The Spin number is here

The Spin number was given out this morning, and it's....

This number has the appropriate feel, I think
Oh, waily waily! as the Nac Mac Feegle would say.  My title -- for a very jolly Christmas read -- is Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, the newish Oliver Ready translation, which I've actually been quite excited about, but I'm not too sure about reading it over Christmas.  It's not exactly cozy.


I feel like the bosun in Tim's Last Voyage.  I don't know if you're familiar with the Little Tim books by Ardizzone (if you're not, you should be!), but in this one, a terrible storm engulfs the ship where Tim is signed on as a cabin boy.  The bosun takes to his room in a cowardly manner and unhelpfully howls "Doom" at everybody.



The funny thing is that I'm always putting a book I'm scared of into the #1 spot, on the obviously untenable and mathematically illiterate grounds that it's somehow less likely than the others.  Brona informs me that this is the THIRD time the Spin has landed on #1, and last time it got me Faulkner's Light in August, which I hated.  I do at least like Dostoevsky!  Next time, I'll put something ridiculously easy in that #1 spot.


Comments

  1. Ha ha! The book gods got you! ;-) I should read along with you. I started this one but like many books this year, I stalled and didn't finish. And I was enjoying it although not as much as the Brothers Karamazov. We'll see ....

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  2. Oh, they got me good this time. :) What translation were you reading? I've got this new one and it looks really good. Read with me!

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  3. That cover looks like Ebenezer Scrooge with an ax. Bah humbug!

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  4. Ah,it maybe not seem the cozy Christmas read; however, the ending (can I just say it?) is full of redemption and reconciliation. It's sort of Christmas-y themed, right?

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  5. Oh wow, that's a very intimidating Classics Club choice! I wish you very good luck -- I read this years ago, and I think I gave it a fair shake, but it just wasn't for me. (Russian literature overall might not be for me.) At least your cover has a wonderful cover!

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