I wasn't sure whether to participate in the Classics Club 'Classics Spin'. You could say I was on the fence. But now I am thoroughly off the fence, in the garden and raring to go. The challenge is to choice 20 books from your classics list that you have yet to read (no cheating...you've got to pick tricky ones too). On Monday (18th) the Club will post a number from 1-20 and you have to read whichever book is on that number by the 1st April. Do-able? I think so.
Five I'm dreading (please, no!)
1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. What Maisie Knew by Henry James
4. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
5. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Five I can't wait to read
6. Save me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
7. The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham
8. The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
9. Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
10. Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Five neutral (aka books I need a kick up the backside to get cracking and read)
11. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
12. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
13. Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
14. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
15. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Five by authors I have never read
16. The Stranger by Albert Camus
17. Beloved by Toni Morrison
18. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
19. Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
20. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
I'm certainly keeping my fingers crossed that particular numbers won't be chosen (namely 1-5!) but in the spirit of reading I will read whichever book is chosen with much goodwill and general excitment.
Good luck to everyone who is taking part, I'm hoping no-one gets stuck with reading Ulysses or Pamela or anything equally terrifying!
The suspense is killing me...
