Here's the rules. :)
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Try to challenge yourself: list five you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog by next Monday.
- Monday morning, we’ll announce a number from 1-20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted, and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce.
- The challenge is to read that book by August 1, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)
It's always fun to participate in the Classic Club's spins. Sometimes it gets me to read one of the books I was putting off.
Can't Wait to Read!
1) The 39 Steps by John Buchan
2) Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
3) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4) The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley
5) The Once and Future King by T.H. White
2) Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
3) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4) The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley
5) The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Dreading Reading
6) East of Eden by John Steinbeck
7) The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
8) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
9) The Divine Comedy by Dante
10) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Feeling Neutral About
11) Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
12) Kim by Rudyard Kipling
13) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
14) Dracula by Bram Stoker
15) Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
Shakespeare
16) The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
17) Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
18) The Tempest by William Shakespeare
19) Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
20) Richard III by William Shakespeare
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East of Eden is my favourite Steinbeck (to date), so hopefully once you read it you won't feel dread any longer. But from everything I've ever heard, you have every right to dread Moby Dick :-)
ReplyDeleteEast of Eden is my favourite Steinbeck (to date), so hopefully once you read it you won't feel dread any longer. But from everything I've ever heard, you have every right to dread Moby Dick :-)
ReplyDeleteAh Don Quixote. I feel guilty for not reading that (can I really call myself well-acquainted with the world of chivalry and knighthood without doing so?) but I think I'm in need for some lighter reading after the somewhat-challenging books I've been reading of late. Good luck to you with Don Quixote though; let me know how you like it and/or if you recommend it!
ReplyDeleteDracula is one of my favorite novels. I hope you find it good.
ReplyDeleteI'm into the first part of the Purgatorio of The Divine Comedy. Slow reading but not unhelpful necessarily. The trick is to find a good translation and good annotations. I've heard the translation by Anthony Esolen is very good but I've never been able to lay hold of a copy of it.
Hope you get one of your 'can't wait' reads. The 39 steps is good, and although it's ages and ages since I read The Once and Future King (when I was a teenager) I loved it. I still have a teddy bear called after one of the characters in it... ;)
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