Happy… Wednesday, whoops.  Sorry I missed you on Monday.  I had a big work thing that morning and I was completely consumed with it – to the point of stressing about it for days leading up, and dreaming about it all night.  Needless to say, everything else (other work and personal) flew out of my head until that was over.  And now it is, and obviously I’m behind on everything that I neglected while I was buried under that project.  I’ll have a regular Monday post for you next week, promise.

In the meantime, it recently occurred to me to check and see if there was another Classics Club spin coming up.  It’s been a long time – years? – since I participated in one.  As a reminder, The Classics Club periodically runs “spin” events in which participants list twenty unread books from their personal challenge lists on their blogs, and then the Club “spins” a (virtual) disk to come up with a number, and whatever number book that is on your list, you read within a prescribed period.  I’ve been struggling to pick up any book as the pandemic stretches on and life gets busier and busier, so the timing was just right – for me – for another spin, and as luck would have it there’s a new one posted.  The Classics Club will announce the spin number on August 9, and the reading period lasts until September 30 – plenty of time!

So without further preface, here’s my list for Classics Club Spin #24:

Five Chunksters

• 1. The Greek Myths, by Robert Graves
• 2. East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
• 3. Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope
• 4. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
• 5. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

Five by Women

• 6. Delta Wedding, by Eudora Welty
• 7. The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
• 8. The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather
• 9. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
• 10. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte

Five by BIPOC Authors

• 11. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
• 12. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
• 13. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
• 14. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
• 15. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

Five I Can’t Wait To Read

• 16. The Worshipful Lucia, by E. F. Benson
• 17. Sylvia’s Lovers, by Elizabeth Gaskell
• 18. The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens
• 19. The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 20. Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte

There we have it!  It was actually a bit of a challenge even making this list, because I’ve been making surprisingly good progress on my list (currrent challenge scheduled for completion in July, 2023).  I’m down to not much more than twenty unread, total.  But this should be a good spark to knock off one of the books that’s lingered on the list – and if the spin choice ends up being one of the few I don’t own, it will also be a good spark to go get a library card at my new local library (still on the to-do list, post move).  The choice will be announced on August 9, and I’ll let you know next Wednesday which of these titles I will be picking up next.

Happy (classic) reading to all of us!