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All Because of You
In which I talk about some of the most amazing books I’ve read this year and the equally amazing bloggers who made me do it. (For today’s Book Blogger Appreciation Week meme, which is: about that book....
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Woolf in Winter
Dare I say Woolf intimidates me? I have never had the courage to attempt her until Tuesday gave me a nudge. And I’ve been mustering courage since, almost a year ago. Now the time has come. The date’s...
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Mrs Dalloway
I have just now finished reading Mrs Dalloway and not sure what’s going to come out of this post. How to describe it? I don’t think I’m capable. It’s not that it overwhelmed me; I was surprised that...
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To the Lighthouse
How do I describe something that has moved me beyond words? I am shaken to the core by its sadness, its beauty. Sitting here, a little teary-eyed, heart thumping, I want to say: Reader, if you fancy...
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To the Lighthouse (Reprise)
Extracted from The Guardian, September 7th 2002, Margaret Atwood on reading To the Lighthouse the second time around: How could I have missed it – above all, the patterns, the artistry – the first...
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Orlando
I had no previous inkling as to what Orlando was about other than that Frances said it was Virginia Woolf’s love letter to Vita Sackville-West; thus, am I ever grateful for the Penguin Modern Classics...
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The Waves
The painting above is Sunset at Sea by Alan Hogan. My friend Michel, who is reading along with us, likened The Waves to a pointillist painting. Virginia Woolf effused Mrs Dalloway and To the...
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I promise this is my final Woolf in Winter post.
A little reminder to the Woolf in Winter participants. There’re a number of new posts that I linked to in The Waves discussion, so you might want to visit those who just recently put their thoughts up....
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The learned man vs the reader
From The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel: Virginia Woolf once tried to distinguish between the man who loves learning and the man who loves reading and concluded that “there is no connection...
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