Changing blogging domain and site

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Dear blogger friends, Lately, I had a few problems with the Blogger web site for my blog The Content Reader . I took this as a sign that I should finally create a web site of my own. I have been checking out other options, but could not get my act together. Finally, I have managed to create a basic web site with Wix, which I hope will be developed over time.  It has not been easy to find my way around. One thing one can say about Blogger is that it is easy to work with.  This site will no longer be updated Follow me to my new domain @  thecontentreader.com Hope to see you there.  Lisbeth @ The Content Reader
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Classic Spin #25

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The Classic Club has announced another Classic spin. This will take us over Christmas and New Year for the deadline of 30 January 2021. The spin will take place on Sunday 22nd November 2020, so make sure you update your list. You should read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.

There is a problem with Pages in Blogger so all my pages disappeared. It is said they are working on it, but so far no solution it seems. Therefore I put my updated list in this post.

Hope to see you on Sunday and am looking forward to seeing what is awaiting us. 


My spin list (updated 19 November 2020, for spin #25

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. The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakov
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. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
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. Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
19. The Brothers Karamazov by Fjodor Dostojevskij
20. A Writer's Notebook by Somerset Maugham


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  1. reese21 November 2020 at 05:14

    I just read Master and Margarita over the summer and I thought it was really good. Death Comes for the Archbishop is my favorite Cather.

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    1. Lisbeth 21 November 2020 at 13:43

      I read Master... a very long time ago, but I think I did not appreciate then as I might do now. I have heard so much about Cather but never read anything by her. Looking forward for when the spin will end on her number.

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  2. Marianne 22 November 2020 at 13:37

    A great list. I've read #s 4, 5, and 19 so far but a few others are on my TBR pile.

    My Spin List #25 is a little different, though a lot of the books are similar to yours.

    Which number would you like it to be this month?

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    1. Lisbeth 24 November 2020 at 12:32

      I am quite pleased with Jung's book. It has been on my shelves for a long time. It is not so thick so hopefully I manage to finish it.

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