Hello, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 19th March, 2023, 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 19th, March, 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 30th April, 2023.
We’ll check in here on Sunday the 30th April 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, 19th March.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 30th April.
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 30th April 2023.
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
I am new to Classics Club and blogging in general, but I want to try this. Here is my list: https://bibliombitiousasakes.blogspot.com/2023/03/list-for-classics-club-spin-33.html
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Here’s my spin: http://fictitiously.ca/2023/03/19/classics-club-spin-33/
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I’m in. I used to run a blog called Exploring Literature. However, I retired it and started a mystery-focused book blog at the start of 2023. I’m excited to read classic mysteries for the CC Spin. My list includes the first 20 Hercule Poirot mysteries:
https://moosemysteries.com/cc-spin-33/
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I’m in! Better late than never. Here’s my spin: https://browngirlreading.com/2023/03/18/the-classics-club-spin-33/
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Woohoo! https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2023/03/cc-spin-33.html
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I’m joining this month! Here is my link.
https://www.shellielovesbooks.com/2023/03/classics-club-spin-33.html
Looking forward to the challenge 🙂
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My spin list: https://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-classics-club-spin-33.html
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33 spins – what will it be this time?
Hopefully Jean will pop by soon with her list, as we are the only two left who have participated in all the spins so far 🙂
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I’m in! It’s been too long.
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An attractive list, Brona. 🙂 I’ve read six of these titles but most have been from decades ago, even from when I supposedly studied them at school! Jane Eyre is the most recent, from about five years ago.
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I’m in! Can’t wait to see where the spin lands… My list: https://bookshelffantasies.com/2023/03/15/getting-ready-for-the-spring-2023-classics-club-spin/
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I’ve missed the last couple of spins; I didn’t have enough books left on my Classics Club list. But now I’m at the start of a brand new CC list. Here are the books I’m throwing into the pile…let’s see where the spinner stops.
https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2023/03/lets-spin-wheel-to-see-what-to-read.html
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Great!
Here’s my list – https://booksplease.org/2023/03/15/classics-club-spin-19/
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My list is up! Be nice to me, Spin Gods!
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I’m in as usual – here’s my list… https://bookobsessed.home.blog/2023/03/15/classics-club-spin-33/
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Yay! I’m ready for a new spin! Here’s my list:
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I’m in!: https://wordsandpeace.com/2023/03/14/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-33/
Great list! If we get 13, be sure to get an edition with plenty of footnotes and explanations, otherwise, it’s easy to pass by the main themes actually. Rather coded book – to avoid censure. But so good!
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My post is ready to go live on Friday and I’m holding the following Friday for the post announcing which book I got! Really looking forward to this, once again! Thanks, darlings!
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Great list. I read eleven of your books. Are you wishing for a special one? If you don’t get #16, I’d suggest “Sense & Sensibility” next.
My list.
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I was successful last time so I’m back for more. Here’s my list: https://www.truebookaddict.com/2023/03/classics-club-spin-33.html
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Hurrah! Another excuse to put off housework in favour of making a book-list! I’m in!
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