The Classics Circuit

The purpose of The Classics Circuit is to encourage the reading of classic works by celebrating them through book blogs. We’re currently focusing on the older classics written by authors who are now deceased.

This site is a gathering place for links to reviews of classics on blogs throughout the blogosphere. Reviews will not appear on this site, but rather on the sites of participant bloggers.

The Process

The process is one for the entire blogging community. First, readers suggest books or authors that they would like to see promoted via a tour; one needs not to have read a work or author to make a suggestion.

Then, we will collectively vote for an  author for the upcoming tour(s). Selected authors may then be scheduled for an upcoming tour. Interested bloggers request to be a participant in a tour and will be assigned a day that The Classics Circuit will visit their blog. We will provide links to participating blogs on this site.

Participants will be expected to post a review or other item of interest relating to the tour on the assigned day The Classics Circuit will visit their blog. Because classics are so familiar, participants may choose to approach their selected tour day in a creative manner, such as with an “author interview.” If a participant intends to provide a “creative approach” to the book or author, we’ll mention it in the tour “line up.”

The Goal

We hope that your favorite classics might also appeal to others. This is a chance to promote your favorites to the reading and blogging world! Of course, just as with any other blog tour, participants in The Classics Circuit may give negative feedback about a classic they’ve read, but as an advocate to the classics, you are willing to encourage a tour  all the same. There may be value to all types of discussion of the classics.

The Present Status

Because this is a new concept, we’ll be doing a trial author tour in the coming months (November and December 2009). Based on your feedback (what you liked or not), we may adjust the design for future tours.

Thank you so much for your eagerness to read and promote the classics on the web! This should be fun!

The Committee

If you’d like to help out behind the scenes, send an email to rebecca [at] rebeccareid [dot] com. You do not need to have a blog to help.

Rebecca Reid (Rebecca Reads)
Eva (A Striped Armchair)
Trisha (Eclectic/Eccentric)
Bella (A Bibliophile’s Bookshelf)
Becky (Becky’s Book Reviews)
Christine (booktumbling)
Cara (Ooh…Books)
Teresa (Shelf Love)
Chris (book-a-rama)
Jessica (The Bluestocking Society)
Melissa W (Scuffed Slippers and Wormy Books)
Grace (Books Like Breathing)
Michelle (Michelle’s Masterful Musings)
Kay (Kay’s Bookshelf)
Nicole (Linus’s Blanket)
Trish (Trish’s Reading Nook)
Stephanie (Stephanie’s Confession of a Book-a-holic)

updated 4 Nov 2009