Today’s the Day!
On the 19th April, we announced the latest Classic Club Spin, challenging you to read book 6 on your CC Spin #23 list by 1st June 2020.
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 24 is scheduled for August/September.
The Classics Club 
I had finished mine before the 1st of June but only just blogged about it today.
So, here is my review.
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Yeah, I finished The Sign of the Four a Sherlock Holmes novel. I enjoyed it very much.
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I finished my classics spin, Dante’s Purgatory about 10:30 p.m. on June 1st. I am just today getting around to posting about it. Here’s a link to my blog post: https://strewing.blogspot.com/2020/06/purgatory-by-dante-classics-spin.html and I also started a booktube channel and here’s the link to that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ8c90ZDrVk
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Yes! My review of Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym, is here: https://afondnessforreading.com/2020/06/06/classics-club-spin-23-excellent-women/
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Unfortunately not. I had, for the second time, James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. For the second time, I failed. Well, I still have it by my bedside so maybe I will read a chapter at a time, who knows?
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I did! I’m so proud of myself, I haven’t done well on my list. http://rosepetalsandfaeriedust.com/blog/2020/06/hamlet/
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Good for you!
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I read The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. I loved it.
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Nice review! I’m going to have to reread this one.
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I read Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie:
https://bethsbookishthoughts.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-midnights-children_14.html
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I didn’t like this one very much when I read it years ago, but then I’m not a fan of magical realism. It’s hard to tell if you liked it or not. Did you?
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Yes! I read Adam Bede by George Eliot. I really liked it! https://bigreadinglife.wordpress.com/2020/05/15/adam-bede-classics-club-spin-23/
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This is another Hardy novel I haven’t read in a long time. Maybe it’s time to revisit it. I’m glad you liked it!
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Yes, I read The Flowers of Adonis by Rosemary Sutcliff. It reminded me why I enjoyed reading her books when I was much younger. https://whatcathyreadnext.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/the-flowers-of-adonis-by-rosemary-sutcliff-bookreview-ccspin/
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Maybe some of those chapter titles are meant ironically. I have read some Sutcliff but not this one. Maybe I should check it out.
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Yes! I managed to both finish the reading and write about it (two spins in a row – unprecedented for me). I read The Nibelungenlied, a medieval German epic poem: https://simplerpastimes.wordpress.com/2020/05/31/the-nibelungenlied/
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Well, that was quite an ambitious spin for you. I haven’t read this, but I am somewhat familiar with some of the stories because of the operas.
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Yes, I read Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Just finished it with two days to spare – I had to keep taking breaks and read other books in between because it was so hard to read the tiny print, but I loved the book – so funny. It reminded me that Dickens is the ultimate in the art of descriptive writing. Now going to add a few more by him to my list…
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I think Our Mutual Friend is underrated. It’s one of my favorites.
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and this is my link: https://bookobsessed.home.blog/2020/06/11/our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens/
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I read The Great Gatsby, and have since learned most readers either love it or hate it, nothing in-between!
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Nice review. I’m on the “like” side.
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I’ve been keeping score and the ‘likes’ are in the majority 🙂
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Hahahahaha! My spin was Anna Karenina. I was already a quarter of the way through and assumed I’d make it through the rest in two months.
The minute the spin happened, I hit one of the worst reading ruts I’ve ever been in and didn’t read anything. And then I had a baby. So this one was a fail, but that’s okay. I’ll get to it when I have the ability to sleep again!
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I had finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prior to the spin. If I watch the movie will that count?😉
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I actually finished a spin, for once! I’m not sure that’s ever happened. My book was TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway and I have to say it was somewhat disappointing. I didn’t realize that this is considered his worst novel (I bought it at the Hemingway House gift shop in Key West so I’d imagine they don’t promote that fact). Even Hemingway himself reportedly wasn’t pleased with the book. It’s the story of Harry Morgan who loses a lot of money and turns to transporting contraband between Cuba and Key West. There’s a lot of fighting, misogyny (no surprise there), racial epithets, ethnic slurs, and very little story. Honestly, the only reason I finished it was because of the Spin. At least it was relatively brief. During that same Key West trip I purchased Ernest Hemingway: On Writing (some people buy t-shirts as souvenirs from a place, I buy books) but after that one, Ernest and I are probably parting ways as I haven’t liked much of his work.
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I think Hemingway is overrated. This one sounds worse than most of his.
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I read another Aussie classic – this time by Martin Boyd – A Cardboard Crown. It’s part of a tetrology whcih means I may now have to read the other 3 books *shrug*
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-cardboard-crown-martin-boyd-ccspin.html
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I always like it when I find out about both an author and a book I’m not familiar with. Sounds like I should look for this.
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Yes! I read the Australian trilogy, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. It was great! https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2020/06/cc-spin-fortunes-of-richard-mahony.html
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That’s great Jean!! I’m so impressed how quickly you read this huge book/trilogy. Will head over and check out your review soon…
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Hmm, I definitely need to get to know Australian literature a bit better.
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Yes I did read, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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I’m familiar with some of these titles, but I guess I’ve only read Jekyll and Hyde. Interesting.
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I’ve been too emotionally drained lately to take on the spin this time. Nevertheless, I am reading War and Peace, and I started The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter late last week.
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KAP’s stories are on my reading list for this summer too, I’ll have to keep an eye out if you have time to review it.
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Whoa! War and Peace is a biggie! I read it long ago, if you can call reading only the peace parts reading it. I think nowadays I would be better able to read the war parts, since I’ve read some really interesting descriptions of battles since then.
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I read Summer Half by Angela Thirkell. https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2020/06/01/classics-club-spin-23-summer-half-by-angela-thirkell/
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How wonderful is Thirkell at this time.
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I have quite a few books by Thirkell although not this one, I think. I find her to be fun.
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I did finish! I got lucky, my spin was pretty short: The Hireling by L. P. Hartley. I enjoyed it even thought it wasn’t at all what I expected.
https://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.com/2020/06/classics-spin-23-hireling-by-l-p.html
I’m already thinking about CC Spin #24!
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Hmm, I’m not familiar with this one. Sounds like it could be fun.
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I read The Beetle by Richard Marsh. Enjoyed it quite a bit even though it fizzled toward the end.
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Yes! I finished with a couple of days to spare…yay, me!! I read Edith Wharton’s, The Glimpses of the Moon.
https://relevantobscurity.com/2020/05/29/the-glimpses-of-the-moon/
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One of my favorites by Wharton!
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I am still learning about Wharton’s lesser-known works. She was amazing!
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Yes! I read Challenge by Vita Sackille-West: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/review-1512-classics-club-spin-challenge/
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