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The Classic Club Spin #26 took place yesterday and gave us # 11. For me, that number is Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Since I do not have that book with me where I am now, I will take the next book on the list, which is The Wings of the Dove  by Henry James. A favourite author and a book I wanted to read for some time, so please with that. I hope you all got an interesting book as your number 11. Enjoy!

  The time has come for another Classic Club Spin, #26 . To join, prepare your list of 20 books before Sunday 18 April, 2021. The book with the number from the spin should be read by 31 May, 2021 . I am still on my first 50 classic book list, but the non-read books do not cover the 20 list, so I am happy to have started on my second list; 51-100, although the list is still not filled with 50 books. I let myself be inspired by your choices and add books as I find them interesting.  My 1-50 classics My 51-100 classics Here is my updated list for the spin. 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. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence 7. Child Harold by Lord Byron 8. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9. The Red and the Black by Stendhal 10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 11. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 12. The Wings ...

Time for another spin challenge from the Classic Club. The rules are simple: Go to your blog. Pick twenty CHUNKSTER books that you've got left to read from your Classics Club List. Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Tuesday 27th November . We'll announce a number from 1-20.  Read that book by 31st January 2019. I am pleased to notice that I only have 27 books to go on my 50 classics to read. After having read the 20 on my shortlist, there are only 7 to go. There are of course hundreds waiting in the line to be put on the list. One step at the time though. Here is my updated list (published and updated under Memes ). 1. Washington Square by Henry James 2. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carter 3. Daisy Miller by Henry James 4. Karin Lavransdotter by Sigrid Undset 5. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (reading) 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...

It is time for a lucky spin with the Classic Club . The lucky number is 4. I updated my list at the last minute and on number 4 is  Kristin Lavransdotter by Sigrid Undset. It is a rather thick book with small text, so hope I can make it until the end of December. Sigrid Undset received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928 based on this work of historical fiction. It is a trilogy covering The Wreath, first published in 1920, The Wife , published in 1921 and The Cross , published in 1922. Looking forward reading this classic tale. Have you read it? What do you think about it? See you back in December for the review, or maybe in January!