What is the spin?It’s easy. At your blog, before next Friday, November 17th, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the year. On Friday, November 17th, 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 December 31, 2017.
I completely failed the previous Classics spin, I am going to try read the book for spin #15 till the end of this month, so I can consemtrate of ht e winner of spin # 16.
Here is my spin list:
1. Austen, Jane: Persuasion (1818)
2. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Idiot (1868–69)
3. Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca (1938)
4. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary (1856)
5. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1921)
6. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey (1847)
7. Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
8. Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables (1908 -39)
a. Anne of Green Gables (1908)
b. Anne of Avonlea (1909)
c. Anne of the Island (1915)
d. Anne of Windy Willows (1936)
e. Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
f. Anne of Ingleside (1939
9. Pushkin, Alexander: Tales of Belkin (1831)
a. The Shot, (Выстрел)
b. The Blizzard (Метель);
c. The Undertaker (Гробовщик);
d. Stationmaster (Станционный смотритель);
e. The Squire's Daughter (Барышня-крестьянка)
10. Pushkin, Alexander: The Captain's Daughter (1836)
11. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
12. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine (1895)
13. Turgenev, Ivan: Home of the Gentry (1859)
14. Zola, Emile: L'Assommoir 1877
15. Goncharov, Ivan: The Precipice (1869)
16. Eliot, George: Middlemarch (1871-72)
17. Hardy, Thomas: Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)
18. Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea (1939)
19. Turgenev, Ivan: Rudin (1856)
20. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80)
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