All right, clubbers! Back in late September, we announced The Classics Spin #14, challenging you to read Book #1 on your spin list by December 1. Today is December 1!
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 finished my spin book, The Master and Margarita, rather more quickly than I expected. My review is here:
https://wordpress.com/stats/insights/ckostyn.wordpress.com
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ummm, that’s the wrong link, let’s try it again! While I finished it in October, I didn’t get around to blogging about it until today.
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I did finish my book before 1 December but have only just posted my review of Silas Marner – http://www.booksplease.org/2016/12/08/classic-club-spin-silas-marner-by-george-eliot/
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Yes, a week late, but here it is. My book was Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. It was a re-read, but high time I did. http://vincereview.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/little-women-by-louisa-may-alcott.html
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Still working on Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby. Only half-way through but loving it!
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Read ‘Portrait of a Lady’
…good, but not great.
https://ipsofactodotme.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/portrait-of-a-lady/
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I read my spin very quickly – way back in October – but it was a children’s classics – The Secret Garden – http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgson.html?m=1
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It turns out I really hate Faulkner. http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2016/12/classics-spin-light-in-august.html
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Oops, I have to read this one before the end of the year for another challenge. Might be difficult then? But ok, if it is bad, I will not force myself to read it. I read his “Sanctuary” some years ago, and although I was not over thrilled, it was ok.
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My list’s #1 was Plato’s Socratic dialogue Hippias Major.
https://chronolit.com/2016/10/02/77-hippias-major-by-plato/
Because I had read it that same weekend the number was announced, I decided instead to read the first fourteen titles on my list (this being the 14th spin run by the Classics Club). I did get 14 titles read : 12 Platos, the last play by Aristophanes, and The Anabasis by Xenophon as well as 3 books of the Old Testament so quite a successful couple of months. Of course losing my job in october gave me a bit more reading time 🙂
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Good going! Hope the perfect job comes along very soon.
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I reread Little Women. It is exactly the way I remembered it from childhood but I am still glad I read it as an adult. My review: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2016/12/little-womena-retrospective.html
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I read Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott: http://thebeckoninghills.blogspot.com/2016/12/review-rose-in-bloom.html
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Will finish mine later tonight: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I have just under 100 page to go and am loving it!
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One of my favorite classic books ever. I’ve read it multiple times.
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My favourite Austen! I will never be able to know whether it is because of Colin Firth who did such a great Darcy in the TV version. But, I still think the book is a great classic!
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I got Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada, but after giving that a try, I opted for his Look at the Harlequins!: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/day-1003-classics-club-spin-look-at-the-harlequins/
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My choice was a classic short story: Dostoyevsky’s White Nights, which I enjoyed much more than I had anticipated. I’ve always been rather daunted by the thought of Dostoyevsky and I hoped that by making my introduction to his work a short story I would feel less intimidated. It worked! Review will be posted…. eventually 🙂
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My spin fell on The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. I reviewed it here: https://wordsandpeace.com/2016/11/21/book-review-a-wizard-of-earthsea-classics-spin-14/
An amazing classic, that I’m amazed I waited so long before reading it, well, like so many other classics! I guess this is a common refrain around here, lol
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I just added it to my classics list based on your recommendation here! Thanks.
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For once I did finish my book, and in good time too. My number 1 was “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen. Here is my review.
http://thecontentreader.blogspot.be/2016/12/classic-spin-14-review.html
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I read Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. Here’s my post:
http://lakesidemusing.blogspot.com/2016/11/agnes-grey-by-anne-bronte.html
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My book was Passing by Nella Larsen – an excellent choice! Here’s my review…
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