Today’s the Day!
On the 23rd September, we announced the latest Classic Club Spin, challenging you to read book 5 on your CC Spin #21 list by 31st October 2019.
Did you read your book? Did you write about it, or not?
What’s Next?
- In the comments below, tell us what book you read, and what you thought of it?
- Feel free to add a link to your review, here, on twitter and/or fb.
- Also add your link to the ‘Reviews by Members’ in the tab at the top of the page.
- Take a moment to see what everyone else has been reading.
- Tick/strikeout/cross off that book from your Classics Club List – congratulations!
As always, the prize is the reading experience.
We hope you enjoyed it.
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin #ccwhatimreading
Calendar alert: #ccspin 22 is scheduled for mid December.
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I did, it was a fairly short book: On the Edge of the World, by Nikolai Leskov. Thanks for asking, it’s a good reminder to post my review soon!
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No, I didn’t! I am reading Anna Karenina, and has just started. It is another thick book, but lovely writing. I will take my time reading it.
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Yes! Finished! Though my review is a bit tardy. I read The House on the Strand and enjoyed it–a little creepy October read: https://austinfey.com/2019/11/04/the-house-on-the-strand/
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I enjoyed Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford, not my usual fave reading but it was a good experience – at least to satisfy my curiosity. I posted on Oct 15: https://bkclubcare.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/love-in-a-cold-climate/
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Yes, I finished My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin in record time! I’ll be posting about it soon.
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I read this book last year for a spin choice and was disappointed. Here is my review, written in January last year. Let me know how my thoughts compare to yours. My Brilliant Career review
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Thank you, your review was very interesting! I had a somewhat different experience, as you will see (my review will post soon).
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I finished my book, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, on time but just posted my review today. So close!
https://bigreadinglife.wordpress.com/2019/11/01/quicksand-by-nella-larsen-cc-spin-21/
It was a terrific book!
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Yes, I did, and I really enjoyed it! 🙂
My review of Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs https://klasikfanda.blogspot.com/2019/10/cc-spin-21-tarzan-of-apes-by-edgar-rice.html
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I love Tarzan!! Even if Jane is rather a male fantasy. 🙂
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I made a huge effort to finish and review Tom Jones by Henry Fielding! Loved it, but it is a looong book.
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Not quite – I still have the last quarter of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton to read. So I’ll finish it soon and I’ll post my review in the next few days (I hope).
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I did finish! Edith Wharton’s Custom of the Country. Really great!
https://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-custom-of-country-ccspin.html
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That one’s on my list!! Apparently some say the heroine was an inspiration for Scarlett O’Hara. Or at any rate, that the heroine SEEMS a tad like Scarlett. I’ve seen nothing to suggest Margaret Mitchell read Edith Wharton. But she probably did. She read everything and it was published when she was in junior high and reading like it was her job. 🙂 That’s why this one’s on my list.
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Yes for once I did! I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo;s Nest and gave it the full five stars. Here’s my review… https://fictionfanblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/gan-quest-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-by-ken-kesey/
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No, I didn’t. My spin was for Last of the Mohicans, which I have tried to read before, and still intend to, but just lately I have been too busy for such a dense, difficult book. Maybe during my holidays…
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Oh man, that is just about an Unreadable Book.
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Yep, I read Buchi Emecheta’s “The Bride Price” and it was excellent. https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2019/10/cc-spin-21-bride-price.html
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Yes, I did. I finished Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson a few weeks ago. So, with time to spare, I also read The 13 Clocks by James Thurber.
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Yes, yes I did! My review is due in a couple of days though – time got away from me. I’ll be back 🙂
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My review – http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-wonder-child-by-ethel-turner.html?m=1
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For the first time, I can say yes and yes! I re-read the wonderful Persuasion by Jane Austen and here is my review: https://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/persuasion-by-jane-austen/ 🙂
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One of my favorites!
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Yes, I did! I read Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy and my review is here: https://shereadsnovels.com/2019/10/31/two-on-a-tower-by-thomas-hardy/
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Nice one. I always like Hardy!
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I did finish and I wrote about it here: http://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-big-sleep.html
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Alas, I did not….
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I finished last night! I read three plays by Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus the King and Electra. No. 5 on my list was actually the Oedipus Trilogy but I found a copy of these plays in my home library (probably from one of my kids’ college reading) and so I decided close enough! I enjoyed reading them all. I plan to post about them at my blog over the weekend.
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Nope, still reading Jane Eyre, though I’ve finished a huge number of shorter novels along the way. Still, I always knew that five weeks wasn’t long enough for me to do this title the justice it deserves. I have high hopes of completing before Christmas however! 🙂
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Good luck finishing!
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Thank you, I’m halfway through now! 🙂
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Is it a reread? I adore Jane Eyre.
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Not a reread, though I feel I know it quite well but screen adaptations and discussions!
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Oh how fun! First reads are THE BEST. xoxo
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Yes, I actually managed to finish my spin book! Robinson Crusoe was a short but interesting book and I actually really enjoyed it 🙂
Here’s my review: https://warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/book-review-robinson-crusoe-by-daniel-defoe/
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I thought some parts of Robinson Crusoe were much better than others. Glad you liked it!
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I did, and here’s my review of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston https://whatcathyreadnext.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/bookreview-their-eyes-were-watching-god-by-zora-neale-hurston-ccspin/ Thanks for hosting. It’s the motivation I need to actually read something from my list!
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Nice choice!
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Yes! Here’s my review of The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/review-1412-classics-club-spin-review-the-wise-virgins/
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