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.

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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

Making some bread....

Recently, I purchased a Lodge cast iron dutch oven after finding a bread recipe on Simply So Good. I proofed it yesterday for about 24 hours, here it is rising:

After shaping it into a ball, I ended up putting olive oil and kosher salt on top of mine, even though the recipe didn't call for this.

Here was the end result, it tasted pretty good. I think next time I will add the olive oil and more kosher salt after the bread has been baked. Might also add some italian herbs perhaps.

Jan Book Giveaway Winner...

Since I only had one person interested in this book by default Starwood Quilter won the Union Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini. Congratulations! I will be emailing you in order to send out the book. If anyone is interested for what book was selected for Feb check out the book giveaway tab.

First 2013 WIPocalypse post...

Let me introduce myself just in case you have never read my blog. I am a housewife and college student. I enjoy cross stitching, hand quilting, crocheting, tatting, and reading. I want to also try bobbin lace.  I hope to be able to accomplish quite a bit for this year's challenge. If you want to join follow this link. Most of the items I will be working on I had originally planned on doing last year. I was never able to start them. Below is the only one that I was able to start. It will be a gift for my sister.

This is how it will eventually look like:

Here are my other projects, most of them will be gifts. I may add a few more to the list later.

A Season for Tending review..

I finished reading A Season for Tending by Cindy Woodsmall. This is my second review for my outdo yourself reading challenge. I have read books by Cindy Woodsmall before and am a huge fan of amish books. The main character in this book is Rhoda who  is a young amish women who lives with her parents and siblings (along with sister in laws and neices/nephews). She loves to have a garden and help people with her herbs. However, she has a unique gift that make some Englischer's and amish alike afraid of her. She ends up meeting Samuel King who along with his family own King's Apple Orchards. You actually find out more and feel more connected to Samuel's family, and his girlfriend Catherine than Rhoda's family (they are more in the back ground). I do wish that there was more in depth characters in Rhoda's family. At first I wasn't too much of a fan of Leah, Samuel's sister, but she grew on me. I never did care for Catherine's character and am still leery of her. There are a few secrets that several characters have, some you find out and others you don't find out everything. I can't wait for the second book in the series to see what will occur. I give this book 4 out of 5.

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