I am participating in the Classic Club Spin #5 throughout Feb. & March. The goal is to read a classic that’s been on your to-do list for a while. Simply, you numerically list 20 books and come Feb. 10, CC will throw out a number. That’s the book you read! More detailed rules are below.
And my 20 are:
1. Oliver Twist
2. Howard’s End
3. Watership Down
4. Rabbit, Run
5. The Scarlet Letter
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles
7. Shakespeare’s Sonnets
8. Picture of Dorian Gray
9. Jude the Obscure
10. Villette
11. Mayor of Casterbridge
12. Age of Innocence
13. The Bride of Lammermoore
14. Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
15. Mrs. Dalloway
16. The Bell Jar
17. Little Women
18. Of Mice and Men
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls
20. David Copperfield
CC Rules:
It’s easy. At your blog, by next Monday, Feb 10, list your choice of any classic 20 books.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these 20 books in February & March. (Details follow.) So, try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
Next Monday, 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 April 2. We’ll have a check in here in April, to see who made it the whole way and finished the spin book.
Twitter hashtag: #ccspin
February 6, 2014 at 1:15 pm
I just read both David Copperfield and Mrs. Dalloway and enjoyed both of them (yet both are very different books). You have two Thomas Hardy on your list; I’ve tended to avoid him because his books are rather depressing but I know I must get around to reading him sooner or later.
Best of luck on your Spin!
February 6, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Thank you. I’ve picked up Mrs.Dalloway several times and just couldn’t get into it. Maybe this will make me read more than a few pages! I’m a sucker for Hardy’s work. He’s one of my favorite authors. Don’t know what that says about me..:-)