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Classics Club Spin: The Winner Is…

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The Classics Club announced the Spin number today:

8

Which means I’ll be reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.  I’ll take a look at the book later today and figure out if I want to do a readalong.

  1.  Albee, Edward: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  3. Atwood, Margaret: A Handmaid’s Tale
  4. Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
  5. Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
  6. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  7. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
  8. Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  9. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
  10. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
  11. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
  12. Milton, John: Paradise Lost
  13. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
  14. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
  15. Goethe, Johann: Faust
  16. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
  17. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
  18. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
  19. de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
  20. Swift, Jonathon: Gulliver’s Travels

Classics Club Spin #12

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It’s that time again!  The Classics Club is doing another Spin.  Below is my Spin list.  On Monday, a number between 1 and 20 will be chosen, and I’ll be reading the book from my list that corresponds with that number.  I’ll have until May 2nd to finish it.  Depending on which book it is, I might do a read-along.

  1.  Albee, Edward: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  3. Atwood, Margaret: A Handmaid’s Tale
  4. Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
  5. Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
  6. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  7. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
  8. Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  9. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
  10. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
  11. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
  12. Milton, John: Paradise Lost
  13. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
  14. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
  15. Goethe, Johann: Faust
  16. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
  17. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
  18. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
  19. de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
  20. Swift, Jonathon: Gulliver’s Travels

Classics Club: And the Winner Is….

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The Classics Club posted the Spin number – 19!  Below is my Spin list.  I’ll be reading Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.  I’ll have until February 1st to finish it.  I haven’t yet decided whether or not I’ll do a read-along, but if I do, it won’t start until after Christmas.  If you’re interested, say so in the comments.

  1. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
  2. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  3. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
  4. London, Jack: White Fang
  5. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  6. Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
  7. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
  8. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
  9. Gogol, Nikolay: Dead Souls
  10. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
  11. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
  12. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
  13.  Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  14. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
  15. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  16. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
  17. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
  18. de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
  19. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
  20. Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist

Classics Club Spin #11

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It’s that time again!  The Classics Club is doing another Spin.  Below is my Spin list.  On Monday, a number between 1 and 20 will be chosen, and I’ll be reading the book from my list that corresponds with that number.  I’ll have until February 1st to finish it.  As always, depending on which book it is, I might do a read-along.  However, for the sake of the Holidays, I won’t start it until after Christmas.

  1. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
  2. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  3. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
  4. London, Jack: White Fang
  5. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  6. Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
  7. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
  8. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
  9. Gogol, Nikolay: Dead Souls
  10. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
  11. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
  12. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
  13.  Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  14. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
  15. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  16. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
  17. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
  18. de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
  19. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
  20. Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist

The Classics Club Spin: And the Winner Is…

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The Classics Club Spin number is 5!  Below is my list of the twenty books I chose from my Classics Club List for this Spin.  I apparently tempted fate a little too much by mentioning I had deliberately put off reading The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. However, when I opened the digital copy I have I realized two things: It’s incomplete, and it’s an unreadable combination of scanned original pages and digitized text.

I couldn’t think of any other way of fairly picking another book from the list, so I asked the Boyfriend to choose a number between 1 and 20.  He said 19, which means I’m reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.  I’ve got until October 23rd to finish it, which shouldn’t be a problem.

I will be doing a read-along, but it won’t start until Monday, September 7th.  If you would like to join me, leave a comment.  I’ll make an official post with a link up next week.

  1. Albee, Edward: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  3. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
  4. Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  5. Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron
  6. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
  7. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
  8. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
  9. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
  10. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
  11. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  12. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
  13. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
  14. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  15. Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage
  16. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  17. de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
  18. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
  19. Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
  20. Swift, Jonathon: Gulliver’s Travels

The Classics Club Spin #10: My Spin List

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The Classics Club is doing another Spin!  Below is my list of twenty books I haven’t yet read taken from my Classics Club List.  I chose books that I already own, and that feel at least sort of like Autumn to me (though I can’t explain why because I’ve never read these books). Some of them are lengthy and more difficult reads, some of them are short and should be easy to get through, and some of them I’ve deliberately put off (I’m looking at you Decameron).  On Monday, a number will be chosen, and I’ll be reading the corresponding book.  Depending on which book it is, I may or may not do a read-along.

  1. Albee, Edward: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  3. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
  4. Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  5. Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron
  6. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
  7. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
  8. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
  9. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
  10. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
  11. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  12. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
  13. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
  14. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  15. Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage
  16. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  17. de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
  18. Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
  19. Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
  20. Swift, Jonathon: Gulliver’s Travels

Read-Along: The House of Spirits

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My book for the Classics Club Spin #9 is The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende, and as with the last Spin, I’m doing a read-along.  You don’t have to be a member of the Classics Club, but if you are, feel free to leave a comment with a link to your list!  Below is the chapter breakdown that will take us all the way to May 15th.  Each week, I’ll do a recap, and at the end I’ll do an overall review of the book.  If you’d like to join me, please add yourself to the linky!

  • April 6th – 12th: Chapters 1 and 2
  • Apr. 13th – 19th: Chapters 3, 4, and 5
  • Apr. 20th – 26th: Chapters 6 and 7
  • Apr. 27th – May 3rd: Chapters 8 and 9
  • May 4th – 10th: Chapters 10, 11, and 12
  • May 11th – 15th: Chapter 13 to the end of the book

The Classics Club Spin #9: Drum Roll Please….

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The Classics Spin is a “lottery” game in which each participant makes a list of 20 books from their Classics Club reading list, and the book that corresponds with the randomly chosen number on that list is the one that has to be read by a certain date.  In this Spin, the number is 2, and the book has to be read by May 15th.  Below is my Spin list, with a link to Goodreads for the book I’ll be reading.  As with the last Spin, I’m going to do a read-along.  For now, if you’d like to join in, leave a comment, and I’ll get a linky up before the end of the week, along with all the details of the read-along.

1. Albee, Edward: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Allende, Isabel: The House of the Spirits
3. Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
4. Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
5. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
6. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
7. Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
8. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
9. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
10. Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
11. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
12. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
13. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
14. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
15. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
16. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
17. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
18. Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage
19. de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
20. Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club

The Classics Club Spin #9

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The Classics Spin is a “lottery” game in which each participant makes a list of 20 books from their Classics Club reading list, and the book that corresponds with the randomly chosen number on that list is the one that has to be read by a certain date.  In this Spin, the number will be chosen on April 6th, and the book has to be read by May 15th.  Below is my list.  I’ll post which book I’ll be reading after the 6th, and, as with the last Spin, I might do a read-along.

1. Albee, Edward: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Allende, Isabel: The House of the Spirits
3. Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
4. Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
5. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
6. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
7. Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
8. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night
9. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
10. Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
11. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
12. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
13. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
14. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
15. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
16. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
17. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
18. Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage
19. de Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince
20. Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club

The Classics Club Spin #8: And the Winner is…

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#13

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

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I’ll be doing a read-along, starting Monday Nov. 24th, which coincides with the beginning of Book Week Scotland.  The read-along will run through Jan. 4th, for a total of 6 weeks, which will hopefully make the reading more manageable than if I were to confine it to a month.  I’ll be announcing the read-along tomorrow, with all the details and a sign-up.