Earlier in the week, I shared a post with my list of books for the newest Classics Club Spin challenge (see it here), and today, this spin’s number was announced. (For those keeping track, it’s CCSpin #44, and for me personally, #16!)
Hosted by The Classics Club blog, the Classics Club Spin is a reading adventure where participants come up with a list of classics they’d like to read, number them 1 to 20, and then read the book that corresponds to the “spin” number that comes up.
For CCSpin #44, the lucky number is:
And that means I’ll be reading:
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Published 1941
Synopsis:
Bored and restless in London’s Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside with her restlessness and thirst for adventure as her only guides. Eventually Dona lands in remote Navron, looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. She finds the passion her spirit craves in the love of a daring French pirate who is being hunted by all of Cornwall. Together, they embark upon a quest rife with danger and glory, one which bestows upon Dona the ultimate choice: sacrifice her lover to certain death or risk her own life to save him.
And here’s a synopsis from another edition:
A lady bound by duty. A pirate who lives by desire. Together, they risk everything in a historical romance of freedom, danger, and forbidden love.
Restless in London’s rigid society, Lady Dona St. Columb escapes to the Cornish coast. There, shadowed creeks conceal a daring French privateer who offers the adventure she craves. Their secret encounters unfold in a world of stolen passion, dangerous choices, and the intoxicating pull of a gothic love story that defies every convention.
I’m excited! I’ve had a whole slew of Daphne du Maurier books on my TBR for what feels like ages, and I’m happy to have a push to actually get started. To be honest, I hadn’t looked into the plot of Frenchman’s Creek at all before today… and learning that it’s a pirate story makes me even more eager to read it.
What do you think of my spin result this time around?
I’ll be back to share my thoughts before July 5th!
Are you participating in this Classics Club Spin? If so, what book will you be reading?
Here’s my list of 20 titles for Classics Club Spin #44:
- The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
- Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick
- This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- White Fang by Jack London
- Anna and Her Daughters by D. E. Stevenson
- Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
- Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne DuMaurier
- Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery
- Peony by Pearl Buck
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Frederica by Georgette Heyer
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
- Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem Aleichem
- Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson
- Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Under the Rainbow by Susan Scarlett
My previous Classics Club Spin books:
CCSpin29: The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
CCSpin30: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
CCSpin31: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
CCSpin32: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
CCSpin33: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
CCSpin34: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
CCSpin35: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
CCSpin36: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
CCSpin37: Howards End by E. M. Forster
CCSpin38: The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
CCSpin39: An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
CCSpin40: Dracula by Bram Stoker
CCSpin41: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
CCSpin42: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
CCSpin43: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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