What Is the Number?

It is number 12! Which just happens to be Larkrise to Candleford by Flora Thompson. Previously, I had watched the tv series and then found out it was based on these books by Flora Thompson (which she wrote semi-autobiography on about her experiences of village life in England during the 1880's). I know from experience that there isn't a whole lot of dialogue in this book, and that is a complaint from some people I have seen. Plus, they think it will be like the tv series with lots of story line. That doesn't bother me as I think being really descriptive of that type of life to me then allows you to vision it better. Last time I read a chapter of it and really enjoyed it. What is your Spin book?

Classics Club Blog Spin Book

It is time for another spin list, and according to the Classics Club blog this is number 15. I have not partaken in all of them, and when I have not completed all of the books. You have until Friday to make your list (until May 1st to finish it), and then they will put out the number. So people choose their books in a variety of ways, some all books they want to read, some they are dreading and others a a mixture of those. For myself I am going to go with classic books from my list that I haven't finished (which is the first 13 books), wether they were part of a spin or my reading them on my own (this excludes one or two that I have given up on trying to read).

1. Jane Eyre 
2. The Adventures of Tom Saywer 
3. War and Peace
4. Little Women
5. Sense and Sensibility
6. Walden and Civil Disobedience
7. Germinal
8. The House of the Dead
9. Little Dorritt
10. Poor Folk and other Stories
11. The Idiot
12. Larkrise to Candleford
13. The Secret Garden
14. Barnaby Rudge
15. The Outsiders
16. The Oregon Trail
17. My Antonia
18. Wives and Daughters
19. The Awakening
20. Rights of Man

Time for another Classic Club Spin

  The Classics Club has announced that there is going to be another Spin #9, so I will find out next Monday, April 6th what my book will be. I have until Friday May 15th to finish the book that is chosen. In case you don't know what the classics club spin is, here are more details of the "rules". Last time I got and finished the book The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, before that I didn't do too well in finishing the spin books, so my list below includes some former "spin" books (they will be marked with an asterisk).

1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte*
2. The Railway Children by E. Nesbitt*
3. The Secret Garden by Hodgson Burnett*
4. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
5. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The Republic by Plato
7. Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
8. The Idiot by Fyodor Doestoevsky
9. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
11. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
12. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
13. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
14. The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
15. Private Yankee Doodle by J.P. Martin
16. The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
17. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
18. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
19. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
20. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Classics Club Spin 4 List

 

 

The Classics Club is having another Spin! In the past previous Spins I have participated in, I had picked mostly a mixture of books I wanted to really read, so-so, or "scary" books. I need to read a good enjoyable and relaxing book, so I will only add books I want to read on my list. After all there isn't any official "rules", so it is all good. =0) I will find out on Monday what I will be reading and need to finish it by Jan., 1, 2014. Here are the choices it could be:

1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
5. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
7. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
9. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
10. Persuasion by Jane Austen
11. Larkrise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
12. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
13. Five Little Peppers & How They Grow by Margaret Sidney
14. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
15. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
16. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
17. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
18. Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
19. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
20. Private Yankee Doodle by J.P. Martin

Joining others in reading Jane Eyre

Ok, I will admit Jane Eyre is my September Spin List book that I should be reading. However, I saw a fellow classic clubber Kerry was having a Jane Eyre read along. So I figured I would join in. I have never read anything by Charlotte Bronte. The only Bronte I ever read, was the book Wuthering Heights, and I was not a fan. Perhaps I will be surprised, and enjoy it after all.

What's On Your Nightstand? August 2013

I didn't get as much accomplished as I had previously thought I would be able to over this month. Not sure how much I will get accomplished on my to do list for the Classic Club, but looking forward to some of the books I will get from publishers. Classes started last week and I will be reading as a stress reliever for sure!

Reviews of Books that I Read:

Forever Friday -This advanced reader's copy is being given away, check out the link in order to sign up for it. End's today!!!!

A Bride For All Seasons

The Winnowing Season

Currently Reading:

Emma-really enjoying it so far

Need to start for the Classic Club from last month:

Sense and Sensibility
The Railway Children
Heart of Darkness
Jane Eyre for this month's Spin book

Read and Review for Booksneeze:


 I will be reading Hopelifter


Read and Review for Blogging For Books:

I will be reading For Every Season

Read and Review for Tyndale:

I will be reading Born of Persuasion

The Spin Book pick....

The winner for this Spin challenge for me is number four, so I will be reading Jane Eyre. I hope that I like it, but once I came across the most recent movie and watched a few minutes of it, and didn't care for it. So this was one book on my Classics Club blog where I was not looking forward to reading this book right now. I hope that I end up enjoying it though, and plan on starting it later on this week. 

Another Spin!

The Classics Club is having another spin event. I never did finish my last spin book, The Railway Children, so I will be listing it. Last week I was out of the area and not able to post my list for the spin, so I am doing that now. I know that the spin number has already been listed but haven't looked to see what the number is. I am going to have every other book be one that I want to read and then one that I don't necessarily want to right now. Without further ado, here is my spin list:

1. The Railway Children-previously started
2. Heart of Darkness -previously started
3. Treasure Island
4. Jane Eyre
5. Walden and Civil Disobedience
6. Othello
7. Kidnapped
8. Lord Jim
9. The Outsiders
10. The Republic
11. Little Women
12. Rights of Man
13. The Magican's Nephew
14. Eight Cousins
15. The Death of Ivan Illych
16. Wives and Daughters
17. Mere Christianity
18. The Grapes of Wrath
19. Child of the Dark
20. Larkrise to Candleford

Behind on Classics Club and other things....

I have gotten really behind in reading books that are on my classics club list. I was unable to finish or even get halfway into my Spin List book of The Railway Children by time the event ended. I hope to get more books read in the next month though.

 

Lest you think it is just reading that has gotten behind, it is also my crafts and love of writing as well. While in some ways I have gotten better in feeling better in others not as much or at all. I made this quilt block about a month ago. It only took me about a half hour or a little more with the sewing and cutting, but unfortunately paid for it afterwards by being in pain in my hands and arms that lasted for hours. Love this block though and hope to make lots of them sometime in the coming months. Enough typing for today as my hands are causing me problems now.

Classic Club Spin...and tv shows

The number chosen for the classic club spin was 6, so I have started reading The Railway Children. I still need to get back to reading The Heart of Darkness too as well for my regular classic club book (I have been a little slow on reading it).

Lately, I have started watching some BBC shows (as well as those taking place in the UK) and really enjoyed them. Unfortunately most of them are now off the air in the UK so no new episodes, but still I enjoy the reruns that are aired here in the states. I have even gotten some of them on DVD, books that were the original inspiration of the show, and sadly even one show is not available for region 1 dvd (so sad). Here are the shows, does anyone else have some favorite new shows they have found?

Amazon has Black Books available for instant viewing.

Sadly the DVD's for Ladies of Letters is only available for region 2. However, at least the book that was the inspiration for the tv show is available to read!

Love this show, which combines mystery drama with gardening in various ways. I couldn't resist getting all of the seasons of Rosemary and Thyme.

We watched all ten seasons of this MI-5, and sadly missing that there will not be any new ones.

At least we are still able to enjoy watching Dr. Who.

Love this series about rural life in the UK during the 1800's, can't wait to read the book.

 

Can't wait until the new season of Foyle's War comes on and that of Downton Abbey!

Results of Classics Spin....

The number picked for the Classics Spin is number 14, so I will be reading;

I already started but need to finish Oliver Twist first. I have seen the 1995 movie version of Pride and Prejudice but never read the book. While reading a little bit today, I kept on imagining the scenes from the movie, lol.

Classics Spin.....

The Classics Club is having has the option of us clubbers to participate in the Classics Spin, basically we pick 20 books of our club list; 5 we want to read, 5 we are indifferent, 5 we don't want to read, and 5 others. Then we number them, tomorrow on Monday Feb. 18th they will then list one number, whatever number matches on a clubbers list, we then have until April 1 to finish reading the book.

If you want to join click on the button;



Books I want to read:

Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Larkrise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Emma by Jane Austen
Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens

5 other books:
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
 North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Books I am indifferent:

Germinal by Emile Zola
The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Five Little Peppers & How They Grow by Margaret Sidney

Books I am dreading:

Othello by William Shakespeare
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Heart of Darkness & Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Here is my list, I am mixing it up the order;

1. Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
3. Germinal by Emile Zola
4.Othello by William Shakespeare
5.Larkrise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
6. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
7.The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
8.My Antonia by Willa Cather
9.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
10.Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Heart of Darkness & Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
12.Emma by Jane Austen
13.The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
14.Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
15.Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
16.War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
17.Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
18.Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
19.Five Little Peppers & How They Grow by Margaret Sidney
20.The Jungle by Upton Sinclair