I’m playing The Classics Club Spin!
Directions
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you have left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Try to challenge yourself: list five 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.)
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog by next Monday 2/18.
- Monday morning, we’ll announce a number from 1-20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted, and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce.
- The challenge is to read that book by April 1, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading!
My Lists
Books I’m excited to read for the first time:
1. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
3. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
4. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
5. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allen Poe
Books I’m excited to revisit:
6. Animal Farm – George Orwell
7. 1984 – George Orwell
8. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
9. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Lewis Stevenson
10. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Books I’m dreading (aka, those I had to read in school and disliked):
11. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
12. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
13. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
14. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
15. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Books I’m neutral about:
16. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
17. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
18. The Brothers Karamzov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
I’m really hoping the number is 3, 6, 8, 9, or 10. I really hope it’s NOT 12 or 13 (a Dickens fan I am not).
Are you playing? Tell me in the comments what you hope the number is—and what you hope it isn’t!
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I’m rooting for 7 and 10 on my list. I would not my 16 on your list.
I’m trying not to root for anything or I’ll be dreadfully disappointed! :-/ …in fact, I just know if I stare at my list long enough I’ll start hoping I get this, that and the other thing…so I’m not even thinking about it.
You’ve got a coupld of biggies on your list!! Good luck.
Thanks! I really just hope it ends up being a book I already have and I don’t have to go out and buy one.
You do have some chunksters there! I’m hoping for any number between 1 – 10 from list. Good luck with the draw.
Thanks, you too!
Great list you have. I’m hoping for 2,3,7,8, & 20
Thanks! Good luck!
I’m spinning too. I really like your revisit section. Like you, I am also excited about Les Miserables, but to think I’d have to finish it in about a month is… daunting
Then again, I put War and Peace in my list so who am I to say anything :p I think Anna Karenina is one of those especially delicious books, but only if you are into that kind of stuff (meaning if you are into attempting to navigate amongst a little big pile of characters who all have Russian names). Good luck!
Ahh, I’m so bad at reading books with unfamiliar names!! That’s part of the reason why it’s so hard for me to get into fantasy…when I can’t pronounce someone’s name in my head I forget who they are. Oops.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by, and good luck!
I am halfway through an audio book of Huckleberry Finn. I began it in the middle of last year, and couldn’t finish it. I hope to some day!…the narration I was listening to was really good, but the story was dreadfully boring. Maybe I should pick up a print/e-copy…reading might make it easier…?
Anyway, all the best with the draw!
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