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Our #Hyggehour readathon has been so popular that we've decided to continue it. Join with a weekly hours read, knowing somewhere in the 🌏 a Litten is reading alongside you.

Every Sunday 8-9pm (your time zone) - get comfy and cosy, setting yourself up for a relaxing hour. A reset for the week ahead.

@Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

This prose is so poetic, feelings of melancholy and sadness linger, but in the best sense possible.
In 1923 Virginia Woolf begins to right her novel about Clarissa Dalloway. In 1949 Laura Brown reads Virginia Woolf. In the 1990s Clarissa Vaughan is preparing a party for her former lover. Three women in three different timelines share a subtle connection which slowly reveals itself in key moments of their lives.

This book is beautifully written, as Michael Cunningham can do, but I just didn't care much about it. I figured out the connection early and so it mostly dragged for me. Still glad I finally read it though. It has been on my shelf for a long time. It was #96 for #Roll100. @PuddleJumper

Reading a #Roll100 book on the beach. Final day of vacation in Punta Cana. @PuddleJumper

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Very excited to see the opera version of “The Hours” next month on the big screen.

The story is told over the course of a single day, in the tradition of Mrs Dalloway – and, in that spirit, I read The Hours in a single sitting. It‘s short enough to make that not-too-onerous an undertaking, and I reckon it‘s the best way to do it, if you have the time and capacity. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-hours-michael-cunningham/

For my 1998 published book I have chosen this title. I‘ve been a long time fan of Virginia Woolf and I found this book to be very good and an interesting take on Mrs Dalloway. While sad and heartbreaking it was also engaging and all of the characters spoke to me in one form or another. #19822022 @Librarybelle

5-21-21: My 52nd finished book of 2021! I decided to reread this book because it‘s been awhile and it‘s one of my favorites. One day in the life of 3 different women at 3 different times. Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughn. Distinctly different but all eternally linked together. What starts as 3 separate stories becomes entwined. It‘s a beautiful book and movie. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍🏼📖#️⃣5️⃣2️⃣

I was not expecting this book to effect me as much as it did. The writing is exquisite the subject matter heartbreaking. Cunningham‘s understanding of melancholy is astounding! ♥️

I must be too simple-minded for this book because I really didn't get it. The three women...., the depression...., ??? I only finished it because it was for a bookclub.

Starting this next for my movie/book club.

I watched the film a few years ago & it remains a favourite but it‘s influenced how I read the book as I could just see every character as they are in the film. It also sticks very close to the book.

It‘s such a clever idea for a novel & is written perfectly, you really do get inside all 3 of the women‘s minds. The theme of outward vs inner reality is captured brilliantly. It‘s got a sort of rhythm to the writing that captures you. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This book won the 1999 Pulitzer and was made into a very good movie which I remember loving, many years ago.

Cunningham‘s writing is crystal clear and devastating. I loved his writing as much as Wallace Stegner‘s earlier this year. It‘s a very short novel - under 200 pages my copy - and it‘s a dive into one day in the life of three different women - ⬇️

🦔Tagged book: absolutely loved it.
🦔Problematic fave: Papa Hemingway, of course
🦔It‘s not a show, per se, but I love watching my Nebraska Cornhuskers! (We‘ll all stick together, through all kinds of weather, for dear old Nebraska U!)
🦔Nothing like some good ol Hootie & the Blowfish!
🦔Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen. Hauntingly beautiful song.
#ManicMonday #LetterH

#flowers #QuotsyMay20
@TK-421
📷: divokekviti

“Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It‘s a little like reading, isn‘t it - that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.” #TheHours #MichaelCunningham

I got the second book from my #santathing gift! I‘m super excited for both of these books and can‘t wait for a small holiday break to be able to read them🎁📚😊

And a BIG thank you to my Santa @ncayea

#happyholidays #christmas #yule #tistheseason

#AyupAugust

(Day 19 - #HappyHour)

*Well, obviously this book‘s “hours” are not particularly happy ones. But I‘m sure Cunningham had a happy hour when he won the Pulitzer, as did Nicole Kidman when she won the Oscar for best actor. So—there you are.

#perfect #quotsyapr19 @TK-421

I‘m honestly not sure how I feel about this one. The book itself is incredibly well written as the author seamlessly flows from one story line into the next. And while I can empathize with the almost out of body, “who‘s life is this?” feeling, I couldn‘t quite manage a deep connection to any of the characters. Mrs. Dalloway is still on my TBR list. #bookcrossing #movievsbook

2019 page goal: 13,401/30,000 = 44.7%

Stunning. Beautiful. Haunting. This book delves deeply into what it has meant to be a woman in society over the last century. It brings to life the suffocating horror of the at times seemingly trivial and mundane expectations of a wife, mother, woman.

“...as if reading were the singular and obvious first task of the day, the only viable way to negotiate the transit from sleep to obligation.” 💕

I can‘t believe it‘s taken me so long to read this. I watched the movie a couple of years ago and enjoyed it, and the book is so good so far, so I‘m thinking my 99th read this year will be worth it. 🤞🏻

Going strong with #24b4monday readathon. Just finished my second book on the list and it was excellent. Another 5 star rating from me in one day. The connection to its predecessor is like poetry. It is embedded in the work like another character. This author fully captures the themes of mental illness, aging, time and sexuality effortlessly in this novel. I definitely will be revisiting this one in the future.

All of the nonfiction that I've read this month appears to have put me in a little bit of a slump. I'm picking up my favorite book of all time to hopefully turn things around. 🤞

Book two is going with me for a nice relaxing bath for #24b4monday readathon. Hopefully, it‘s another good one. I do love Mrs. Dalloway - so fingers crossed!

I love the movie, but we‘ll see how much I like the book.

It seems suddenly easy to bake a cake, to raise a child...It seems possible (it does not seem impossible) that she‘s slipped across an invisible line, the line that has always separated her from what she would prefer to feel, who she would prefer to be...She has worked so long, so hard, in such good faith, and now she‘s gotten the knack of living happily, as herself, the way a child learns at a particular moment to balance on a two-wheel bicycle

1. Nonfiction by a nose
2. Star Trek
3. Pizza, another close one
4. Haven't read either
5. @abbreviatedAndy

#tuesdaytidbits #thisorthat
@JenlovesJT47

1. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2. Georgette Heyer
3. How To Steal a Million
4. Hummus
#manicmonday #letterh @JoScho

I was feeling overwhelmed and overwrought yesterday evening when I pulled this book off the shelf. I‘m so glad I did. This is a work of brilliance and empathy and, despite all rational evidence, I don‘t believe for a second that it was written by a man. Cunningham walks a darkened corridor, the walls a timeline of horror and pain, but illuminates only the floor in its ordinary reality. This book is tactful & poignant & an honor to Virginia Woolf.

Read the book before watching the film!
It is quite depressing, but it's supposed to be! It's beautifully depressing and people who have been affected by depression or suicide will either understand or feel understood.
I am looking forward to reading what else Cunningham has written. I just discovered that this won the Pulitzer too which I think was well deserved. Gorgeous!

...but she leaves behind her an unmistakable sense of watchful remonstrance, as if an angel had briefly touched the surface of the world with one sandaled foot, asked if there was any trouble and, being told all was well, had resumed her place in the ether with skeptical gravity, having reminded the children of earth that they are just barely trusted to manage their own business, and that further carelessness will not go unremarked.

I broke down and bought this after reading about it on Litsy, and I like the cover. This is actually the first I've heard if it.

#kindledeal

I express myself a lot better without character restrictions Full review: http://bit.ly/2tVtiYJ

Focuses on a day in the life of three different women in three different time periods. All three women are trapped, by their sexuality, by their inner conflict, mental illness, societal expectations, their past.
Linked together by the actual book Mrs Dalloway as well as themes and characters from the original.
5 stars
#jades2018reads #bindrosbookshelf

I saw the film first and then read the book. I sobbed equally for both. 💔💔

What a brilliant book. Moving, engaging and perfectly sized.

Next up... my fifth Book, don‘t think I‘ll hit the whole 24 but I might come close 😊
15/24 hours ✅
4/7 Books ✅
#24in48
#24in48AUSNZ

#pulitzer #1001books. Listening to this one makes me think I need to move Woolf‘s books to the top of the TBR list.

1-11-18: #scenesfromabook Pass the Tissues. This is another book where the movie was also amazing, but you will cry! I love a good cry. 😭🤧📖💖 @JoeStalksBeck

I adore this book!
I could call it an accomplished tribute to "Mrs Dalloway" but that makes it sound dull and sterile when it is anything but. It's clever, yes, but more than that it is beautiful, humane and moving. Also, it's to Michael Cunningham's credit that I lost myself in all three women's inter-connected stories and wasn't impatient to get back to the Virginia Woolf chapters.
5⭐ #reread #192019challenge 1998

"when she glanced over at this new book on her nightstand, stacked atop the one she finished last night, she reached for it automatically, as if reading were the singular and obvious first task of the day..."

Have you ever found yourself wanting to tell a fictional character about the wonderful reading community we have here?

#day23 #septembowie #timewillcrawl I love both of these linked novels that take place over the span of just one day...... @Cinfhen @Marchpane

#meetthelittens: 1. CA; now New Orleans 2. The Hours, Station Eleven 3. The Infected series by Andrea Speed 4. Kill Bill, Lost in Translation 5. Buffy, Sense8 6. Play me anything by Beethoven 7. Blue 8. Pretty much every genre 9. Work in the legal field 10. A dog named Roscoe

This book is a marvel. It takes a lot of courage to tackle the life and work of a writer of Virginia Woolf's statue even glancingly in fiction but Cunningham manages it effortlessly. He manages to evoke all the fragile beauty, depth, melancholy and humour of her style without aping it or losing his own voice. The way connects her story and those of his characters is beautifully managed and all three women are drawn with wonderful clarity and life.