Spin List! #38
Update: The spin has spun, and we have landed with . . . #17, A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh! As a wretched Shakespearean lead might say, So. . . Following dismal failure during the previous Spin I return to the scene with hopes of a better performance. Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, my Spin book from April, is still progressing with 249 pages left as of this date. Judgement has been lenient: the promised banishment to Scotland's wildest archipelago has yet to be pronounced, with Idaho serving as my prison, various forms of potato as my fare. I hope to finish it in the near future, however, and to make my first review-post soon after! I look forward to it immensely! But as I say, I am back in the ring and am going to try to finish this Spin on time, if for nothing else, then the fear of being sent to Utah! iocus iocus omnia iocari Therefore, it gives me great pleasure to announce my intention to continue with the Spin, and to put here, before you ...