What is Classics Spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 21st July 2024 create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list. This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period. On 21st July, 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 the 22nd September 2024.
UPDATE: I'm going to read #17: A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON (Muriel Spark)
My list
- Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)
- Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Barbara Comyns)
- Miss Buncle's Book (D.E. Stevenson)
- Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell)
- Miss Plum and Miss Penny (Dorothy Evelyn Smith)
- Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
- A Far Cry from Kensington (Muriel Spark)
- Cider with Rosie (Laurie Lee)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)
- Something New: Blandings Castle #1 (P.G. Wodehouse)
- Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)
- Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Barbara Comyns)
- Miss Buncle's Book (D.E. Stevenson)
- Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell)
- Miss Plum and Miss Penny (Dorothy Evelyn Smith)
- Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome)
- A Far Cry from Kensington (Muriel Spark)
- Cider with Rosie (Laurie Lee)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)
- Something New: Blandings Castle #1 (P.G. Wodehouse)
As you can see for yourself, there are only ten on the list, which I doubled up to make it twenty. I’m just being lazy, and don’t have time to think of ten more. And I’ve just realized that eight of the ten are by women writers, and six of ten are new writers for me - splendid! I have just found an audio version of Barbara Comyns’ Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, and would love that to be picked, but I’ll be delighted to read any one of them anyway.
Have you read any on my list? Any favorites? And if you’re a Classics-Clubber, would you join #CCSpin too?
Good idea. I've done something similar when my initial list of 50 was coming to an end. Now, I just add two more or however much I read since the last list and that's that. But I might go back to that idea.
ReplyDeleteI have not read any of your books but Cranford and Cider with Rosie is on my wishlist, I've read a few by P.G. Wodehouse and wouldn't mind some of the others, so it's a good list for me. Thanks.
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DeleteA Wodehouse every now and then are certainly what we need these days!
Truer words have seldom be spoken.
DeleteExcellent Women, Cranford, Miss Buncle's Book and From the Mixed-Up Files are four favorite books of mine. So I hope you get one of those. :D
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling I would love those four too! ;)
DeleteI hope you spin one of the Barbara's - I've read one of them and want to read the other!
ReplyDeleteGood luck :-)
Let me guess... Pym's the one you've read, and Comyns' the one you want to. If so, we have same feelings. I'm thinking of reading Comyns, despite it' not being spinned. :)
DeleteI also chose just ten titles this time. I loved Excellent Women and Three Men in a Boat---I hope you draw one of these.
ReplyDeleteGiving each book more chance to get spinned, right? ;)
DeleteI've been reading Barbara Pym lately, but haven't yet read Excellent Women. Hope you get that!
ReplyDeleteI didn't! -_-'
DeleteBut I will read in anyway, maybe next month... or next...
I hope #17 is a good one!
ReplyDeleteI have not read anything by Muriel Spark, so I looked up A Far Cry from Kensington and it sounds like a good read. I look forward to your review.
ReplyDeleteYou have several others on your list that I want to read.