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Orlando
Orlando: A Biography | Virginia Woolf
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.
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Nathan_Opland-Dobs
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Mehso-so

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Daisey
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teg: (noun) a sheep in its second year

I know a decent number of livestock terms, but this was a new one for me.

#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday

PaperbackPirate That‘s a new one for me too. Thanks for sharing! 🤓 2mo
CBee Nice! Thanks for sharing 😊 2mo
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IndoorDame
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Pickpick

I‘ve always been a fan of Woolf‘s writing style so it‘s not a surprise that I loved this. She manages to fit all the hallmarks of an epic story into this 235 page novel, and she explores some of the questions about identity and self that I‘m most interested in. #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

Karisa 😍 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty photo! 💜🤎 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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IndoorDame
Orlando | Virginia Woolf
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#midwintersolace

Settling into my blanket nest for tonight‘s #hyggehour with my #doublespin book. I left off in the middle of the Frost Fair and I can‘t wait to get back to that magic scene!

Chrissyreadit 🤍🤍🤍🤍 2mo
TheBookHippie ♥️ 2mo
AllDebooks Wonderful ❄️ 🩵❄️ 2mo
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GatheringBooks
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#BookBinge Day 31: We share #BookishQuote(s) every Tuesday over at GatheringBooks. Here is yesterday‘s quote and also seen here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-pyq

Eggs Serene☺️ 7mo
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TheBookHippie
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#transrightsreadathon day three

The book follows the adventures of a poet who changes sex from a man to a woman and lives for centuries without aging, along the way meeting key figures in English literary history. Since its publication, the book has become a feminist mainstay and has been extensively written about by scholars of women's writing and transgender studies.

Rereading today

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

SamAnne One of my favorite Woolf novels! 12mo
TheBookHippie @SamAnne I was thinking today I‘m not sure if it‘s this one or 12mo
TheKidUpstairs I really must read more Woolf. I loved 12mo
TheBookHippie @TheKidUpstairs I just said that this morning -I need to read everything I‘ve not read. 12mo
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broughtyoubooks
Orlando | Virginia Wolf
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Bookfest Day 1: found a few good books, have previously read Crimson and the Dubliners section of James Joyce

Soubhiville Old Clive Barker! I used to devour his books. This one was 😱 1y
wanderinglynn Great haul! 1y
broughtyoubooks @Soubhiville friend picked this one up and basically threw it to me, since I'm trying to get into Clive Barker 🥰 1y
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Tonton
Orlando | Woolf V.
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Cover of the first Japanese translation of Virginia Woolf‘s Orlando (1931, trans. Oda Masanobu).

batsy Perfect cover ♥️ 2y
Tonton @batsy 🌟❣️ 2y
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Paus0312
Orlando | Virginia Woolf

“La vida es sueño. El despertar nos mata. Quien me roba los sueños,me roba la vida…”

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Paus0312
Orlando: A Biography | Virginia Woolf

“Las ilusiones son al alma lo que la atmósfera es a la tierra”

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SkeletonKey
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Zooming through Orlando. 🥰

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Paus0312
Orlando | Virginia Wolf
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Finally been able to enjoy a great book and listen to the waves

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SkeletonKey
Orlando | Virginia Wolf
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First trip to any kind of theatre in two years. The precautions made me feel safe and I really couldn‘t pass up this interpretation of a favorite. I enjoyed it so much!

Clare-Dragonfly That‘s wonderful! I really need to read this. 2y
Palimpsest I haven‘t read this and just know a smidge about it, but I love the cover design on your program. 2y
SkeletonKey @Clare-Dragonfly - I‘m going to read it next I think! 2y
SkeletonKey @Palimpsest - Agreed, they did a really great job! 2y
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Pastelsandpages
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Mehso-so

I‘ve read better classics. Started off good but got confusing towards the end and it was pretty uneventful after Orlando became a woman tbh. Also, I understand it was written during a time filled with different social standings, but all evident gender roles and assumptions of what makes a man and what makes a woman was difficult for me to absorb, even though the discussion of such in the book makes it important.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

#orlando #virginiawoolf

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vivastory
Orlando | Virginia Woolf
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For St. Patrick's Day AND to celebrate Women's History Month I thought I would post a collage of books that I love by women with green on the covers. The only one that is still TBR is the Shirley Jackson, but as a Jackson fan I'm sure I'll love it. I really like the designs for the new Penguin Vitae series!

youneverarrived The top three 👌 3y
Megabooks Fantastic! 3y
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BarbaraBB Fab choices 💚 3y
LeahBergen Oh, you are going to LOVE that Jackson. One of my faves! 💚💚 3y
batsy Oh, yes. Castle is brilliant! 3y
batsy (Greengage Tree is the only one I haven't read and all of the other picks are so good 🙌🏽) 3y
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effani
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My February #BookSpin list! @TheAromaofBooks

I'm joining @xicanti in taking February off from reading American authors, so the list looks a little different this time.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks great!! 3y
xicanti Love it! 3y
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Liz_M
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Knock, knock.
Who‘s there?
Orlando.
Orlando who?
Knock, knock.
Who‘s there?
Orlando.
Orlando who?
Knock, knock.
Who‘s there?
Orange.
Orange who?
ORANGE YOU GLAD I DIDN‘T SAY ORLANDO!

#12ColoursofDecember #wintergames2020 #merryreaders, @Clwojick
+10 +1 points

Rehesina This is such a beautiful colour! 3y
vivastory 😂LIZ 3y
BarbaraBB 😂😂 3y
sarahbarnes Beautiful edition! 😍😍 3y
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GatheringBooks
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Jari-chan
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Panpan

And again I'm visiting town #unpopularopinion

I'm aware that this book is an important add to the LGBT community and that Woolf wrote an important book.

But it just wasn't mine. Precisely, I couldn't read her language. Or the language of the translation. This just wasn't my way of getting into a story. Not at all.

I got through with it, because it's my #DoubleSpin for the #BookSpinBingo

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress! 3y
Jari-chan @TheAromaofBooks Thank you ❤️ 3y
charl08 I can't imagine how anyone would translate this book - the meaning is very slippery/ opaque in the original, I think. 3y
Jari-chan @charl08 Maybe I'll try to read it in the original whrn it comes to happen 😊 3y
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sleepy.ash87
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Pickpick

Vita Sackville-West posing as Orlando. I am captivated by the photographs and illustrations in this book! What a gem for Virginia Woolf to leave us.

This book is a pick for me. It helped motivate me to learn more about Woolf and this time of her life. This story is a reflection on identity, balancing the masculine and the feminine, sexuality, and the politics of expression. It is emotive and insightful; beautiful, important like all her work.

Tanisha_A Great review! I love Virginia Woolf, very excited to read this. 🙂 3y
sleepy.ash87 @Tanisha_A I am excited for you! It was quite experimental. I hope you enjoy! 3y
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sleepy.ash87
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I love this passage because I see so much of myself in Orlando, the woman. I am feminine in that I am sensitive and emotional (though I think many of us would have trouble seeing a "donkey beaten or kitten drowned"), yet I also detest housework, love riding horses, and take pride in my knowledge of plants and ecology, having grown up on a longleaf pine farm and now live on my husband's family's longleaf pine farm. Please, no math, though!

(Cont.)

sleepy.ash87 Our definitions of "male" and "female" expressions have changed to some degree since Virginia. We are all a happy blend of both... Even if this causes strain for some who conform rigidly to cisgender norms 3y
sleepy.ash87 I am not sure why I am sharing this... I should be cleaning the kitchen right now, really. I just think I would have enjoyed Orlando and perhaps the actual Vita, who inspired Orlando's making! 3y
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sleepy.ash87
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"No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high."

❤️❤️"It is not love of truth, but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes parish desire the downfall of parish. Each seeks peace of mind...rather than the triumph of truth and...virtue."

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sleepy.ash87
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Perhaps Woolf comes to us when we most need her. I was so inspired by my recent read of 'To the Lighthouse,' I have checked out this little yellow book from the library. I was aware of my oppression as a woman before, yet Virginia's narratives bring new, emotional light to these ancient issues. I hope I'll find another Lily Briscoe in 'Orlando.' Also, my husband recorded the movie on the DVR for when I finish the book. Very exciting.

sleepy.ash87 @SamAnne -- !!!!!! Thanks for the recommendation 📚 3y
SamAnne @sleepy.ash87 Hope you enjoy it. I‘ve been wanting to rewatch the movie. 3y
sleepy.ash87 @SamAnne It will be my first time! I am curious! 3y
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Paperback.Propensity
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Orlando is pretty good. Not my favorite Woolf novel, but I enjoyed it.

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Liz_M
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I don't reread often, but here are #3books that I have read more than once.

@OriginalCyn620, @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

OriginalCyn620 👍🏻📚👍🏻 4y
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AvidReader25
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Mehso-so

I can't believe this book was published in 1928 almost 100 years ago! It‘s a fascinating classic, particularly in its views on gender & the roles assigned to women and men in our society. It feels very modern though I didn‘t care deeply about Orlando.

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

SamAnne I loved this book when I read it 20 plus years ago and am planning a reread in the next year. So before it‘s time. (edited) 4y
AvidReader25 @SamAnne I completely agree it‘s way before it‘s time. I was left wishing I cared more deeply about Orlando‘s life, but I loved her reflections on gender roles in society. 4y
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charl08
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I was sorely tempted.

Tanisha_A Wow! That copy has my eyes 😍 4y
charl08 @Tanisha_A I was tempted to take it home. 4y
SamAnne Oh, love that one. 4y
readordierachel Gorgeous! 4y
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Addison_Reads
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This is the first Virginia Woolf I've read, and although I gave it a pick, I can't say that I loved it as much as others.

The writing is certainly beautiful, but at times I got a bit bored with the overall momentum of the story.

I will certainly be reading more by this author though because her execution of the written word is something of a masterpiece.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks I've never read anything by Woolf somehow! 4y
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Abailliekaras
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Writing my review for Orlando - sooo many tags! 😂💕

SamAnne I‘m planning a reread his year! 4y
Abailliekaras @SamAnne I just loved it. I never re-read but this would be an exception. 🥰 4y
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bookaddict30
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Panpan

Rating: 3 ⭐⭐⭐
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It's so hard how to review this since so !uch bothered me while reading this book.

The old time language speaking was bothersome to me. I'll read more books by Virginia Woolf but this one just wasn't for me!!

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bookaddict30
Orlando: A Biography | Virginia Woolf
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Starting Book 14 of July and Book 109 of 2020!!

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Abailliekaras
Orlando: A Biography | Virginia Woolf
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Matching book and outfit 😜

SamAnne Love Orlando! 4y
batsy Beautiful copy! 4y
Abailliekaras @batsy it‘s a Folio edition. 💕 @samanne I loved it! 4y
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vivastory
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📚 Orlando AND Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast (Wilde) AND Oscar and Lucinda (Carey)
🖋Ogawa AND Oyeyemi
🎬 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood AND Old Boy
🎸 Angel Olsen. Her album All Mirrors has been on frequent rotation the past couple of months.
🎶On Track (Tame Impala. The Slow Rush is another album I've been playing a lot this year. Their best IMO). Our Love (Sharon Van Etten)
#ManicMonday #LetterO @JoScho

JoScho Thanks for playing 💛 4y
vivastory @JoScho Thanks for posting them. I can't believe we're 3/4 of the way through! 😬 4y
JoScho I thought the same thing today! It is going by so fast. 4y
NikkiM5 “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was everything!!! 4y
vivastory @NikkiM5 Right?! I liked it when I saw it in the theater but the more I thought about it afterwards the more brilliant I realized it was 4y
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Qpri
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Swimming in lyrical prose! 🤓

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Valhalla
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Pickpick

A very different book. But all in all I loved it...don't mind pictures they can be deceiving

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Nute
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I don‘t think that I have ever said this on Litsy before:
I GOT BOOK MAIL!😆 Many thanks to @EclecticReaders for this lovely gift. The #11thHourReadathon was a wonderful way to end my reading pleasure for 2019 and then to be gifted a book of choice on top of that..I‘m ecstatic and grateful!💕

Lcsmcat Loved this one! You have a treat in store. 4y
EclecticReaders Yay! Glad it arrived and hope you enjoy it! 4y
Tanisha_A 😍 4y
UwannaPublishme Yay for you! 🎉👏🏻👏🏻 4y
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merelybookish
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Pickpick

I know I read this as an undergrad but don't remember much beyond watching the Tilda Swinton adaptation in class. I expect I found it all strange. But now, in another age, I marvel at Woolf's wit, invention, and prescience. As Orlando moves through historical periods, transforming from man to woman, Woolf explores the shifting gender constructs in ways that still feel radical while also being fun and whimsical. And, as usual, her prose dazzles.

merelybookish Only one more novel, and I will have read all Woolf's novels. But still a ton of her essays, letters and diaries remain for 2020. 4y
Liz_M I also read this in college and then again this year. I had forgotten how delightful it is! 4y
merelybookish @Liz_M I don't think I realized how delightful it was at 20. But I sure do now! And it's playful in a way her other novels aren't. 4y
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batsy Nicely put! 💜 This was my first Woolf, in my late teens ... loved it but definitely due for a revisit to appreciate all that I missed the first time. 4y
LeahBergen I‘ve been meaning to read this ever since reading more about Vita Sackville West (and that she was the inspiration for Orlando and Woolf gifted her the manuscript). 4y
merelybookish @batsy I think one of my takeaways from reading her novels is that they merit multiple re-readings! 4y
merelybookish @LeahBergen Yes, I'm curious about that as well. I couldn't help but wonder at in-jokes, and if all the compliments heaped upon Orlando aren't really meant for Vita. Plus I think it accounts for the playful tone, which feels different from her other works. 4y
youneverarrived I love this cover. Which novel have you got left to read? Have you got a favourite so far? 4y
merelybookish @youneverarrived I love this cover too! (Not mine, unfortunately.) I have her last one left, Between the Acts. It might have been published posthumously, not sure. As for a favourite...I have a few but I still think To the Lighthouse is her masterpiece. But I'm hoping to do a ranking post once I'm done. 🙂 4y
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jmtrivera
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This is a difficult book to review. It reminds me of being in college. It's full of layers & asides & just a million details, big & small, that made me think. Orlando's early days as a young man are set up as a clear contrast to her later days as a grown woman; at the same time they flow together naturally. It was a slow beginning, but when I found my flow, I found it. I didn't always enjoy it, but it's worth pondering & discussing more.

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merelybookish
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#weeklyforecast brought to you by my 1960s angel that I love. 😀
Finish: 📗 Orlando 📗 She Loves You 🎧Your House Will Pay
Start: 📗The Expendable Man 📗Between the Acts 🎧 A #TOB longlister (or maybe two 🤞)
@Cinfhen

Centique What a gorgeous angel! 4y
Prairiegirl_reading That angel is so adorable!!! 4y
BarbaraBB Such good reading plans! I hope you enjoy Orlando and The Expendable Man. And I hope #ToB will publish it‘s shortlist this week! 4y
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Aimeesue She's lovely! 4y
merelybookish @Centique @Prairiegirl_reading Thank you! I bought her on sale last year after Xmas so enjoying her this year! 👼 4y
merelybookish @BarbaraBB Announcing the short list would definitely simplify my TBR! 😂 4y
LeahBergen I love that angel! ❤️ 4y
batsy She's lovely 💚 4y
merelybookish @batsy @LeahBergen Glad you guys think so too! 4y
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merelybookish
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You know, I don't even mind the movie tie-in cover. But did they have to put the sticker on her face?! 🙄
(What I get for buying cheap books online.)

Liz_M 😕 But at least the contents are excellent -- it is such a fun book of you are okay with magical realism! 4y
LeahBergen Gahhh! 😠 4y
merelybookish @Liz_M Yes, I read it years ago for a class, but it's been so long it's almost like I'm reading it for the first time! 4y
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Lcsmcat A hairdryer blown on the sticker can often loosen the glue enough to remove them without damaging the cover. 4y
readordierachel Ugh! A little lighter fluid and a blade can remove most stickers. 4y
Liz_M @readordierachel Or lighter fluid and a match will really make the sticker (and the book and maybe the table...) disappear. 😂 4y
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Lcsmcat
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merelybookish Still true. 🙄 4y
Graywacke Oye 4y
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EclecticReaders
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In this month‘s episode, Susan, Tara, and Meredith talk all about the Non Fiction genre in celebration of #NonFictionNovember, announce the next #11thHourReadathon, and discuss the gender-bending Classic Orlando. Listen at eclecticreaders.fireside.fm/71 or on podcast apps under Eclectic Readers! #EclecticReaders #Podcast #NFNov

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Merethebookgal
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I had so much fun discussing the Non Fiction genre for #NonFictionNovember and the gender bending novel Orlando in this episode! Listen at eclecticreaders.fireside.fm/71 or podcast apps under Eclectic Readers #EclecticReaders

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BarbaraBB
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“Near London Bridge, a wrecked wherry boat was plainly visible, lying on the bed of the river where it had sunk last autumn. The old bumboat woman, who was carrying her fruit to market on the Surrey side, sat there in her plaids and farthingales with her lap full of apples, for all the world as if she were about to serve a customer, though a certain blueness about the lips hinted the truth."

Cinfhen Lovely images 4y
JennyM Bumboat woman - what a description ❄️ 4y
batsy Love this quote and image! 4y
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BarbaraBB @JennyM @batsy I‘ll never forget Woolf‘s descriptions of the frozen Thames. So vivid ❤️ 4y
Billypar One of my all -time favorites, and I love the frozen Thames part! 4y
KarenUK Love this 😍💕 4y
merelybookish Beautiful! I'm hoping to re-read this before the month ends! 4y
BarbaraBB @Billypar It‘s unforgettable 💙 4y
youneverarrived This scene is so vivid 💙 4y
Severnmeadows A very beautiful picture! 4y
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jmtrivera
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I had to kind of cheat and retroactively track breakfast and lunch, but I did it! Here's to hitting them all for the last week. Baby steps! @wanderinglynn, @bookandcat @Crazyspine @Honeybeegirl
#BFC #BookFitnessChallenge #BFCR4 #GobletofFitness

crazyspine I don't think that's cheating. Good job! 4y
jmtrivera @crazyspine Thanks!!! 4y
bookandcat Way to go!!! I've just fallen so far off lol I'm trying to get back in track 4y
jmtrivera @bookandcat That's how I feel too! It's so tricky to get back into habits! 4y
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Cuilin
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“I‘m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”

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Branwen
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Orlando uses gender and sexuality as a #costume in Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. Orlando switches from male to female during the course of their life. One of my favorites by her. 😍 It was certainly way ahead of its time, considering that it was written in 1928!

#fallisbooked @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Gezemice It is on my list! Sounds great! 4y
OriginalCyn620 Sounds good! 4y
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Liz_M
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Isn't it delightful when your book matches the season and your drinks?

Linsy Yes! I love that you have aaallll the pumpkin drinks! 4y
Liz_M @Linsy 😁 🎃 4y
Cinfhen 🧡 4y
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BarbaraBB That is delightful indeed 😂🎃 4y
LeahBergen Yes!! 🧡🧡🧡 4y
vivastory Coraline Bickford Smith designs are the best 4y
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EclecticReaders
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Hope you‘ll read with us!

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DivineDiana
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Saw a very creative adaptation of this Virginia Woolf novel at the Villanova University theater. She wrote this about her long time love, Vita Sackville-West.

Branwen 😍 4y
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