Monday, August 12, 2013

Categorically Spinning

The classics club spin is on again. The first one went great for me, the second one was a slog but I made it through. Let's see if the third time is a charm. Here is my list (with some categorization for the first time). 

On the list to read in the next several weeks anyway:
1- The History of England, Jane Austen
2 - To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (Sept. 2013 synch read)
3 - Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury (on my mp3 player)

Books that would count toward other reading challenges:
4 - Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte (colorful)
5 - The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (colorful)
6 - Neuromancer, William Gibson (Canadian)
7 - The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett (vintage mystery)

A random selection of books from my Classics Club shelf:
8 - The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
9 - In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
10 - The Professor's House, Willa Cather
11 - The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
12 - Dubliners, James Joyce
13 - Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
14 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
15 - A Separate Peace, John Knowles
16 - Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham 
17 - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
18 - Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey
19 - The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
20 - The Once and Future King, T. H. White

The number will be announced on Monday, 8/19 and the challenge will be to read the selected title by October 1. 

5 comments:

  1. Something Wicked This Way Comes is one of my favourite Bradbury books. Even if it doesn't come up as your spin choice, I'd recommend you read it some time.

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  2. Oh, wow. The Master and Margarita, The French Lieutenant's Woman and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest I would all put in my all time favourites' pile, and Bradbury and Capote books I liked very much, too. Great list and good luck for the spin :)

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  3. i have only heard of a few of these. But I am really interested in anything Austen! so glad i came by to see you! Happy reading!

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  4. Ooh, you have some good stuff there! I vote for The Master and Margarita. :)

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  5. Some amazing choices there! I hope you get a good one. To the Lighthouse, Rebecca and The French Lieutenant's Woman are all completely amazing.

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