Today’s the Day!
On the 17th October we announced the latest Classic Club Spin, challenging you to read book 12 on your CC Spin #28 list by 12th December 2021.
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 29 is scheduled for March 2022.
The Classics Club 
Just realised I forgot to pop my link here 🙂
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I did finish, on the last day. I read The Awakening by Kate Chopin and had to push myself to keep going. Definitely not one of my favourites. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-awakening.html
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I did! I read The Trial by Kafka and I very much enjoyed it. Here’s my post: https://warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/book-review-the-trial-by-franz-kafka/
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I read my spin Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton in November. I ended up listening to the audiobook through Libby. It wasn’t as good as The Outsiders, of course, but I still enjoyed it. It would make a great, quick read to fulfill a reading challenge, as well. I didn’t do a full review, but I did mention my thoughts in My November Wrap-Up.
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Not only did I finish my Spin on time, I posted before the due date. Yay me 🙂
I read The Matriarch (1924), by G.B. Stern and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a sweeping generational tale beginning in the 18th century and goes through to the 1920s and explores the ups and downs of the large Rakonitz family of European Jews. A gem if I do say so!
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I did! I read Eugenie Grandet and loved it, thank you for the push!
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I read two books by Robert Louis Steveson: A Child’s Garden of Verses and Treasure Island. I am so happy that I finally got to the swash-buckling adventure book. Loved it. https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2021/11/classics-club-spin-robert-louis.html
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Yes, I finished The Haunting of Hill House. I was a bit disappointed. Probably the curse of high expectations. My review: http://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-shirley.html
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I am new to the Classics Club and missed this spin. Since you announced that the next spin will be in March, do I go ahead and create a list of 20 books for that next spin?
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Sure. I have my classics club list of classics I want to read that I am always sort of working on, then when a spin is announced I look through it and decide which 20 I want to include on the spin. This past spin I included author’s names rather than titles because I wanted to make sure I could find something at the library and my specific title might not be available for check out. Welcome!
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Oh yes. I do have my classics club list already and have the post up on my blog. I was just confused if the mention in this post of the upcoming spin was the announcement and I needed to get the list of 20 ready or if there would be an announcement post in March and that’s when I get my list ready. Just a bit confused with being new and all. 🙂
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You gave me The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler and I did like it… Here’s the link to my review http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2021/11/19/tcls-ccspin-28-review-doubled-and-troubled/
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Yes I did, though I haven’t posted any review yet. I got A Man Lay Dead, by Ngaio Marsh. I was very excited about this one, but was actually a bit disappointed. It was a bit complicated and muddled. Should I persevere and try volume 2?
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Yes, I did. I got The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
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I read Villette by Charlotte Bronte and LOVED it!
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Sure did! Plum Bun, a Harlem Renaissance novel. https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2021/12/cc-spin-28-plum-bun.html
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I finished mine, The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather, but haven’t written about it yet.
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I read a Willa Cather for the spin before this one and was sort of ‘meh” about it. I did like the peek it gave me as to life in the early 1900s, however.
I read Treasure Island. Somehow I missed it as a child but loved it as an adult. Treasure Island
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My #12 was the Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories. I have about 10 pages left. I waited too long to start. But it still counts if I finish tonight, it still being the 12th here, yes? 😉
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Yes – I read The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy, and enjoyed it. https://bookobsessed.home.blog/2021/12/13/the-trumpet-major/
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Yes, I enjoyed it. Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes:
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Yes, I finished mine: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute: https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/review-1767-a-town-like-alice/
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Finished my spin book but didn’t care for it. Not the right time for me to read it? My review is here: https://afondnessforreading.com/2021/12/12/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court/
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Yes I did – Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay – my post is here –
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I have been intending to read that.
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I did read my book, in October, but did not get my post up until last night. I read The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. I enjoyed it very much. My first book by that author but it won’t be my last.
https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-moviegoer-walker-percy.html
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That was a quirky book, as I remember.
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I did finish! http://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-second-sex.html
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Yes, I did! All 815 pages of it! The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw – a book I only found out about by searching lists of American classics five years ago when I was preparing my CC list. A great book, about the experiences of three very different young men serving in WW2 – harrowing and thought-provoking, and beautifully written.
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It’s been a long time since I read anything by Irwin Shaw. Maybe I’ll put him on my next CC list.
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