Hello, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Spin!
What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Friday, March 10th, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in March & April. (Details follow.) 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, re-reads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
On Friday, 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 May 1, 2017. We’ll check in here in May to see who made it the whole way and finished their 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, re-reads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before next Friday.
- Friday 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 May 1, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)
As usual, this is 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. Just play along with us and read a classic! 😛
So, today (or 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
- Gone With the Wind
- Ulysses
- 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 Friday, 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 May 1.
So, if (for example) we announce #2 — if the above list was your Spin List, you’d have to read Pride and Prejudice by May 1.
Make sense? As always, the prize is the reading experience. 🙂
When we announce the number next Friday, come back and tell us your spin title — weeee!
Anybody in? If so, you can link to your spin lists below. Happy week(end)!
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
– the Club
Well, I didn’t post my list in time but I had got it ready. So I’m going to carry on as if I had posted it. And here it is 🙂
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My spin book is Mrs. Bridge by Evan Connell.
http://abookloverforever.blogspot.com/
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I got mine posted in the nick of time! Here’s mine: http://www.truebookaddict.com/2017/03/the-classics-club-spin-15-ccspin.html
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Thanks for hosting this event! Here is my list https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/the-classics-spin-15/
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I’m sorry I posted the wrong link. Here is my link: https://classicbookshelf.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/the-classics-spin-15/?preview_id=1014&preview_nonce=c4f6df88b3&preview=true
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I need to get busy reading ones I stopped reading for a variety of reasons. Here is my list http://crafts4others.blogspot.com/2017/03/classics-club-blog-spin-book.html?m=1
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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these…hoping to kick start me again after an appalling year last year. Here’s my list: https://onereadersthoughts.com/2017/03/09/classic-club-spin-its-been-a-while/
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Well, since I joined the Classics Club, I am batting 1 for 3 with the spins. Hopefully, this time I will make it 2 for 4 and finish on time! I really enjoy these though and appreciate how it helps with my CC List.
https://relevantobscurity.com/classic-literature-2/classic-club-spin-15/
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Here’s my list: https://thebeckoninghills.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/classics-club-spin-15.html 🙂
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I have so loved taking part in these spins, but I am currently already reading my 50th and final book for my list! Happy spinning to everyone else 🙂
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wow! congratulations.
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Time to prepare your second list, then! 😀 😉
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Love the spins – thanks for organising them! Here’s my list…
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Looking forward to another spin. Here is my list of 20 classics to read. http://thecontentreader.blogspot.be/2017/03/time-for-classic-spin-15-with-classic.html
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This will be my first spin! I won’t be able to join in until April, so I’ve had to remove some of the biggest books from my list. https://thesteelreview.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/stuff-and-nonsense/
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Yay, I’m excited. I missed the last spin, but now I’m back. Here’s my list: https://mybookstrings.com/2017/03/06/time-to-take-another-classic-for-a-spin/
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Thank you for this new Spin! And congratulations on the new look – the blog is lovely! 🙂 Here is my list: https://theblankgarden.com/2017/03/06/the-classics-spin-15/
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Hello, I am in for my first spin)) Love your new design!
My list is here: http://julietyuk.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-classics-clubthe-classics-spin-15.html
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Got my post up after worrying over my list long and hard. I had the hardest time narrowing it down. I finally had to have my husband give me random numbers to help eliminate the last four books to cull my list down to twenty. Happy to be SPINNING again! Thanks for hosting this.
https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2017/03/classics-club-spin-time-again.html
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He, congrats on the new look!!
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Thanks!
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Since I can’t seem to make up my mind to read another classic at the moment, I thought I’d better join in! My post: https://simplerpastimes.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/classics-spin-15/
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great!
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Here’s mine! http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2017/03/classics-spin-15.html
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Yay! I finally get to join in on the fun!
Here’s my list!
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Woo!
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So excited!
I love the #ccspins with a love that knows no bounds!
I’ll be back with my list…
in the meantime ring the bells, spread the word, hooray, it’s ccspin time 😀
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Me too! Yaaaaay, it’s Spin time — and I have a shiny brand-new list to pick from!
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Awesome!
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Excellent!
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And here’s my list – please let me know if we share a book or author so I can add you to my links (I’m happy to move books around number-wise right up until Friday to share the reading experience 🙂
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/classics-club-spin-15.html
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Cool idea!
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Thanks for this new fun!
My list is here: https://wordsandpeace.com/2017/03/04/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-15/
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