Hello, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 17th October, 2021, 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 spin period.
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 Sunday 17th, October, 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 the 12th December, 2021. That’s an eight week reading window for this spin. You may like to stack your list with books that you know are do-able for you within that time frame.
We’ll check in here on Sunday the 12th December, 2021 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 Sunday, 17th October.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 12th December, 2021.
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 Sunday?
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 12th December, 2021.
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 week, come back and tell us your spin title.
Who’s in?
Add the link for your spin list below and join in the discussion.
Hashtag: #ccspin
Here’s my list! I posted via schedule so I didn’t know the spin number before I created it.
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Here’s my list: https://eelsbutnohovercraft.blogspot.com/2021/10/cc-spin-28.html
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I almost forget to put my list in. Here it is. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2021/10/classic-spin-28-my-books.html
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Ready to do this! https://iwouldratherbereadingblog.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/classics-club-spin-third-times-the-charm/
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Here’s my Spin List I was able to link up with a few of you (Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit, The Great God Pan). But I’m hoping for #20, The Last Unicorn.
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Yay, another spin! I’m hoping for a long book this time. Here’s my list: https://warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.com/2021/10/16/classics-club-spin-28/
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Here you go… 20 classics I want to read. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2021/10/15/tcl-joins-the-classics-club-spin-ccspin-28/
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Ready to cross a classic off my backlist! https://abookwanderer.com/reading-challenge-classics-club-spin-28/
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Here we go again… https://bookobsessed.home.blog/2021/10/15/classics-club-spin-28/
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I’m in! 🙋♀️ And here’s my list: https://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/%f0%9f%8f%9b-the-classics-club-spin-event-28-%f0%9f%8e%b0/ 📚
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I’m in! Here’s my list of 20 books.
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Now why did it put my link in a big preview box? *sigh*
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It just seems to do that sometimes *shrug*
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I am very, very well aware of the “bad” in GWTW but it is still the greatest American novel. I’ve read it 20+ times. Here’s my list: https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/classics-club-spin-28-list/
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Because this time of year can be quite busy, I did not decide to challenge myself with huge books, and I instead focused on putting books on my list that I really am eager to read.
https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2021/10/shall-we-spin-to-see-what-we-shall-read.html
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I’m in! 🙂 https://fanciedfreedom.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/classics-club-spin-28/
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This my list https://inanotherera.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/cc-spin-28-my-list/ 🙌
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Here’s my list for the spin: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2021/10/13/my-list-for-classics-club-spin-28/
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I’m in ! I haven’t been blogging for months, but it seems I came back just in time for this challenge 🙂 https://booksnlivres.blogspot.com/2021/10/classics-club-spin-28.html
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You have a fun list! Here is mine: https://wordsandpeace.com/2021/10/13/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-28/.
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I’m in.
My 28th CC Spin list looks like this – https://bronasbooks.com/2021/10/13/classics-club-spin-28/
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I’m in! Here’s my list: http://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2021/10/classics-club-spin-28.html
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Here goes nothing… Let’s see how this goes! https://juliettederoulededwellinginthepast.blogspot.com/2021/10/my-book-spin-list-for-classics-club.html
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Yay!! Here’s my list: https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2021/10/its-classics-club-spin-28.html
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Congrats on your 28th spin Jean!!
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I’ve only got ten left on my list and am trying to read at least half of them before the end of the year, so I’m in! I hope you don’t pick the lurking monster I’ve been evading for five years though… 😉 List will go up tomorrow.
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We love it when lurking monsters get their time in the sun 😀
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I’m always looking forward to the CC Spin. I have just posted my list
this morning. Thanks!
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Please share your list or link back? Am I missing it? GOOD LUCK
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Just click on the word “list” in my post. 😉
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Ah, the color differentiator was not easy to recognize. I swear I thought I clicked on it but I guess not. Thanks!
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I know, I’ll probably have to highlight more words for the link in future. Thanks.
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I got Patricia Highsmith “The Talented Mr. Ripley” – 1955. Never read her, so that’s going to be interesting.
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I’m in, but my post will only go up on Friday.
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Here’s my list: https://shereadsnovels.com/2021/10/11/classics-club-spin-28-my-list/
Looking forward to it!
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Oh fun! Here’s my list: https://classicalcarousel.com/classics-club-spin-28/
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