Hello, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Wednesday 1st August 2018, create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List.
You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the month.
Try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you have been putting off, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favourite author, re-reads, ancients, non-fiction, books in translation — whatever you choose.)
On Wednesday 1st August, 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 31st August, 2018. We’ll check in here then to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
What’s Next?
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Wednesday 1st August.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 31st August.
This is meant to be a fun, social way to read another book from your classics club list. We’re very relaxed about how you set it up, we simply want you to read more classics!
Sometime this week, at your blog, you might post something like:
My Book Spin List for the Classics Club –
- Jane Eyre
- The Inferno
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Oliver Twist
- Clarissa
- Gone With the Wind
- Don Quixote
- Testament of Youth
- Richard III
- The Iliad
- Jude the Obscure
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The Master and Margarita
- Dracula
- The Home and the World
- Sense & Sensibility
- Madame Bovary
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Antigone
- The Tale of Genji
(Obviously, YOU choose what books YOU want to list, in what order.)
Next Wednesday?
We will announce a number from 1 through 20. When we announce it, go to your Spin list. Find that number, read (and hopefully, review) the book listed for that number by 31st August.
So, if (for example) we announce #14, and if the above list was your Spin List, you’d have to read Dracula.
The prize, of course, is the reading experience 🙂
When we announce the number next Wednesday, come back and tell us your spin title.
Who’s in?
Add the link for your spin list in the linky below and join in the discussion.
Hashtag: #ccspin
I haven’t had time to stop by and welcome the new hosts…so WELCOME! And thank you for carrying on this wonderful club. Love the spins even though I don’t always participate or finish…but I’m always up for a try. 🙂
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I reeeeeeeally love Spins and I vote for quarterly, too. Or at least 3 if you plan other book events.
https://relevantobscurity.com/2018/07/30/classics-club-spin-18/
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http://youmeandacupofteablog.blogspot.com/2018/07/classics-club-spin-july-2018.html
Here’s my list! Excited to do another spin! I barely have twenty to put on the list now! Wow!
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This is my first spin. Here’s my list: http://carolsnotebook.com/2018/07/30/the-classics-club-spin-18/
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I’m in and looking forward to it. https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2018/07/29/classics-club-spin-number-18/
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Unless I get one of the short books on my list, it could be quite the challenge for me to be finished by the end of August, but count me in! (And of course, I’m hoping for the longest book I have listed…) https://simplerpastimes.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/a-classics-spin-for-summer/
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My first ever spin…here’s my list. https://tinyurl.com/ybull66k
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Love the spins – here’s my list https://wp.me/p3NfGl-2Zm
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I’m glad to be back after a very long hiatus. My list is here: http://www.notesinthemargin.org/weblog/2018/07/27/the-classics-spin-18/
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Glad to have you back Mary. I tried to leave a comment on your blog, but it blocked me.
I read The Magnificent Ambersons for my very first spin & it was truly magnificent – lots of other great reads on your list too 🙂
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Hi Mary. I tried to leave a comment on your blog, but it seems I’m behind a proxy (who knew), and was blocked. Anyway, we share Watership Down – different spot though.
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Here’s my list! https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2018/07/27/another-classics-club-spin/
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So excited! Link is in linky but I’ll add it here too. I will freely admit, with only a month to go and with summer reading’s last throws plus getting ready for back to school, I eschewed all but one of my longest books on my list for this one. Hoping for anything but number 20!
https://mounttoberead.blogspot.com/2018/07/classics-club-spin-18.html
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Glad you’re doing the Spin!
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My first CC Spin! Exciting! Spin me a wondrous spin, oh wise Spinners.
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It’s our first spin on the other side of the wheel as well!
I hope we spin wisely & well 😁
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Woohoo! Also, I can’t believe you only gave us a month when I’m going to be GONE for a week http://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2018/07/classics-club-spin-18.html
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Never happy 😂
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Nice list! I’ll post mine on Friday.
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Yippee! Another SPIN. I’m in. I hope you guys publicize a schedule for upcoming SPINS, too, so we can plan ahead…say four or five a year?
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That’s one of the things I wanted to know, was how many spins a year would be a good/reasonable/manageable number for everyone to do (given that we’d also like to do other book related events as well).
We plan to put up a calendar for the NY.
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I like 4 as a manageable number…
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I second quarterly
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I’d like to see a quarterly schedule for spins too, please, to include August (a good time to get stuck in!) — and thus implying November, February and May as the other spin months…
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Hurrah! Back soon with my list! 😀
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I’ve scheduled a post for the day before the spin, listing my choices. 😊
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And here it is: https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/going-for-a-spin/
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wOOt wOOt! I’m in and linked-up!
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🙂
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Looking forward to taking part in the Classic Spin this time
http://islandbookshelf.blogspot.com/2018/07/classics-club-spin.html
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Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
…. so I guess that means I’m in
https://chronolit.com/2018/07/25/another-classic-club-spin-aug-2018/
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Love the dramatic huzzah approach to your spinning.
Can’t wait to see what you list,
Tally ho!
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Ack! I’ve entered my information on the Linky backward! Can you delete it and I’ll redo it properly? My apologies.
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Done – it’s ready for you go again Karen 🙂
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I almost did the same thing! Lol
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