Spining in 2016
I was planning to blog about March reading plans and get myself a pat on the back for adhering so well to the Jan and Feb reading plans; however as I opened wordpress, I saw a notification from The Classic Club, a notification that I just could not ignore! It was naturally for a Spin event, the #12 in the series and the first one of 2016. Over the years I have read such wonderful books as well as some oh!-I-can-so-have-done-without-this books through the Spin, but they have all been an uniformly enriching and interesting experience! Therefore there was no way in the world I was missing this spin. The rules remain simple as always and I quote directly from the The Classic Club Page –
- At your blog, by next Monday, March 7, list your choice of any twenty books you’ve left to read from your Classics Club list — in a separate post.
- This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in March & April. (Details follow.) So, try to challenge yourself.
- Next Monday, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to
- read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by May 2, 2016.
Thus, the List –
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- The Wings of Dove by Henry James
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- The Name of a Rose by Umberto Eco
- A Room with a View by M Forster
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- The House of Seven Gables by Nathanie Hawthorne
- Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- As I lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- Hunger by Knut Hamsum
- I Claudius by Robert Graves
Finally I now sit back and await Monday!
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Best of luck for a great title! I haven’t read any of these, so I can’t send out an “I hope you get ____,” but I hope you get something good. 🙂
Thank You! They are formidable so I am keeping my fingers crossed! You have some great titles as well! Happy Spinning! 🙂
Oh, your list is scary, to me at least. I would pray for Death Comes for the Archbishop or the Tempest (love that play!). Have a great spin and I will quake for you when Monday comes. 🙂
hahhaaaaa…Cleo, I can bet my bottom dollar that if I get something interesting on Monday, you will be the first one to join! Scary or not!
Ooh, several of those are on my own reading list!
Well Stefanie, you know I follow your lead always! 🙂
Wonderful list! I loved your numbers 8 and 9, but Marquez is one of favorite authors, so 1 or 14 would be good, too. Enjoy, whichever one you get.
Thank You!! Happy reading to you too!
Great list! Of Human Bondage is just wonderful, one of my all-time favorites — it’s long, but absolutely worth it. A Room with a View is also wonderful, I’ve read it many times. Scoop is pretty hilarious (and a quick read); and I recently finished Return of the Native, which I really enjoyed. If you like audiobooks, there’s an edition narrated by Alan Rickman that is wonderful if you can get your hands on it. Good luck with your spin pick!
Thank you. I have read some Maugham, but not all. This was my mom’s favorite too! I have really developed a deep liking for Forster and I hope to read all his works one day! Alan Rickman…wow!! I am not much of audiobook fan but Rickman is Rickman! Thank You and happy reading to you too!
Lovely list. I have read 10, 13, and 14. Although I didn’t get along with ‘A Room With A View’, I adored the other two books. Happy reading! 🙂
Thank You! I have been planning to read Marquez forever, never got around to it! Really hoping this time lucky!
I’m very nervous about including Death in Venice this time around – I’m not sure I’m in the mood for it, although if I have a reading buddy that might make it easier 🙂
Happy Spinning!
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/cc-spin-12.html
hahhhaaaaa…Brona! Done! Death In Venice is formidable and a reading buddy is most needed! Lets do it…if its not part of the Spin, sometime in the upcoming months!
I just saw that the CC Spin is #8, so you get Cather. So far, I have thoroughly enjoyed three of her books – well, Song of the Lark was a little slow moving – but I am anxious to read Death Comes for the Archbishop! Hope you enjoy it.
Thank you and this is the first time that I have gotten something I wanted to read as part of the Spin! I LOVE Cather and this is something I have been dying to read forever!
Oh, I LOVED Death Comes for the Archbishop! So lovely (that sounds weird, considering the title!)! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Thanks Cleo! I love Cather…so I am just happy to get a Spin book I really wanted!
Oh, didn’t the spin fall well for you?! I love Willa Cather and Death Comes for the Archbishop is such a good book.
Jane…I agree…first time I got a Spin I wanted! 😉