Month: November 2017

The Classics Club Spin #16

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It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!  Below is my Spin list.  While I’m interested in reading all of the books on this and my master list, I’m really hoping it will be one of the books below in particular.  I’m not saying which one, though.

  1. Kafka, Franz: The Trial
  2. Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  3. Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
  4. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
  5. Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
  6. Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
  7. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
  8. Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
  9. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
  10. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
  11. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
  12. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
  13. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
  14. Gogol, Nikolay: Dead Souls
  15. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  16. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
  17. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  18. Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage
  19. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  20. Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist

The Spin number will be chosen on Friday, November 17th, and then those of us participating will have until the end of the year to read the book that corresponds to that number.
Are you participating in the Classics Club Spin?

Monday's Minutes

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“Monday’s Minutes” is a weekly post in which I track my bookish life.  All book covers are linked to Goodreads unless otherwise noted.
Currently Reading:

  • Wildwood by Colin Melot
  • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros

 
Finished:

  • My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
  • Ghost Story by Peter Straub

 
Challenges:

Total pages read this week: 670
Total # of books for the year: 89 of 95.  I upped my main reading goal again, and with any luck, I’ll have to raise it to 100 by the end of the month 🙂
This weekend was the Texas Book Festival.  I originally planned to go both days, but then I found out that Kate Milford (author of Greenglass House) and Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys) were both going to be there on Sunday, so I saved my spoons.  I’m so glad I did because the humidity was brutal and I bought so many books that I then had to lug around with me in my tote bag that I would have never made it through the day had I gone on Saturday as well.

The pic I posted on Litsy.

What are you reading this week?

#FitReaders Check-In

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  • This check-in is for October 27th – November 2nd.
  • November is going to be all about fitness for me.  I’m doing Damn Early Days again, and my goal is to walk 50,000 steps every week.  That’s a steep, but achievable, goal since I’ve been doing less than half that number of steps for awhile.
  • I finally got to a point on the virtual Appalachian Trail to read another chapter of A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.  I have also started reading A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros.

 

  • If you have a FitBit, you can find me HERE.

 

  • Steps: 23,497/50,000
  • Miles: 9.65/18
  • Total Miles: 411.66
  • Active Minutes: 133/210
  • Virtual 5Ks: 0/10
  • Total Money Donated: $4.54/$5.00