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Sunday, June 12, 2022

Classics Club Spin is here again

 


Classics Club Spin is here again!

What is the spin and how you can participate:

It’s easy. Before next Sunday, June 12th, create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list, or classic books you still want to read.

This is your Spin List.

You will have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.

When making your list try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you have been putting off, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favourite author, re-reads, ancients, non-fiction, books in translation — whatever you choose.)

On Sunday, June 12th, The CC team will post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by the 7th August, 2022. That’s a six week reading window for this spin. You may like to stack your list with books that you know are do-able for you within that time frame.

What’s Next?

  • Pick twenty books classic books you want to read.
  • Post that list, numbered 1-20, before Sunday, 7th August on your blog or other social media accounts.
  • The CC Team will announce a number from 1-20. And I will repost that number here.
  • Read that book by 7th August, 2022.

This is meant to be a fun, social way to read another book from your classics club list. It is very relaxed about how you set it up, they simply want you to read more classics!

My Classics Spin List (I've decided to be a bit more general this time, selecting authors mostly rather than that many specific titles)

  1.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey 
  2.  Something by Faulkner 
  3.  Something by Anne Bronte 
  4.  Something by George Eliot
  5. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
  6. Something by Shakespeare 
  7. Something by Virginia Woolf 
  8. Something by DuMaurier 
  9. Something by Elizabeth Gaskill 
  10. Something by Pym 
  11. Something by Calvino
  12. Something on my Pulitzer Prize list 
  13. Frankenstein by Shelley 
  14. Something by Christie 
  15. Something by Bradbury 
  16. Something by Steinbeck 
  17. Something by Wodehouse 
  18. Something on my Pulitzer Prize list 
  19. Something on my Pulitzer Prize list 
  20. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

And the winner is...

# 5 Grapes of Wrath!

No more excuses, Anne. Read it now.

-Anne

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