The Classics Club has revealed the number for the 5th Classics Club spin and that number is
And the book I’ll be lucky enough to read is ……
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
I’m really happy I got this book, I’ve wanted to read this for some time now and now I’m finally going to get the chance 🙂
It is time for another  Classics Club Spin! The books I have picked are all currently at the top of my to-be-read list and am dying to read them all. So here’s my list 🙂
I don’t know which one I want to read most but I will be happy with any of them. Now comes the wait to find out which number is picks 🙂
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And the lucky book I’ll be reading is….
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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This was one of the ones I least wanted to read but I’ll take it all in my stride and give it a go.
It could turn to be better than I thought.
Good luck to everyone else participating 🙂
The Classics Spin is back again. Since my attempt in the first spin failed miserably, I thought I’d give it ago again.
So here’s my Spin list:
There’s a few I’m hoping for, but we’ll see which one I end up with 🙂
“So many books, so little time.”
– Frank Zappa
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
I really look forward to reading this, I think it will be a great book to start off my reading experience with 🙂
The folks over at The Classics Club are holding a challenge were you pick 20 books from your Classics Club List and on Monday they will pick a number between 1 and 20. Which ever book you have for that number is the book you read by April 1.
This will be the first book I’ll be reading off my Classics Club List.
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So on with my list 🙂
1. Emma – Jane Austen
2. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
5. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
6. Germinal – Emile Zola
7. North & South – Elizabeth Gaskell
8. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
9. The Scarlett Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
11. Animal Farm – George Orwell
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
13. Frankestein – Mary Shelley
14. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
16. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
17. Sense & Sensibility – Jane Austen
18. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
19. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
20.The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
Let the Spin Begin
So I decided to read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens over Christmas last year, I thought it’s Christmas I’ll have plenty of time to read this.
Boy was I wrong.
Christmas happened to be at our house this year, which ended up being the most crazy four days of my life. We had relatives coming and going all four days, we had meal after meal after meal to make and then came dessert.
I also had my cat sleeping in my room, which resulted in her waking me up at all hours of the night, leaving me tired everyday.
So in the end reading was the furthest thing from my mind.
But I’m determined to read it this year, it is now one of my new years resolutions. Third time lucky hopefully.
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
(Pride & Prejudice)
I finally decided to take part in The Classics Club Monthly Meme. I have been wanting to do this for the last few months but never got around to it, now I am.
What is your favourite memory of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Have you ever read it? If not, will you? Why should others read it rather then relying on the film adaption?
I started reading A Christmas Carol earlier this year but only got  a few pages in then stopped. I’ve been wanting to go back to it all year but never did, until now.
I thought what  a better time to read it then Christmas, so it is now sitting on my bedside table ready for when I finish the book I’m currently reading.
This will be my first Dickens book and I look forward to reading it and all his other books.
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