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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Classics Club Spin #37


It's that time again for another Classics Club Spin Selection.

Here's what you need to know if you want to participate:
  1. Create a list of 20 classic books you'd still like to read.
  2. Post that list before April 21st.
  3. Watch the Classics Club site on 4/21 for the Spin #.
  4. Whatever book you have listed on that number is the book you will read.
  5. Complete, or try to complete, that book by June 2nd.
  6. If you want, share your review on the CC site.
  7. Easy!

My list of Twenty Classics for Spin #37 -- Spring 2024

        1.   Iliad by Homer

  1. 2         Something by Forester, E.M

    3.       Something by Anne Bronte

    4.       Something by Sylvia Plath

    5.       Something by James Baldwin

    6.       Something by Shakespeare

    7.       Something by Dostoevsky

    8.       Something by Woolf

    9.       Something by Elizabeth Gaskill

    10.   Something by Pym

    11.   Something by Hardy

    12.   Something by Bellow

    13.   Something by Tolstoy

    14.   Something by Highsmith

    15.   Something by Bradbury

    16.   Something by Dickens

    17.  Something by Muriel Sparks

    18.   Something by Hawthorne

    19.   Grimm’s Fairy Tales

    20.   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 
And the winner is.....


EIGHT!

Looks like I will be reading something by Virginia Woolf. I'll see what the library has available right now and let you know what I pick.

-Anne
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