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| The Classic Club - Spin #20 |
Time for another Classic spin. It is a favourite challenge of mine and guide me towards reading the classics. I have updated my list with five new books, since I managed to read a few classics outside the last spin. I am happy about that. Here is my updated spin list.
1. The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakov
2. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carter
3. Daisy Miller by Henry James
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj
6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
7. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
8. Child Harold by Lord Byron
9. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
11. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
12. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
13. A Merchant in Venice by William Shakespeare
14. Jaget och det undermedvetna (Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Ich und dem Unbewußten)
by C.G. Jung
15. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
16. Moments of being by Virginia Woolf
17. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
18. The Divine Comedy by Dante (reading)
19. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
20. A Writer's Notebook by Somerset Maugham
My
50 classics list is here. I am nearing the end with these last 20 books, so will start a new list. Looking forward seeing which book will come up and what you are given to read.
Looks like a fun list. I've got House of Mirth on my spin list as well, but as #17. Hope you get a good choice.
ReplyDeleteI try to ease it up with a little bit lighter literature from time to time. I liked your list as well. I left a comment. I will definitely add the Forsyte Saga on my list in the future.
DeleteOrlando's on my list too, at #11. Now to wait and see what the number is.
ReplyDeleteA much heard of novel, that would be interesting to read. I have only read To the Lighthouse by her (and thinking of it A Room of Once Own) and loved the first one. The second one is somewhat difference and not a novel in this sense.
Deleteso many good one. I wish you for #1! Though you need a good translation with many notes, to really totally understand what it's all about. It's heavily crypted because of the Communist censure of the time and place. if you get it, let me know, I'll give you resources
ReplyDeleteI will have to get it from somewhere, since I don't have it. I usually download from Manybooks.net. Will have to check out. Will let you know.
DeleteIf you get The House of Mirth, you are in for a treat; my favourite Wharton and among my all-time favourites!! I'm reading The Divine Comedy right now and loving it. I've also recently heard good reports about Tom Jones. Have a great spin, Lisbeth!
ReplyDeleteThank you Cleo, Wharton has been on my radar for a while, and it will be good to start this way. I am also reading The Divine Comedy, taking a chapter at the time. I think one has to read one chapter at a time, in order to consider the words and the meaning. Have not read anything by Fielding, so this would be good to start with. Although, I think it is rather long as well.
DeleteAnna Karenina SHOULD be on my list, but I intentionally left it off as I have at least four other chunksters on the list that I'm planning on reading this year regardless of whether they make the Spin or not.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping for a page turner!
It has been on and off my list. Just put it back again. I would love to read it, but it is a chunkster and will take some time. But, if the writing is good, it should not be such a problem, once your into it. The story, I think, we all know.
DeleteWe share a couple of authors this spin, but as a good Aussie, I wish you The Book Thief this spin :-)
ReplyDeleteAh, I did not know he was Australian. I did try to start the book once before, but there was something in the way it was written that put me off. Friends have said to continue over the first chapters and then you are into it. A spin no. 2 will be a good way to start this book again. All reviews are raving.
ReplyDeleteI loved the Divine Comedy, though it would be long for me for a spin (slow reader!). I thought The Grapes of Wrath was really good, too, though a bit bleak at times. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI go really slowly with The Divine Comedy. Just a chapter at the time. I remember seeing Grapes of Wrath when I was young, but does not remember too much. Although I do remember Henry Fonda. Looking forward reading it soon.
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