The Classics Club Spin #13

The Classics Club is doing another Classics Club Spin. This is the fourth time that I'm participating and I couldn't be happier! In this event, all the Classics Club members are called to read a classic book within a certain amount of time. But it's not that simple. Each one who wants to participate makes a Spin list, then the Club announces a certain number and the book that it's in that list's number is the one that you have to read.

So, here is my list for list #13:

1. Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
2. A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne
3. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
4. The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham
5. The Rainbow, by D.H. Lawrence
6. The Atom Station, by Halldor Laxness
7. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. The Good Woman of Setzuan, by Bertolt Brecht
9. The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10. Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott
11. Beauty and Sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata
12. A Sport and a Pastime, by James Salter
13. Brave New World, by Aldous Haxley
14. The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
15. Utopia, by Thomas More
16. Gothic Tales, by Elizabeth Gaskell
17. The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse
18. A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
19. Nemesis, by Isaac Asimov
20. Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima

This is it! From these books I'm more eager to read Nemesis, Gothic Tales, and The Big Sleep. Moreover, Beauty and Sadness and Confessions of a Mask would be very welcome, as I'm fond of Japanese literature. I dread to read The Gambler, Utopia, and The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. On Monday, we'll know which will be the lucky book I'll have to read until August 1, 2016.

The Classics Club Spin #12

The Classics Club is doing another Classics Club Spin. In this event, all the Classics Club members are called to read a classic book within a certain amount of time. But it's not that simple. Each one who wants to participate makes a Spin list, then the Club announces a certain number and the book that it's in that list's number is the one that you have to read.

So, here is my list for spin #12:

1. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
2. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
3. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
4. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
6. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
7. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
9. The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori
10. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
13. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
14. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
15. Utopia  by Thomas More
16. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
17. The Atom Station by Halldor Laxness
18. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
19. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
20. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

I can't wait to find out, which book I'll have to read until May 2, 2016.

The Classics Club Spin #10

The Classics Club is doing another Classics Club Spin. In this event, all the Classics Club members are called to read a classic book within a certain amount of time. But it's not that simple. Each one who wants to participate makes a Spin list, then the Club announces a certain number and the book that it's in that list's number is the one that you have to read. In the last spin, I read Dracula by Bram Stoker. I can't wait to find out which classic I'll have to read for this one!

So, here is my list:

1. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
2. Nana by Emile Zola
3. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot
4. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
5. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
6. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
8. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
9. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
10. Howards End by E.M.Forster
11. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
12. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
13. La Dame aux Camelias by Alexander Dumas-fis
14. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
15. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
17. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
18. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
19. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
20. Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore

From these books I'm eager to read Wives and Daughters, Sons and Lovers, Parade's End and Howards End.  The ones I am afraid of are Nana, Lorna Doone, Flatland and La Dame aux Camelias. Anyway, on Monday we'll learn the lucky number.

The Classics Club Spin #9

The Classics Club is doing another Classics Club Spin. In this event, all the Classics Club members are called to read a classic book within a certain amount of time. But it's not that simple. Each one who wants to participate makes a Spin list, then the Club announces a certain number and the book that it's in that list's number is the one that you have to read. This is the first time that I am taking part in the Spin and I'm really excited about it.

So here is my Spin list:

1. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
3. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
4. Howards End by E. M. Forster
5. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
6. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
7. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
9. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
10. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
11. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
12. Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
13. The Strange Case of Dr. Jackyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
14. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
15. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
17. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. Nana by Emile Zola
19. La Dame aux Camelias by Alexander Dumas-fis
20. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

This is my list of 20 books. I haven't read any of this books and I've been meaning to for quite some time. Of course, there are some titles that I'm dreading, like Nana, Lorna Doone, Little Dorrit and La Dame aux Camelias. I hope that I will be lucky in my first Classics Club Spin.