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, October 3, 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 October & November. (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 December 1, 2016. We’ll have a check in here in December, 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 December 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 December 1.
So, if (for example) we announce #9 — if the above list was your Spin List, you’d have to read Richard III by December 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
My first spin list is here: https://acornerofcornwall.com/2016/10/02/my-first-classics-club-spin/
I wonder which title it will be!
LikeLike
Spin me a number, Classics Club! Here is my list: https://theblankgarden.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/the-classics-spin-14/
Happy reading, y’all! 🙂
LikeLike
I was just thinking it would be good to have another Spin!
Here’s my list:
http://www.booksplease.org/2016/10/02/classics-club-spin-4/
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thumbs up for #1
LikeLike
Finally decided on the strength of my last two successes and the need to push through some of the titles on my list, I will again jump on board. My challenge is a little different from suggested because I am reading my titles in chronological order, so to maintain that theme I will be reading all titles on my list up to and including the number announced on Monday. Many of the titles on my list are very short (50 pages or less) so it isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds … is it? Have a look!
https://chronolit.com/2016/10/01/another-classics-club-spin-2/
LikeLiked by 1 person
That is one seriously impressive list! Good luck 🙂
LikeLike
I’m in!
However we have gone away for the w/e so it’s too hard to add links right now. I will fix it all up when we get back to home base, so please let me know if we share a book & what no it is on your list & I’ll see what I can do 🙂
https://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/classic-club-spin-14.html?showComment=1475275419495&m=1#c4347010954270700467
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a great list! Some of my favourites on here 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m in for my first spin, so loads to choose from. Here’s my list…
LikeLiked by 2 people
woo hoo wodehouse and ERB on the same list!
LikeLike
Haha! I do like a bit of light stuff in amongst the heavies… and ERB is so much fun!!
LikeLike
Here’s my list: http://thebeckoninghills.blogspot.com/2016/09/classics-club-spin.html
LikeLike
What have I got to lose?
My List:
https://ipsofactodotme.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/classic-club-spin-14/
LikeLiked by 1 person
Okay, against my better judgement, I’m doing it! Here’s my sign-up post! http://cleoclassical.blogspot.ca/2016/09/classics-club-spin-14.html
LikeLike
here is my list, my first Spin!: https://wordsandpeace.com/2016/09/29/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-14/
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’m in! I only have seven books left — but I’m changing one (because it’s at the end of a series I haven’t read) and I might change one more. Is that cheating?
Anyway, here’s my list: http://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.de/2016/09/classics-spin-14-and-is-it-too-late-to.html
LikeLiked by 1 person
I am all in. These Spins are such a good idea because they put a little pressure on me 🙂
https://relevantobscurity.com/book-lists/classic-literature-2/classics-club-spin-14/
LikeLiked by 1 person
Laurie, I tried to comment on your post, but it looks like I can only comment if I have WordPress, Twitter or Facebook, of which I have none. 😦 I’m not sure if there’s another way, but i thought I’d let you know!
LikeLiked by 1 person
My list is here!
http://lakesidemusing.blogspot.com/2016/09/another-classics-club-spin.html
LikeLike
Here is my list, were I have several that I have previously started reading but never finished. http://crafts4others.blogspot.com/2016/09/books-i-have-chosen-for-latest-spin.html
LikeLike
Woohoo! I’ve only got 16 more titles on my list (and a deadline in less than 6 months, uh-oh…) so there are some repeats here. http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2016/09/classics-spin-14.html
LikeLike