this week) at your blog, you might post something like:
My Book Spin list for the Classics Club –
- Jane Eyre
- Pride and Prejudice
- Crime and Punishment
- Oliver Twist
- CLARISSA (yikes!)
- Gone With the Wind
- Ulysses (Ugh!)
- Emerson’s Collected Essays
- Richard III
- The Iliad
- Jude the Obscure
- Leaves of Grass
- The Monk
- Dracula
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Sense & Sensibility
- The Tempest
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Paradise Lost
- Pilgrim’s Progress
(Obviously, YOU choose what books you want to list, in what order.)
Next Monday, we will announce a number from 1 through 20. When we announce it, go to your Spin list. Find that number, and read the book listed for that number by August 1.
So, if (for example) we announce #9 — if the above list was your Spin List, you’d have to read Richard III by August 1.
Make sense? Don’t get bogged down by rules and details! Free free to rebelliously break the rules at your leisure.
As always, the prize is the reading experience. 🙂
When we announce the number next Monday, come tell us your title — ha!
Anybody in? If so, you can link to your spin lists below. Happy week!
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
– the Club
I’m getting behind on my list so it’s a good time for a spin! https://emeraldcitybookreview.com/2016/06/classics-club-spin.html
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I’m looking forward to join this event here is my list: https://classicbookshelf.wordpress.com/2016/06/06/the-classics-spin-13/
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I still need to write my post for the last spin (oops!), but since these always get me to read something I might not otherwise have on my radar, I’m in again: https://simplerpastimes.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/weeks-end-notes-28-of-summer-reading-plans/
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I’m in! Here is my Spin List:
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My third spin!
https://relevantobscurity.com/book-lists/classic-literature-2/classics-club-spin-13/
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here is my list, http://crafts4others.blogspot.com/2016/06/classic-spin-13-list.html
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My list: http://thebeckoninghills.blogspot.com/2016/06/classics-club-spin-again.html
Good luck everyone! 🙂
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Just composed my list, I’m excited for this one.
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This is my spin list:
http://thereadingarmchair.blogspot.gr/2016/06/the-classics-club-spin-13.html
Happy spinning, everyone! 🙂
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Ack, I’m on a trip and only have my tablet! Will be tricky to write a post. I’ll have to see what Ican do….
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OK, here’s my list: http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2016/06/classics-spin-13.html
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OK count me in, and again I will try and read up to the number announced e.g. if the number is 14, I;ll try to read books up to and including 14 on my list. Since the next 20 titles are classical Greek plays, each one only takes an evening to read, so I think I can do this even if the dreaded 20 rolls out. My list is at https://chronolit.com/2016/06/03/another-classics-club-spin/
Like Brona, the heavy rain forecast for eastern Australia this weekend might give me a chance to clear the decks and be ready for the challenge
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wahoo – I know what I’m doing this (predicted wild, wet and woolly) weekend in Sydney now 🙂
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My list – http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/ccspin-13.html
Happy Spinning one and all 🙂
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Seeing how I haven’t yet read my last Spin book, I think I’ll sit this one out. 😦
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Here’s my spin list: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/classics-spin-13/
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I am definitely in! Off to make my list now 🙂
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Hey, clubbers!
Here is my Spin List: https://theblankgarden.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/the-classics-spin-13/
Happy reading to you all! 🙂
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