If you joined the game last week, find number 8 on your CC Spin #37 List! That’s the CLASSIC you are challenged to read by 2nd June 2024.
We know it can be hard to stay on track and enthused about your Spin Book for the whole journey. We plan to provide support and encouragement to all our CC Spinners via twitter, fb, instagram and goodreads. We hope you can join us in cheering everyone on to finish another fabulous classics reading experience!
If you’re struggling with your book, let us know. We’ll do everything we can to help you through. Perhaps one of your new moderators has read it, or we can link you up with another Classics Clubber who has.
As always, the prize is the reading experience.
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Well, I had NO idea my book 8 was actually out of print!! Impossible to find it anywhere, in any format, or even in other languages.
So I have given up, after wasting a lot of time trying to find it, and will read book 4 in that same series, the first one of the series I can finally locate:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/04/22/the-classics-club-what-i-got-for-the-classics-spin-37/
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How old is it? If it is old enough, you could get it from Gutenberg.
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No, not even there. And I have all kinds of ways to get ebooks, but none works for this one. The British Library has been republishing them, but not the first ones in the series, go figure why!
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Shame… Well, from now on, we should all make sure that we have access to the books on our spin lists.
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I was away and missed the spin so I’m just going to read number 8 on my list which is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
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I landed Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh – happy about that. My last spin books were dreadful so it was time I got something that promises to be good
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Some interesting books that are going to be read. It’s Knut Hamsun for me, “The Growth of the Soil”.
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I got Persuasion by Jane Austen. I see there are mixed feelings about this one. Hopefully I will enjoy it as much as her others that I’ve read.
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If you’ve enjoyed her other books, I feel sure you’ll like it!
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I got Howards End by E. M. Forster! Very happy with this spin result.
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My number 8 is Jill by Philip Larkin and I’m delighted, thank you!
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YEAH! Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald!
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Here’s the link to my post about the spin pick! https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2024/04/28/the-classics-club-spin-ccspin-37-pick-for-tcl/
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I spun an Australian title from 1891 – The Three Miss Kings by Ada Cambridge – now I just have to find which box marked “AUST” I packed it into!
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Not unhappy I have to admit. I got The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. I’m hosting a horror readathon this month so I should be able to add this to my stack and finish by the end of April. Yay!
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I got Uncle Tom’s Cabin (a re-read) which is not at all what I was hoping for. Don’t know why I keep including books in my spins I don’t want to read next and expecting it to work out. 😅
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Hurrah! I got She by H Rider Haggard – an excellent pick! I’m getting worried about the Spin Gods – that’s twice in a row they’ve been nice to me… 😉
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Number Eight on my list is The Warden by Anthony Trollope. I have been wanting to get started on the Chronicles of Barsetshire so I hope I enjoy this book.
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I read it for a class and enjoyed it. Hope you like it!
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I got The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Looking forward to reading this one! 🙂
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I got that book on a visit to Natchitoches LA and really enjoyed it. She was a woman before her time! I hope you like it, too!
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This was such an influential book for me.
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I got The Prophet’s Mantle by E. Nesbit. I don’t know about the title, which doesn’t sound that great to me, but I enjoy reading E. Nesbit. So, we’ll see.
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The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas. I’m looking forward to reading it.
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I thought that was a fun one.
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I got Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. I’m going into it with an open mind considering I didn’t care for the only other Jane Austen I read. Before you ask, it was Persuasion and I know I’m in the minority with my feelings about it. (so please don’t throw any rotten tomatoes!)
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Good luck with it, then.
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I do hope you enjoy it!
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Northanger Abbey is the lightest and most fun of the Austens – I hope you enjoy it! Persuasion isn’t my favourite, either.
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Hmm. Persuasion is the book I got for my spin. At least it isn’t too long.
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Well don’t let what I said put you off any. Many folks love anything Jane Austen.
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Oh, don’t let me put you off! I think Persuasion is great – I just personally prefer her more sparkly, lighter books, like Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice. I hope you enjoy it!
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My number 8 is The Wrench by Primo Levi, it had good reviews when it was published, and it’s only 170 pages so I’m very happy with the spin this time.
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Levi writes beautifully (well, the one translation of his I read, was, at least). Enjoy!
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I read If This Is A Man and thought his writing was fantastic, I haven’t read anything since but would like to and haven’t heard of this one so I’m very interested!
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My (very exciting!) spin is Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady.
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Oh, good one!
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I got The Travels of Sir John Mandeville!
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Elmer Gantry!
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I am only familiar with the movie with Burt Lancaster.
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