If you joined the game last week, find number 19 on your CC Spin #20 List! That’s the CLASSIC you are challenged to read by 31st May, 2019.
We know it can be hard to stay on track and enthused about your Spin Book for the whole journey. We plan to provide support and encouragement to all our CC Spinners via twitter, fb, instagram and goodreads. We hope you can join us in cheering everyone on to finish another fabulous classics reading experience!
If you’re struggling with your book, let us know. We’ll do everything we can to help you through. Perhaps one of your new moderators has read it, or we can link you up with another Classics Clubber who has.
As always, the prize is the reading experience.
What’s Next?
Tell us below what your number 19 title is:
- Are you feeling thrilled, hesitant or ‘meh’ about your title?
- Check out our ‘Reviews By Members’ page for other Classic Clubbers who may have read your book recently. They may be able to help you if you hit a speedhump in your reading.
- Cheer on your fellow Clubbers.
- Take a pic of your book and pop it on Instagram or twitter.
- If you can — it would be fabulous if everyone posted about their Spin book by the 31st May, 2019.
- Then check back here to share your experience and add your review to our ‘Reviews By Members’ page.
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I finished quite a while ago – spin gave me a super short read. My review of The Old Man and the Seahttps://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-old-man-and-sea-by-ernest-hemingway.html
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Woo even though I started late, I managed to finish The Woman in White! It helped that I got hooked and read a good chunk of the book in one sitting. https://withtheclassics.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/the-woman-in-white-review/
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I finished my spin book just in time!
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I’m reading…six books! Crazy, I know. The story is here on my blog.
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Deb you are a legend!! What a great incentive to finish the last 6 books on your list.
Good luck 😉
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Wow, great! Even if they are not too long. I always update my spin list so I always have 20 books to read. Do you have it on a separate list? Or how do you do if the spin no. is a book you have already read?
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I think there are lots of ways you can make the spin list of twenty titles fit. Last time I listed the five longest titles four times each.
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Yeah…there were some Hemingway vibes going out. I got The Old Man and the Sea
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My #19 was Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I am very pleased. I have not read a lot by her. Loved To the Lighthouse, so I am eager to start this one.
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I’ve only read Mrs. Dalloway, so I will be curious about your reaction to Orlando.
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Oh Boy! I wanted The Code of the Woosters and I’ve got Primo Levi If This is a Man, still I need to read it so here we go . . .
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My #19 is “Daisy Miller” by Henry James. I love long books, this one isn’t one but I am determined to pick a long book from the list after his.
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I’m excited to read ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ as it will be my first Oscar Wilde!
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A successful spin! I haven’t read this one, I’ve enjoyed the plays but I get a feeling this is quite different, looking forward to your review!
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A great book. I reread it recently, since I could not really remember it well from my first read, many years ago. Good luck, I hope you like it, although it is a little bit weird!
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It’s a terrific book. There is a black and white horror movie from 1945 based on the book, too.
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Really – a horror film of Dorian Grey? I must look it out. I’ve seen a bit of the more recent one with Colin Firth which I didn’t want to finish, this sounds better!
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Colin Firth? I’ll have to watch it. Is it terrible?
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I didn’t see enough of it to know if it’s terrible, it was just very uncomfortable! May be I should give it another go?
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You can always decide whether to watch it or no time after you’ve read the book. The old movie was chilling, though.
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My spin book is the Picture of Dorian Gray as well!
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Woohoo! The Importance of Being Earnest! It’s short! It’s fun! It’s Oscar Wilde! In case no one can tell, I’m delighted with #19 coming up 😀
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Hmmmmmmm…. 🤔
I’m very happy for you! 😀
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Still smiling 😀
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Lucky you!
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Starting to feel as if I’m showing off 🙂
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I’m reading My Love Must Wait by Ernestine Hill. Happy with the result.
https://adarngoodread.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-classics-club-spin-20-the-number-has-been-announced.html
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Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles! Woot! Couldn’t be more happy. 🙂
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses….. this is going to be a challenge and a half but I am looking forward to it
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Next up for me is “Main Street” by Sinclair Lewis. I vaguely remember reading “Babbitt” in high school, but I think that’s the only Lewis I’ve read. I’m looking forward to this famous satirical novel of small town life.
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My lucky #19 is C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain and The Screwtape Letters. I’m reading two of Lewis’ books because they’re relatively short. According to Audible they’re about 4 hours each. Only 6 more books to go in the C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Box Set.
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I drew A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides which was unexpected but I’m looking forward to it. A different read than I’ve been used to lately.
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That sounds idyllic 🙂
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I am jealous!
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I got Nevil Shute’s On The Beach, which is one I’m really looking forward to. And it’s short! 😀
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Mine is short too. But it’s Hemingway 😖 The one book I hoped not to get. Are you sure you weren’t secretly sending out Hemingway vibes, FF? 😀 😉
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Hahaha – go on, blame me! I can take it… 😉
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Fantastic! You can watch the movie, too. Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck starred 😀
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Ooh, that sounds good! I don’t think I’ve seen it before either… 😀
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Gregory Peck is extraordinarily handsome in On the Beach 😀 Ava Gardner famously said that Melbourne was the perfect place to have set a film about the end of the world.
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Hahaha – how rude of her!
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🙂
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And it’s thought provoking – a little dated, but still fascinating.
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I love those “idea” books of around that era, so am always willing to overlook the occasional dated attitude. Fingers crossed! 😀
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Sounds like a good and rather easy read. I got Orlando by Virginia Woolf, and hope this will be rather pleasant as well.
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Yes, it’s one of the lighter ones on my list which is great because I’ve got a couple of monsters to read over the next couple of months. I haven’t read Orlando but of course have heard good things about it – hope you enjoy it! 🙂
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It’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for me! Not one I was really planning to read soon, but I’m happy to get it anyways. Now, just to decide on a translation…
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I have only read the Tolkien translation, but I’ve read it twice. I love it!
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I’m happy to be reading another one of my lovely Virago Modern Classic cover designs – Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. I read My Cousin Rachel way back when, for CC spin #3 and loved it, so I have rather high hopes for this 🙂
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Jamaica Inn is a great story. And perfect for reading as the nights draw – which I think they must do doing where you are?
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I know nothing about the book at all, so this is the first I’ve heard of a winterish atmosphere. It might be nice as we’re still enjoying a long, extended warm autumn in Sydney….
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Hope you enjoy it 🙂 I’ll look out for your review.
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I enjoyed Jamaica Inn. Great atmospherics!
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I recently saw the TV-series. It is a very dark story. I aim to read and reread more Daphne in the future. Hope you like it.
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I got James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific. I am curious, Michener can be great and tedious, and completely unpredictable. Also I do feel the Musical is more of light weight than what the author intended. So we shall see! I am at this point very happy with the choice
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Centennial is still my favourite Michener, but they’re such huge books, I doubt I will ever reread any of them to see if they hold up to an ‘older, more experienced’ readers scutiny!!
Hope you enjoy your journey into the South Pacific.
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Thanks Brona! Yes, they are all chunksters. I have managed to read The Source several times and it’s one of my go-to books; but I am always unsure about Michener. Let me see how this one pans out!
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I used to love his huge tomes! It’s been a long time since I read one though. Enjoy!
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I got A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft! Happy reading, everyone! 🙂
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A Great Book Study is hosting a readalong of that this month, you could jump on board perhaps?
I’m not quite halfway through it right now myself.
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Should be interesting, but might not be the easiest book to read.
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I got The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter. I don’t know much about it but I’m hoping it will be entertaining.
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I was hoping you would get that one, Helen. Hope it’s a good one!
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I can’t wait to read your review. I have an old edition copywright 1921 that my father was given as a boy. I inherited it from him and it sits lovingly on my shelf, but I’ve never read it!!!!
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I half-wanted the SpinMeister to give a long one, but no! I got The School For Scandal by Sheridan. I’m fully expecting to enjoy it.
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I’m grateful for a reasonably shorter story in the shape of Jamaica Inn.
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Jamaica Inn should be fun. I really need to explore more du Maurier (other than the obvious one…)
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My lucky book is The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill. Why is it that I almost never think to read a play unless it’s thrust into my hands like this?
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Me, too!
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I know nothing about this one. Good luck with it!
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I got Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
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I got The Dream of the Red Chamber, by Cao Xueqin. I”m thrilled, that’s definitely new territory: https://wordsandpeace.com/2019/04/22/the-classics-club-what-i-got-for-the-classics-spin-20/
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I am interested to see what you think of that, as I have been considering reading it.
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oohhh!! This has been in my TBR for a while. I am both intimidated and intrigued!! Look forward to your thoughts on the book!
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Should be interesting. Please let me know what you think of it. I seldom read Chinese authors, especially not older ones.
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That’s going to be “Daisy Miller” by Henry James for me. Thanks. Looking forward to it.
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Yay – I got Brideshead Revisited by Waugh! I own a copy too so that’s wonderful. Good spin!
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Good one!
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Its one my most endearing reads! Hope you enjoy the book!
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Thanks!
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One of my favourite books. I don’t know if it is because I watched the fantastic TV adaption of it, or just the book itself. Well worth a read.
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Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson. It should be a fun read.
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That’s a fun book.
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I read this last year!! Its a good laugh!!
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Ugh, I ended up with another eighteenth century classic – just like the last time. So I shall be reading Evelina by Frances Burney….. https://bookertalk.com/2019/04/22/classics-club-spin-lands-on-evelina/
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I read it once although I have it on my list, too. I remember it as quite long.
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It doesn’t look that thick a book but maybe the text is very small.
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I sympathise. I’m not over the moon about my winner either!
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I kind of cheated this time. Since I’d been unhappy with my Classics Club list for a while, I first rewrote my whole CC list, then put on my spin list only titles that I was at least somewhat interested in reading. I’ll let you know how that worked out . . .
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I did the same apart from 2. And guess what came up! 😀
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I would call this an excellent move rather than cheating. This is the kind of thing we were led to believe was cheating in school, but it’s actually something that responsible adults should do. We are much more likely to read and enjoy reading something we want to read. Why force ourselves to read books when our heart isn’t in it? Why not come back to books when we are interested in reading them?
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I agree. I have taken away books I don’t want to read. One can’t read them all, so why not only read the once you feel like.
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I dont envy you the Hemmingway
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Thanks for #19 – I get to read the classic I wanted to read in April/May! Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather.
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Nice!
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I’ll be reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, which I’m overall happy about. It’s a bit long, and I can’t start reading till May 11, but that’s okay!
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I got something of an outlier — Amrita, by Banana Yoshimoto. I know nothing about this book or author, and it’s fairly modern. I think. I had mostly picked books that were already sitting on a shelf in my house, but this one I’ll have to go and get! It will be fun.
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I never heard of that one! Should be interesting to see what you think!
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You know I have been very very curious about this book ever since I saw it on your list ….I may pick it up post your review!!
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I read Kitchen by her and loved it. Quite sad and quiet in that style we’ve come to expect from contemporary Japanese fiction. I’ve been meaning to go back and read more of her stories, so I’ll be curious to hear what you think.
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Oh my goodness. I went and checked out Amrita, and read the first few pages. Then I looked at my Spin list again; Amrita is #18! My Spin title is ACTUALLY short stories by Walter de la Mare. O.O A much longer book. Good thing I figured it out fast…
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I have been saying that I’d be happy with any of the books on my list. That said, no. 19 was the one I least wanted! The Sun Always Rises. Ah well! Hemingway it is! 😀
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Yeah, I’ve had enough of Hemingway to last me the rest of my life.
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Ha ha! Well this will be my first Hemingway. And possibly my last…. 😀
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Ha ha ha!
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Umm. My feeling is that’s the least objectionable Hemingway? Is that an endorsement?
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Yes, that helps 🙂 I also heard that it’s his best. So no need to read anything more by him after this one as everything can only be a disappointment from now on in 😉
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Sandra, take comfort in the fact that at least it’s fairly short!
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Indeed, Mary! I’m thankful for small mercies!
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On the bright side, by the end of May this book won’t be on your list anymore.
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Hurrah! 😀
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Don’t despair too much. I read it some years ago, and really liked it. It is not a difficult read. I read it in connection with a biography of Hemingway and The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain, an historical fiction about his first wife. Maybe I was just into the mood? I can recommend Mclain’s book if you are interested in such stories.
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It looks like I’ll be reading Shakespeare’s The Tempest for one blog…and the Exposition of Mark by J.C. Ryle for my other blog.
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Super excited! My #10 is Helena by Evelyn Waugh. https://strewing.blogspot.com/2019/04/classics-spin-pick-is-19.html
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I must have created an account many years ago on wordpress which I never developed. I’ll try to sign here with my real blog.
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My spin pick is The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young. I’m quite pleased because I have so many Virago Modern Classics left on my TBR shelf. I’m looking forward to reading it!
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Here’s another one I never heard of.
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I will be reading The Time Machine by H G Wells 🙂
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I got the book I was hoping to get! Sounds silly, really. I needn’t have waited for a spin to read it. But then again, I can’t get to delve into too many books at a time, and I’ve others on the side. Getting this book in a spin is good incentive to read it before the holidays are up!
https://livingajourney.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/lucky-19/
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O Jerusalem!
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