I've been missing Proust in the morning, so decided to return to Woolf. I read the first two volumes of her diary a few years ago, so starting with Volume 3. There was immediate comfort to be back in her prose.
pick10-11 Mar 24 (audiobook)
A masterpiece. Woolf lectures to female undergraduates about female authors and surmises the very practical reasons there was no female Shakespeare. A surprisingly funny and entertaining look at women‘s place in literature and, by extension, society (via a very white English lens.)
Read by the amazing Tilda Swinton. I immediately ordered a hard copy of this (and some of Woolf‘s other texts) to re-read.
Highly recommend.
Happy International Women's Day! 🩷🩷🩷
On this day (and many many others) I tend to think about my favorite female author ever, Virginia Woolf! 🥰 Her work has come to mean so much to me over the years, particularly her book, Mrs. Dalloway!
pickWe follow 6 friends from they‘re going off the school and will into old age. At times I wasn‘t sure about who was talking, but maybe that wasn‘t the point?
There‘s something compelling in Wolf‘s writing that makes me read on
Hey, good news #Midwintersolace friends! 😍
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
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
~Virginia Woolf
Happy Birthday Virginia !
so-soThis novel is a meticulously researched account of the life of Leonard and Virginia Woolf‘s pet marmoset, Mitz. I think I would‘ve enjoyed it more if I cared about the Bloomsbury Group or was fascinated by the Woolfs. Nunez does have a nice way of incorporating animals into her books, but this still lacked the charm and unique storytelling that made me love her later books. This is much more straightforward historical fiction. #roll100
#12Booksof2023 My pick for May is this slim little nonfiction classic. I thought I knew what to expect with this one, so I‘d put off actually picking it up for far too many years, but it was so much more, and surprised me in the best way. Lines from it are still running through my mind, and like most of my top reads this year it‘s one I‘ll definitely reread. @Andrew65
bailedStopped at 24%.
I wanted to like this one but the jumping around from person to person across different times was a very confusing and hard to keep all the characters straight.
I ended up flipping back n forth a lot more than I wanted to and that along with the nonlinear pacing threw me off a lot.
