All right, clubbers! Back in early March, we announced The Classics Spin #17, challenging you to read Book #3 on your spin list by April 30.
Guess what? Today is April 30!
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 
Unfortunately, I didn’t finish my spin book, Shirley by Charlotte Brontë. My post here
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Finally posted about my Spin book, One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes. I loved it. https://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.de/2018/05/classics-spin-17-one-fine-day-by-mollie.html
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I did! I got Persuasion and it was a reread for me but I loved it more this 2nd time than the 1st! I briefly wrote about it here: https://fanciedfreedom.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/our-monthly-minutes-april/
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While I haven’t finished it, I am loving my spin result: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. 🙂
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I did read my classic spin, and I did love it. Persuasion. The book that made me a Jane Austen’s fan. https://silviacachia.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/persuasion-or-the-story-of-a-reluctant-jane-austens-fan/
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That’s my favorite Austen novel!
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The Spin machine was kind to me and picked one of the books I really wanted to read: J. F. Powers’ Morte D’Urban. (1963 National Book Award winner.) I waited to nearly the end of the period before starting it and then wondered why. (And wondered why I hadn’t read it years before.) I really liked it. My take is here:
http://reesewarner.blogspot.ca/2018/04/j-f-powers-morte-durban.html
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I am ashamed to say I didn’t even start mine until April 30, and it’s less than 200 pages long! I thought May 1 was the posting date and I’d be able to zip through it at the last minute. I was wrong. Well, better late than never!
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I used too always finish my homework way ahead of time. Well, I have NOT finished my spin book!
I was reading another classic when we got the spin, The Bridge on the Drina, which dragged somewhat, and I wanted to finish it before launching into my spon book: so i’m only at 43% in The Face of Another by Kobo Abe, though I enjoy it a lot,
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I just joined the Classics Challenge so this was not only my first spin, it was also the first book read off my TBR. After a bit of a rocky start, I read the German classic Effie Briest. Here is my attempt at a review: http://readerofacertainage.com/2018/04/26/effie-briest-classics-challenge-1/
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My review of The Moonstone is here: https://mounttoberead.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-moonstone-by-wilkie-collins.html
Enjoyable enough read.
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A mixed bag for me with Far From the Madding Crowd 🐝
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.jp/2018/04/far-from-madding-crowd-by-thomas-hardy.html?m=1
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Aw, I LOVED this one. I suggest the movie for its costumes and cinematography?
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Read all about my experience with Updike’s Rabbit, Run here: http://www.truebookaddict.com/2018/05/the-classics-spin-17-updikes-rabbit.html
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I read Kindred by Octavia Butler. I am not sure if this is officially a “classic” but is certainly worth consideration. It is not quite 50 years old. Kindred Review
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I’m still working on mine, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I’m really glad I had the incentive to read it though I’ve not finished it yet.
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Invisible Man is on my CC list. Are you enjoying it?
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I attempted Gone with the Wind, but I fear it wasn’t for me. Oh, well – better luck next spin!
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Brave to keep putting it in your spin. (I know I will probably love it, but I’m waiting for the right mood for it.)
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I finished the charming children’s classic Heidi, and wrote about it here: https://dwellinpossibilityblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/classics-club-spin-17-review-heidi-by-johanna-spyri/#more-18570
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I really enjoyed my spin book. Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor.
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That’s one I want to read too!
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Finished Propertius’ Love Elegies
“Never, no matter how long, does love last long enough”
Review at chronolit.com
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On the very last day, finished and reviewed (well, sort of reviewed), Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
ireadthatinabook.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/classics-club-spin-nights-at-the-circus/
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I have this on my shelves but have been delaying reading it till I was in the right frame of mind. I’ll pop over and read your review now!
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It’s definitely worth a read but waiting for the right mood makes sense, Carter can be a bit much…
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Right down to the wire!! My blog post is up today. Anne Bronte’s, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Soooo good 🙂
https://relevantobscurity.com/2018/04/30/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/
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I had a 1935 classic, a novel in the series about the Chalet School, a boarding school for girls located in Austria before war erupted in Europe. Great fun, and reviewed here: https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/chalet/
Now wondering what the next spin will be! 🙂
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I finished my book, Far From the Madding Crowd, and working on the review. Don’t think it will be out today but hopefully in the next couple of days!
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I read a Korean classic: And So Flows History, a 3-generational family epic that covers about 1895 – 1945. But not like any family epic you’ve ever read, nope. And it turned out to be surprisingly timely, what with the big news in Korea right now! http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2018/04/cc-spin-and-so-flows-history.html
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I did not finish, but my book was 900 pages long! I read as much as I could take, more than 400 pages. Here is the link to my review of Le Morte d’Arthur:
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I wish I could say I did. My spin was George Orwell’s 1984 and I just simply did not want to read any dystopian lit. I tried, but couldn’t.
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That was my spin book last time. Bit of a downer to finish 2017 with.
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When we don’t feel for a book or genre, there’s no way around it, ha ha ha.
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