Spin List #41 — the Spin has Spun!

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I am impatient as the wind to begin reading, as joy is all I feel upon spinning, number 11:


Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Now: to find some laudanum and a large, white seabird . . .



A NEW SPIN LIST!



You spin me right round, baby, right round . . .

We wait 'til next Sunday to settle into another great Spin—the fifth since I began Clubbing!—hopefully to finish. Here is my list; all I know is that to me these books look like they're lots of fun!

Good luck to all!


1. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Greyfriars Bobby, Eleanor Atkinson
3. The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
4. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
5. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
6. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
7. Trilby, George du Maurier
8. The Warden, Anthony Trollope
9. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
10. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
11. Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
13. Howards End, E. M. Forster
14. The Four Feathers, A. E. W. Mason
15. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
16. Emma, Jane Austen
17. The Lark, E. Nesbit
18. Persuasion, Jane Austen
19. The Lost Princess; or, The Wise Woman, George MacDonald
20. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson


Comments

  1. KellyMonday, June 09, 2025

    I've only read a few from your list. I just finished Brideshead Revisited recently, so I'll wish that one for you. I hope you enjoy whatever the spin brings!

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    1. ElizabethMonday, June 09, 2025

      I'd love to get any of them, but I have my fingers especially crossed for Brideshead. Thank you, and ditto!

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  2. Deb Nance at ReaderbuzzThursday, June 12, 2025

    Good luck with your spin! You have a couple on your list that are new to me including Greyfriars Bobby.

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    1. ElizabethThursday, June 12, 2025

      Thank you! Yes, I found that one in a used bookstore and though I'd never heard of it either it looked to be something I'd like. I found out later that it's based on true events: a dog waiting at his master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard. There may also be some connection to Burke and Hare—?! Who knows what it will bring . . .

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    2. Deb Nance at ReaderbuzzSaturday, June 14, 2025

      Interesting!

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  3. Mary R.Saturday, June 14, 2025

    You have some excellent titles on your list. If the number is 12 we will be reading the same book!

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    1. ElizabethSaturday, June 14, 2025

      Thank you!
      So we would! How fun! I love looking to see if titles match up on the Spin Lists. They rarely do, but sometimes!
      The best of spins to you!

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  4. TracyKSunday, June 15, 2025

    Congratulations on getting Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge. New to me but it sounds very good.

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    1. ElizabethSunday, June 15, 2025

      Thank you! A highlight of First Wave Romanticism, so to speak; I'm very much looking forward to it. I hope you enjoy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—new to me in turn!

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