It's time for a spin, and it's time for me to do a spin, since I was haven't managed to sign up for the last couple. The organizing post for spin #42 is here, but you probably know all that so let's go straight to the list of books:
1.) Apollonius Rhodius/Argonautica (3rd century BC)
2.) Lucan/On the Civil War (Pharsalia) (65 AD)
3.) Luiz Vaz de Camões/The Lusiads (1572)
4.) Alexandre Dumas/The Black Tulip (1850)
5.) John Ruskin/Unto This Last (1860)6.) Charles Darwin/The Voyage of the Beagle (1860)
7.) Robert Louis Stevenson/An Inland Voyage (1878)
8.) Wilkie Collins/The Fallen Leaves (1879)
9.) Gottfried Keller/Green Henry (1879)
10.) Machado de Assis/Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881)
11.) Knut Hamsun/Hunger (1890)
12.) Andrei Bely/Petersburg (1922)
13.) Mikhail Bulgakov/Heart of a Dog (1925)
14.) Theodore Dreiser/An American Tragedy (1925)
15.) Sinclair Lewis/Elmer Gantry (1927)
16.) Katharine Anne Porter/Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
17.) Dawn Powell/A Time to be Born (1942)
18.) Eudora Welty/Delta Wedding (1946)
19.) Harry Mark Petrakis/A Dream of Kings (1966)
20.) Robert Pirsig/Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)It's been since last year I signed up for a spin, and even then, though I read the book--Statius' Thebaid--I never managed to blog about it.
There's a couple of scary chunky numbers on this list: The Voyage of the Beagle, An American Tragedy, Green Henry, but there's two months so that should be OK. I'm particularly keen to read An American Tragedy this year for its hundredth birthday; there are a couple of 1925 challenges on. But it also feels like a political moment in history, and Unto This Last or Elmer Gantry would be fitting.
This Sunday will reveal all. Which look good to you?
I liked An American Tragedy. I really like the way Dreiser writes...so I kind of hope you spin that one. :D
ReplyDeleteI've liked everything else I've read by Dreiser, so I expect I'd like this one. But it does sound grim!
DeleteThat's a dynamite list you have. I like the looks of # 4, 6 and 20!
ReplyDeleteThose would be good spins! (Though #6 is a chunkster...)
DeleteI have read some of your authors (Dumas, Stevenson, Collins, Keller, Hamsun, Bulgakov) but none of your books.
ReplyDeleteI do have The Black Tulip on my TBR pile, though, it will probably turn up in my next list.
Good luck.
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Dumas and Stevenson are pretty fun authors so those would be nice spins.
DeleteNeat!
ReplyDeleteI have only read 3 here.
My favorite is 13. Weird but so good
I loved Master and Margherita so I'd expect I'd like Heart of a Dog.
DeleteI've not heard of a number of these books! I have The Black Tulip on my TBR though. I've heard it's pretty good. I loved The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas!
ReplyDeleteMonte Cristo and Three Musketeers are so much fun. Black Tulip would be a good spin!
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