Classics Club Spin – August 2013
This might be the Classics Club’s third spin but it’s our
first! Hosted by the Classics Club, the idea is to choose 20 books we haven’t
yet read from our original Classics Club Challenge list – and list them. On 19
August, the Classics Club will spin the bottle (or something) to pick a number
from 1-20. The number picked is matched
to the corresponding book title on our spin list and we need to read that book
by 1 October.
The idea is to include some titles that might challenge us.
We’re both going to try and read the same book, so this list was jointly selected - rather quickly too! You’ll see that a couple of numbers have two titles next
to them. That’s because Little M really wants to read them but M’s already read
them for the Challenge so the second title is M’s option. And of course, not all
of these books are on our shelves either, so getting them in good time will be
another challenge!
Our spin list
Because we’re scared of them (but have them both):
1. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell2. Ulysses – James Joyce
New for Little M (but dreaded re-reads for M so obviously we don’t have these):
3. Lord of the Flies – William Golding4. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Never got around to reading (yes, we have them):
5. Jock of the Bushveld – Percy Fitzpatrick6. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
7. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
M’s Old favourites (re-reads for M so have them all; new for Little M)
8. Thunderhead – Mary O’Hara9. A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula le Guin
10. A Dream of Sadler’s Wells – Lorna Hill
11. The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
12. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Because we want to (have most):
13. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee / Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kastner14. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
15. Tamar – Mal Peet
Old classics (have all):
16. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte17. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte / The Trial – Franz Kafka
Playful! (no, we don’t have them):
18. Hamlet - Shakespeare19. Othello - Shakespeare
20. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
OOh, Ulysses. Good luck if you get that one! I studied it at uni and it rather difficult. And extremely heavy...
ReplyDeleteYou mean you actually finished it?! I did Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Shorter - probably more accessible too??!!! I'm dreading Lord of the Flies more though. That gave me cold shivers when I first read it.
DeleteIt's no.4 which means The Hobbit for us. Interesting thing about the spin: it tells you a lot about your attitude to choosing a book to read. Both of us aren't so keen.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't quite make it. We purchased a copy of the novel but neither of us have started to read it yet!
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