I'm going to try this exercise from the Classics Club -- they call it a Spin. You make a list of 20 books from what you're planning to read, and then they assign a number, and you read that number and blog about it. "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)."
Somewhat trepidation:
1. Samuel Richardson: Pamela
2. James Thomson: The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery
3. Tales of the Elders of Ireland
4. Francis Godwin: The Man in the Moone
5. Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Looking forward to:
6. J.B. Priestley, Benighted
7. Anne Fuller: The Convent
8. George Gissing: New Grub Street
9. Eliza Haywood: The Adventures of Eovaii
10. Arthur Machen: The White People and Other Stories
Most outside my usual genres:
11. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Amos Tutuola: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
13. Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener
14. Tang Xianxu: The Peony Pavilion
15. Petronius: The Satyricon
Nonfiction:
16. Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class
17. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
18. Anna Murphy Jameson: Shakespeare's Heroines, or Characteristics of Women
19. Tacitus: Agricola and Germania
20. A. E. Waite: The Holy Grail
So I'll find out the lucky winner next Monday!
UPDATE: And the winner is: A. E. Waite, The Holy Grail. So I'd better get Interlibrary Loaning.
I am currently reading The Buccaneers, by Edith Wharton, at home, and I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith, on my lunch breaks. With some breaks for Chester Hines.
Somewhat trepidation:
1. Samuel Richardson: Pamela
2. James Thomson: The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery
3. Tales of the Elders of Ireland
4. Francis Godwin: The Man in the Moone
5. Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Looking forward to:
6. J.B. Priestley, Benighted
7. Anne Fuller: The Convent
8. George Gissing: New Grub Street
9. Eliza Haywood: The Adventures of Eovaii
10. Arthur Machen: The White People and Other Stories
Most outside my usual genres:
11. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
12. Amos Tutuola: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
13. Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener
14. Tang Xianxu: The Peony Pavilion
15. Petronius: The Satyricon
Nonfiction:
16. Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class
17. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
18. Anna Murphy Jameson: Shakespeare's Heroines, or Characteristics of Women
19. Tacitus: Agricola and Germania
20. A. E. Waite: The Holy Grail
So I'll find out the lucky winner next Monday!
UPDATE: And the winner is: A. E. Waite, The Holy Grail. So I'd better get Interlibrary Loaning.
I am currently reading The Buccaneers, by Edith Wharton, at home, and I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith, on my lunch breaks. With some breaks for Chester Hines.
Wow! You have some listed that I've never even heard of. I see some investigation is in order. ;-) If the number 1 came up would you be in shock? I want to read Pamela but the length is intimidating. Tacitus would be interesting.
ReplyDeleteI Capture the Castle is a wonderful read and Wharton's writing is Wow! I was blown away by her House of Mirth and I really need to read more of her works.
Good luck with your Spin Challenge!
Pamela is very daunting to me because I've tried to read it before and found it VERY dull, so I always dropped it. However, I've read Samuel Richardson's other books and loved them. So that's one I'm determined to read, but kind of dread trying again. :)
ReplyDeleteI am very fond of To Kill a Mockingbird (my son is named Atticus) and I Capture the Castle is an absolute favorite!
ReplyDeleteTo Kill a Mockingbird is wonderful! I hope you love that when you come to it.
ReplyDeleteDon't be afraid of Pamela - I admit it's not awesome (Clarissa is far better), but it's not as scary as it seems :)
I'll be interested to see what you make of George Gissing - he's an author I've been meaning to read for a while but haven't got to yet.