Swoon!
Welcome to Club Dare 2.0.
It’s very easy.
During FEBRUARY we DARE you to tap into your inner romantic!
Simply read a CLASSIC book from your #CClist that you classify as romantic, glamorous, sexy or alluring. It could even be a book or author that you are predisposed to LOVE (because of its topic, its reputation etc).
Combine it with other challenges if you wish.
Do you DARE? If so:
- Let us know what you’ve DARED yourself to read during FEBRUARY in the comments below.
- If you want, create a post telling us why you chose this book as your DARE. Go into all the charming details about its LOVE factor and link it back here!
- When you’re finished, write about the book at your blog.
- Pop back at the end of February to share your DARE.
- Link your review in our REVIEW page.
- Feeling social? Tweet, fb or instagram about your DARE.
- #ccdare
- That’s it! 🙂
As always, our aim is to help you read more books from your #CClist in a fun, friendly way. Join in as little or as much as you like, it’s up to you. But for now, we hope you DARE to DARE!
The Classics Club 
I’m a little late, but I’m in with The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.
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I’m going to go for Their Eyes Were Watching God – yes I know it’s about two abusive relationships but she does find love in the end.
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I don’t think any of the books left on my list are strictly romances, but I’m going to read My American by Stella Gibbons. It’s been on my CC list forever, and this year I put it on my TBR Pile Challenge list as well.
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I am in with The Custom of the Country, though the only person Undine is in love with is herself. She uses romance as a perfume to draw others in to get what she wants from them.
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I’m choosing The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde. Here’s my post:
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“I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
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This must be a quote from the play! 🙂
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Hm… I’m thinking I could go with either Giovani’s Room by James Baldwin or Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald. I could also do Wide Saragasso Sea… I’m going to try to get to one of these, but I don’t know which one will strike my fancy! That okay?
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Perfectly fine. Love is fickle 😀
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Okay… Wide Sargasso Sea it is!!! (There must be romance in it, right? I mean, we know from Jane Eyre that they married, so I’m hoping it qualifies.)
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Well, I’ve already scheduled The Hunchback of Notre Dame so I’m not sure that counts as romantic, though if memory serves me right poor old Quasimodo has the hots for Esmerelda… 😉 I might see if I can swap around and fit Mansfield Park instead – low key romance, but true love!
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I really want to join in, this is great, I’ll have to put some thought in!
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Thanks for the challenge. Time has come for Love in the Time of Cholera!
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“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”
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That sounds promising, lol!
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This is so cool how you react to each post with a quotation, loving it!
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I was at a lose end for an hour yesterday & had fun finding a quote about love for each book 😍
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Nice way of using your spare time!
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I preferred this to his 100 Years of Solitude so enjoy!
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I actually did enjoy 100 Years of Solitude, so then that should be really good. Thanks!
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Oh, I did like 100 Year, but I thought this was better.
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I’ll go for Villette by Charlotte Bronte!
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“While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!”
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I will accept the dare and read The Grand Sophy.
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“Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?”
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I’m going with The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton.
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“It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.”
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What a lovely quote! I’m looking forward to discovering it.
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I had fun finding a quote for each book 😊
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I appreciated mine 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 I enjoyed the quote from ‘my’ book very much.
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Very cute and very interesting. I am not sure but I will try and find something that goes with the theme!
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OK, I’ll bite. I’ll read The Grand Sophy by February.
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It’s one amazing novel! My first Heyer and 20 years later my most favorite still! Hope you have fun!
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I’m sure I will!
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“She had herself been sadly disappointed, for she had thought him a man of sense, certainly not one to be succumbing to childish ailments at inopportune moments.”
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LOL
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I’m in! Going to be reading IDA ELIZABETH, which I understand is a novel about love, marriage, and honor.
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“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”
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That’s from Kristine, isn’t it? I’m looking forward to trying Undset for the first time.
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Most likely as I could not find a quote from Ida anywhere!!
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