It’s easy. At your blog, by next Monday, May 20, list your choice of any twenty books you’ve left to read from your Classics Club list – in a separate post.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in May & June. (Details follow.) So, try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books 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.)
Next Monday, 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 July 1. We’ll have a check in post for July, to see who made it the whole way and finished the spin book.
Not too tough, right? I'm going to be honest though - I'm not really challenging myself with my choices. I figure the challenging bit can come when I'm actually finished with school, and I can stick to my plan of fun reading during this summer break. Though, maybe some of these titles are more challenging than I expect? I guess I'll find out - here are my 20 books:
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Junky by William Burroughs
- The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
- Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Can't wait to see what number comes up!
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