All right, clubbers! Back in early March, we announced The Classics Spin #15, challenging you to read Book #12 on your spin list by May 1.
Guess what? Today is May 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, if/when you write about your book.
As always, the prize is the reading experience. Details here.
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
– the Club
The Classics Club 
For once I did finish my book, “Sweet Bird of Youth” by Tennessee Williams. Yay! You find a short review here http://thecontentreader.blogspot.be/2017/05/classic-spin-15.html
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I promised you my review for today, here it is: https://wordsandpeace.com/2017/05/03/book-review-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/
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I finished mine too! It’s Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. I loved it and will write my review soon.
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I read James Michener’s first book, Tales of the South Pacific. He won the Pulitzer for it in 1948 (47) and I think it has too many problems for today’s readers with racism and sexism. I was pretty disappointed, but I finished it. Here is my review: Tales of the South Pacific
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Tried to comment on your blog, but it wouldn’t accept my wordpress ID for some reason. I have found that a problem with other sites using your blogging tool. Anyway, I said that Tales of the South Pacific wasn’t my favorite Michener either, but that his books got even worse as he got older and let his graduate students do all the research, so it wasn’t the worst. Tales is an early book, but anything after The Covenant is pretty bad.
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My spin book was Diary of a Nobody by George and Wheedon Grossmith. Haven’t got around to doing the review yet but I enjoyed this tale of a man who tries so hard to be a man of status but keeps making a mess of everything.
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Well I’ll be the one who hasn’t come up to the mark! The positive? I have at least started The Good Companions which was my spin this time around. For some reason I had it firmly in my mind that this was a short book. It’s not. I came very close to giving up after just a few pages but actually found myself hooked in so now I know I will definitely finish it – just not sure when! And there will be a review – eventually 🙂
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I did finish – at midnight on 30th April! And I actually rather enjoyed Lorna Doone after a long period when I thought I was going to hate it. Unfortunately I’ve unexpectedly had to take a week off blogging, so my post will be late and I won’t get round everyone else’s till next week, but I’m looking forward to seeing how everyone got on… 😀
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After your lukewarm response to the beginning of the book, I’m happy to hear that it improved!
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Lorna Doone was one of my favorite books as a girl, but I must have read an abridged version because I tried re-reading it as an adult and couldn’t do it.
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I found the first third or so really hard going, but it picked up after that. Incredibly long for its content though – I reckon today he’d have been forced to edit out a couple of hundred pages at least!
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Oh, I love Lorna Doone.
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I kind of finished my book – Out of Africa. I loved parts of it but also skimmed quite a bit. A very mixed response – http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/out-of-africa-by-karen-blixen.html?m=1
Have come down with a nasty change of season lurgy – will pop by to read all the reviews when my head feels less like cottonwool!
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I was greatly disappointed by Out of Africa when I read it last summer. For one thing it didn’t have the material that was used for the movie by the same name.
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Enough time had gone by since I had seen the movie (30 yrs!!) that I couldn’t really remember much except the small plane and the beautiful scenery.
I was expecting a memoir/autobiography that had a narrative of sorts, but it was just a collection of anecdotes turned into short stories.
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After reading it and finally finishing it, I went back and rewatched the movie. It is slow, too.
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Blogger doesn’t like my WordPress ID and I long ago forgot my Google password, so I am never able to leave comments on your post. I tried to leave you a comment saying that my problem with Out of Africa is I tried to read it right after the movie came out. The movie was so lush and atmospheric, but it is based more on Dinesen’s life than on the book, I think.
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Yes blogger can be like that 😔
I could have been with the book & movie being quite different, but I was expecting a narrative story, not a collection of anecdotes. It was hard to feel any connection to place or persons as a result, despite some lovely descriptions.
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I finished yesterday and didn’t realize I was beating the deadline. Cool. Review soon of The Hunter by Richard Stark.
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My spin fell on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I have written a review that will go live on 5/3. Here is a snippet: VERDICT: A classic scifi novel raising the important question of what makes us ultimately human.
Be sure to visit http://wordsandpeace.com on Wed to read my full review
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A book thats been on my radar for many years but have always hesitated to read…..
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My classic spin was The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Connan Doyle. It was very enjoyable and I’m glad that I finally read it. https://classicbookshelf.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-by-arthur-conan-doyle/?preview_id=1021&preview_nonce=1fa0a9e1ab&preview=true
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neat! right now, I’m listening to all of Sherlock Holmes, enjoying it a lot, with Simon Prebble as the fabulous narrator
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My spin was The Moorland Cottage, by Elizabeth Gaskell. I enjoyed it! https://afondnessforreading.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/the-moorland-cottage/
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You all had awesome spins!!
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I read Middlemarch. Here is my link: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/day-1073-middlemarch/
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Sir Walter Scott — The Heart of Midlothian! It was really good (worth the 80-page slog it took to get the story going) http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2017/05/spin-title-heart-of-midlothian.html
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I read my first book by P. G. Wodehouse. It was funny… Here’s the link to my review: http://wp.me/p3U7CO-Sk
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I also really enjoy Wodehouse
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I read A Study In Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes mystery. It was really interesting. I’m excited to read more! http://loniseye.blogspot.ca/2017/05/a-study-in-scarlet.html
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cool! s I tyoed higher up, I’m currently listening to the whole Sherlock Holmes, with Simon Prebble as the narrator. I really enjoy this experience
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I haven’t tried that narrator, but I’m really loving the Sherlock collection on Audible narrated by Stephen Fry. In terms of audiobooks, he’s probably best known as the narrator for the UK editions of the Harry Potter series. He also narrated the first two Paddington Bear novels and he’s a real favorite of mine. The Sherlock collection doesn’t include every single story, but I think 62 hours will keep my plenty busy! (If you’re in the UK, there the collection has 72 hours since the rights are different there I believe and more stories are included.)
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I’ve listened to another book narrated by Stephen Fry. He is really good!
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My spin was My Antonia by Willa Cather and I really enjoyed the read. Glad I got it! Here’s my review
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I enjoyed that one a lot
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I did finish my book – for the first time ever! However, I must admit I didn’t play by the rules. I did my own spin on the spin and put up a list of books from my Classics Club list and asked my blog readers to vote on what I would read next. Charlotte’s Web was the winner and I actually wrote about it too, so I’ll call that a win 🙂 https://bucklingbookshelves.blogspot.com/2017/03/reading-charlottes-web-as-adult.html
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OMG, I just discovered Charlotte’s Web as well, and so so loved it!
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Glad you found it too as an adult! I very much enjoyed it.
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A book worthy of a re-read if ever there was a book that should be reread.
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