What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday, October 19th, 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 Sunday, October 19th, The Classics Club will post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by Sunday, December 21st.
Let's see who can make it the whole way and finish their spin book!
I have an almost brand-new Classics Club list. Let's see where the needle stops.
So here is my list.
1. Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasure by J. Frank Dobie
2. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
3. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
4. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
5. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
7. Afoot in England by W. H. Hudson
8. Brendon Chase by B. B.
9. Bevis: The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
10. In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim
11. Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
12. Warrior Scarlett by Rosemary Sutcliff
13. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
14. One Man's Meat by E. B. White
15. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
16. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
17. The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels
18. Miss Carter and the Ilfrit by Susan Alice Kirby
19. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
20. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Have you read any of these?
Do you recommend any of these?
Hi Deb, it's great you got to spend time with family. I haven't read any on your list, but I love the donkey.title.
ReplyDeleteYour book list is interesting. I’ve read around half the authors represented, though not necessarily the book that’s on the list. Great that you have so many visitors, but your area is a magnet for tourism so you have a better chance of visitors than some of us in other parts of the country!
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On my side of the family reunions are very straightforward. I have a daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren. That’s it! They all live at far away (five to six and a half hour drive) so reunions with all present don’t happen often!
ReplyDeleteI love that you’re able to spend so much time with family. Have a wonderful reunion and weekend Deb.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Parnassus on Wheels more than The Haunted Bookshop by Morley, it's the only one I have read by your list. I love that you get to spend so much time with your family. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteI've read three on your list - Hardy, Hesse, and Lewis - all of them so long ago that I barely remember what I read. Most of our family gets together (at our house) for Thanksgiving. The ones who are far away ( North Carolina) come in mid-December for an early Christmas visit and everyone gathers at our house again. So I guess we have two (sort of) family reunions.
ReplyDeleteDeb, so happy you've gotten to spend time with family and will have even more family time. As to your list of books for the spin - I haven't read any of them. Good luck with whatever is picked. Beautiful double rainbow!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you're getting so much family time in!
ReplyDeleteI loved and read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books over and over as a child and into my 20s. I'm always happy to see people reading them :-)
Hope you enjoy a lovely weekend!
I'll be with family, too, this week. Just getting on the road in an hour to head south for a reunion of sorts.
ReplyDeleteI also want to read Invisible Cities, the only book we have in common on our SPIN list. May the SPIN gods picka good number!
You have a very long spin list! Best of luck with the reading.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are having a nice visit.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of those books, but it could become my new TBR list. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI read Far From the Madding Crowd in high school when I was way too young to get much out of it.
ReplyDeleteTime with family is the best way to spend time!
ReplyDeleteTime with family is always time well spent. Cherish the memories as we never know what the future will bring. I hope you have a fabulous week!
ReplyDeleteJust wondering if you've seen any FAMILY lately?
ReplyDeleteGood times with family! Love the butterflies and that double rainbow! So pretty. Have a wonderful week, Deb!
ReplyDeleteI read Babbit (...good classic). Now about to read The Glass Bead by Hermann Hesse, his magnum opus, for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. This book checks more boxes: GermanLitMonth - Reading the Nobels - SciFiMonth25!
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ReplyDeleteLots of great family time! I read all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a kid. I loved them. That’s quite a classics list! I’m impressed, and will be eager to hear what you think about each of them. And congrats on your Duolingo Spanish! I’m doing Italian on Duolingo. I’m on day 229. I’m not sure about level.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds nice to be close with so many members of your family! Sounds like you've been having a good time.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are so pretty! And I love the Classics Spin List :) My list is in my head - it is messy in there! I think I want to pick up Alice in Wonderland soon.
ReplyDeleteHow awesome that you have been able to visit with so much family lately!!
ReplyDeleteI’m envious that your extended family is so close, enjoy your time with them!
ReplyDeleteWishing you a wonderful week!
Glad you've had some family visits, nice. I like your Classics list ... and how you've chosen some different titles by the authors .... off the beaten path! I'm curious about reading the memoir books by Langston Hughes, so that one appeals to me most perhaps. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteLevel 20! Bravo! And I love that you've been able to have good family time!
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to have so many visits with family! I can just imagine the giggles, the stories and all of you catching up each other's lives. I remember the Ingall's series. You know, my daughter's family still enjoys watching the series. I haven't read any of your Spin books but am looking forward to reading your thoughts on them. Don't you love double rainbows? Congratulations on making it to level 20! When I saw your photos, I immediately thought, "Those would be a lovely pallet for a quilt!". Happy reading to you!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a busy week. I'm glad you had a chance to be with family. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteLove that you are spending so much time with family! Hope you have a great week!
ReplyDeleteGlad you are having family fun time. Have a good week.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to have spent time with your family:). And thank you for sharing your lovely pics - those butterflies are stunning. As for the classic books - the only one I've read and loved, is Far From the Madding Crowd. For Hardy, it's relatively cheerful. There's a wonderful passage in it when Gabriel Oak is describing life with Bathsheba - how they will sit either side of the fire with the clock ticking in between them and when he looks up from reading in the evening, there she will be and when she looks up, there he will be... Even as a flighty know-nothing of 16 - which was when I read the book, I yearned for that kind of relationship. And luckily I eventually got it:)). Have a lovely week Deb. I hope you enjoy Seraphina as much as I did!
ReplyDeleteWriting a gratitude list is very helpful sometimes when I have had so much incredible stress while driving for a ride chair, I would count off in my head 100 or even 400 things that I was grateful for in order to get through the tough times
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on level 20 Spanish! You are my Duolingo inspiration. I've got a 27 day streak in German so far, aspiring to follow in your footsteps.
ReplyDeleteSimply seeing the cover of Little House in the Big Woods brings me joy and takes me back to my childhood. I loved that book (and the others in the series). Regarding the Classic Spin, I recommend both books by Willa Cather. I think it'd be fun to read all of her books again. Maybe in 2026... Enjoy your family time! We have relatives coming from Durham, NC in a couple of weeks, so that will be fun. Then, of course ,Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Enjoy your week!
ReplyDeleteFar from the madding crowd is the only one I've read!
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Sadly, I don't think i own 20 unread classics? Actually, how old does a book need to be in order to have the classic designation?
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