Classical Carousel

Sigh!  I usually get excited about the Classics Club Spin but this time, between my failures to finish my last spins and the load of books I...

I was going to resist the spin this time.  I have too many books on the go and too many of them are atrociously difficult, or inordinately h...

 Number 8 Well, this was a very good choice for me.  I've been trying to read through Anthony Trollope's The Barsetshire Ch...

I really wasn't certain whether I wanted to participate in the new Classics Club spin.  My last spin was a fail; I read the ...

"The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us." I read this book ...

Number 19 !! Oh, my!  This means that I'll be reading C.S. Lewis'   God in the Dock . Yikes.  On one hand, I ...

Well,  my last spin  was a fail, so I was humming-and-hawing over whether I should do this one, but ........ I really need to start...

 Number 5 So the book that I'll be reading is The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by John Gibson Lockhart. I'm act...

I wasn't going to participate in this Classics Club Spin .  I am so behind with my reading due to various family matters that have taken...

"If the reader will excuse me, I will say nothing of my antecedents, nor of the circumstances which led me to leave my native count...

Number 2 !! Which, of course, means that I'll be reading Samuel Butler's Erewhon . I'm happy with this choic...

It seems like it's been a long time between Spins.  My last one was a gem .........   Gulliver's Travels .  I can only hope to get a...

"My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons." As Samuel Johnson stated, Gulliver's Trav...