Today’s the Day!
On the 9th August, we announced the latest Classic Club Spin, challenging you to read book 18 on your CC Spin #24 list by 30th September 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 25 is scheduled for November.
The Classics Club 
Sadly, I haven’t finished reading my Spin result: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 🙁 But I have enjoyed what I have managed to read so far. 🙂
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Yes, I finished War and Peace with one day to spare! Have finally written my blog:
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I did read and write about my spin! Tender is the Night but sadly, I didn’t enjoy as much as I thought I would. Wrong mood? wrong time? I don’t know.
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Yes, I read Salem Chapel by Mrs Oliphant. https://piningforthewest.co.uk/2020/09/30/salem-chapel-chronicles-of-carlingford-by-mrs-oliphant-classics-club-spin/
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Yes, I did! My review of The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is here:
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I did! I read “Barchester Towers” by Anthony Trollope for my spin pick. I enjoyed it, though it took a bit to get into the rather dizzying Church of England clerical heirarchy! https://austinfey.com/2020/10/02/barchester-towers-review/
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*hierarchy –ahh typos!
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I did! Confessions of an English Opium Eater – I enjoyed it and read it quickly as it’s only 79 pages long but it still took me until the 30th to write my review:
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Yes, I finished it – https://fictionfanblog.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/the-long-goodbye-by-raymond-chandler/ Sadly, it didn’t hit the spot for me – noir just isn’t my thing, I guess!
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Yes, I did. And commented on the original page. But, jsut in case, Hhre is the link to my classics book #18: The Wizard of Oz
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I did finish it but it was very short: https://warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.com/2020/09/16/book-review-the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north-and-other-travel-sketches-by-matsuo-basho/
I’m looking forward to the next spin!
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Believe it or not, but I did manage to finish my spin this month. It ended on Dante’s Divine Comedy. I count them as three books, although the overall title is on my number 18. I read Purgatory this month and even managed a post. https://thecontentreader.blogspot.com/2020/10/classic-club-spin-24.html
I hope to finish the last part Heaven later this week.
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I made it too and I am now a Sherlock Holmes convert!
A Study in Scarlet was a great origin story – http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-study-in-scarlet-arthur-conan-doyle.html
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I became a SH convert earlier this year as well. There are many more stories, better than A Study in Scarlet, so you have something to look forward too.
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Hooray! So glad you enjoyed your first foray into the world of Holmes. I like his short stories best, so you have much to look forward to.
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Yes I did – Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. https://madcaphat.com/2020/09/29/traveling-through-america/
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I did read and review my book for Spin #24. It was The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake, and I enjoyed reading it very much.
https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-beast-must-die-nicholas-blake.html
I am ready for another spin soon.
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I read Bellamy’s Looking Backward. I finished the book, but then went back to read the introduction, and I haven’t finished that. Or blogged about it. I did enjoy the book, although it’s a little disheartening how little things seem to have actually changed since the late-1800s!
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Yes, I read Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy, really enjoyed it.
https://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.com/2020/09/classics-spin-24-troy-chimneys-by.html
Looking forward to the next spin!!
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I finished mine! Hooray! This book was fantastic!
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I was totally excited with my spin, but I have had a busy reading program, and I haven’t even started it!!!
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Ahhh happens to us all at some time! Save it for the next spin 🙂
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Yes! I read Tolstoy’s last novel, Resurrection: https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2020/09/ccspin-24-resurrection.html And I enjoyed it too!
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Yes, here’s my review of Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/review-1558-classics-club-spin-result-kennilworth/
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Yes, I finished my Spin book just in time! Here’s my review of The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson:
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Yes, finished my book for the Spin, Catch-22. Didn’t love it, but understood it more by the end.
https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2020/09/catch-22.html
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Hi. Yes I did finish reading my book for Spin #24. I finished it quickly, it was a short book. Below is the link ~
I’m looking forward to the next spin.
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