Classics Spin #8 #ccspin

I haven't done this for some time and thought that with fall finally settled in, I would try this again.

Here are the guidelines:

• Go to your blog.
• Pick twenty books that you’ve got 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.
• 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 January 5, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)

Here is my list:

1. Middlemarch
2. Little Women
3. Jane Eyre
4. North and South
5. The Canterbury Tales
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
7. Madame Bovary
8. The Count of Monte Cristo
9. The Woman in White
10. War & Peace
11. Lady Susan/ The Watsons/ Sandition
12. Cranford
13. The Age of Innocence
14. Bleak House
15. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
16. Great Expectations
17. Mary Barton
18. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
19. The House of Mirth
20. The Orestia

I am probably hoping for either The Woman in White (No. 9) or The Count of Monte Cristo (No. 8), but am dreading if I get No. 10 (War & Peace) or No. 14 (Bleak House)

Classics Spin #3 #ccspin

Ok, reset.  The last one I failed at, but I did get most of the book completed.  Sadly, I had to finish The Help for my bookclub and so that took up a lot of my time, in addition to the library books that I needed to finish and return.  Anyways, I am back at it and hopefully I will be a little more successful this time around, but depending on how long it takes me to read The Thorn Birds, I don't know how much I can get done.





So here is my list:

1) The Orestia
2) Little Women
3) Northanger Abbey
4) Sense & Sensibility
5) Agnes Grey
6) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
7) The Canterbury Tales
8) The Woman in White
9) Little Dorrit
10) Middlemarch
11) Madame Bovary
12) Cranford
13) North and South
14) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
15) Antony and Cleopatra
16) As You Like It
17) Richard III
18) The Tempest
19) Jane Eyre
20) The Age of Innocence

Classics Spin #2 #ccspin

I missed the first one and really wanted to do it the last time around, so here I go.  Here is what the folks over at The Classics Club say about it:

• Go to your blog.
• Pick twenty books that you’ve got 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.
• 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 July 1, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)

Here is my list:

1. Middlemarch
2. Little Women
3. Jane Eyre
4. Emma
5. Northanger Abbey
6. Villette
7. North and South
8. Agnes Grey
9. Sense & Sensibility
10. The Canterbury Tales
11. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
12. Antony and Cleopatra
13. As You Like It
14. Twelfth Night
15. Madame Bovary
16. Much Ado About Nothing
17. Othello
18. The Tempest
19. Richard III
20. David Copperfield

I honestly don't know which one that I am hoping for, but if I did have one that I would prefer it would probably be No. 7 or 10.