Hello, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 18th June, 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 18th, June 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 6th August, 2023.
We’ll check in here on Sunday the 6th August 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, 18th June.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 6th August.
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 a list that looks something like this:
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 6th August 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
Just in time??? http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2023/06/17/tcl-joins-the-classics-club-spin-ccspin-34/
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I don’t take part as regularly as I guess I could – but at least I stumbled on the spin this time around again. So yea! I will definitely take part!
List is attached to my link below.
Elza Reads
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I am joining in even though I have not written my review yet for my last spin choice (The Optimist’s Daughter / Eudora Welty).
Here is my list:
https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2023/06/classics-club-spin-34-june-2023.html
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And here I will try again 😀
https://www.truebookaddict.com/2023/06/classics-club-spin-34.html
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I’m very much looking forward to it. Here’s my list: https://cozymysteryreads.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/cc-spin-34/?preview=true
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I’m very much looking for it. Here’s my list: https://cozymysteryreads.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/cc-spin-34/?preview=true
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I’m ready for this one: http://fictitiously.ca/2023/06/15/classics-club-spin-34/
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Yay! Here’s my list: https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2023/06/cc-spin-34.html
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I’m in! Here’s my list: https://bookshelffantasies.com/2023/06/14/getting-ready-for-the-summer-2023-classics-club-spin/
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A summer spin! I’m looking forward to it
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But it’s tennis season! Oh well, I’ll just have to hope the Spin Gods pick me a short one… 😉
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There’s a lovely tennis scene in Forster’s Room With a View 😀
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I haven’t been reading very much lately, but am slowly getting back to my books, so this Spin #34 is calling to me! Here’s my list…
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Not for me this time, I’ve finished my first list and still finalising my second. But hope you get a great read, you’ve got some of my all time favourites Sense and Sensibility and Jane Eyre to name two!
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Looking forward to it, as this is my final year to finish my first list:
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I’m in! Here is my list: https://wordsandpeace.com/2023/06/13/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-34/
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Whew! My join-up post will have to go live one minute before your deadline, but no matter, I had it all ready and waiting for this!
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I’m in too for my 34th spin 🙂
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Brilliant. I have read eleven of your list and they are all great books. Enjoy any of them.
And I finally finished the last book from my original list. Yay.
Here is my list.
Have fun everyone!
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Not entering this time, because I’m half-way through the second last book on my list. If I were to take part, the winner would be Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, which I’ve been looking forward to now for nearly five years 🙂
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Oh you have a treat in front of you! It’s one that also improves with a reread.
And congrats on finishing your list *bravo*
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Thank you, Brona. I am really, really looking forward to Mansfield Park.
I believe I ‘got something’ from most of the books on my list, so am busy compiling a second list.
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I’m in! Here’s my list: https://klasikfanda.blogspot.com/2023/06/classics-club-spin-34.html
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Count me in this summer!
https://finishingtheseries2020.blogspot.com/2023/06/classics-club-reading-challenge-spin-34.html
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I’ve been looking forward to a new spin!! Here’s my list!
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