My Head Is Full of Books: Classics Club Spin #28 --- for Victober

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Classics Club Spin #28 --- for Victober

I'm combining two challenges: The Classics Club Spin (the 28th such spin) and Victober, which is designed to encourage the reading of books by Victorian authors during the month of October. Victoria was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) so the authors I will consider were publishing during those dates and are from UK, Ireland, or the Commonwealth.

Instead of titles of books, this time I'm listing Victorian authors. When the spin number is announced on Oct. 17th, I will select a book by the winning author.

1. Dickens

2. Shelley

3. Bronte, Anne

4. Bronte, Emily

5. Bronte Charlotte

6. Eliot

7. Hardy

8. Gaskell

9. Wilde

10. Kipling

11. Collins

12. Stevenson

13. Doyle

14. Stoker

15. Wells

16. Thackeray

17. Gissing

18. Rossetti

19. Montgomery

20. Conrad

Join me by creating your own list of classic books you want to read 1-20. On October 17th a number will be spun and that is the book you will read by Dec. 12th.

Update: The Spin number is 12. So I will be reading something by Robert Louis Stevenson. Can you help me make a choice?