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Must you read “The Waves”? It’s very good, and a close reading (go ahead, mark that book up!) will bring you in touch with six fascinating individuals — and as always Woolf herself, who sits in the window writing at Eveldon.
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And their relationships, as knotted as any in real life, must be mapped out. Woolf is barely there to help, though she provides clues if you catch them.
What’s it about? Six friends who grow old and a guy named Percival. Simple enough, right? Really it’s about identity, choice, who and what we are (both alone and with others). It’s about, well, life, what we “must” do — if we must at all.
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This was my second attempt at “The Waves” by #VirginiaWoolf. It’s one of those famously “difficult” books, what with six intertwined “stream of consciousness” narratives (plus interleaving prose). But it’s a book that rewards you if you get to know it — for me that meant taking notes (in the book and in a notebook). You have to tease out the identities of these childhood friends and discover their physicality from the inside out.
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Ça pourrait paraitre coutumier, je commence une fois encore petite chronique par une photo prise dans l’Hérault. Samedi dernier, la traversée de la petite réserve naturelle du Lez – à Montpellier – a été fort agréable. C’est par ici que nous avons rejoint le centre-ville à pied. Ces quelques kilomètres en bord du Lez font oublier la proximité de la métropole. Mes photos de ce […]
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Ce dimanche dernier. De retour vers le Gard, le changement d’heure m’offre un magnifique paysage à l’heure où habituellement il faisait nuit noire. Pic Saint-Loup et Hortus se découpent dans un ciel dégagé où un léger croissant de lune se fait discret, celle-ci cherchant peut-être à s’excuser d’avoir légèrement éclipsé le soleil la veille.
Ce lundi matin, pas l’ombre d’un nuage. […]
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Virginia Woolf wrote that Margaret Oliphant had “sold her brain” & “prostituted her culture”…
—on BBC Sounds: Clare Walker Gore discusses Oliphant’s career, laments Woolf’s dismissal of her work, & shows why Oliphant deserves to be read today
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BBCBBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas, Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelfThe Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions
Years as chapter titles in Virginia Woolf’s “The Years” and Toni Morrison’s “Sula”. #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #TheYears #ToniMorrison #Sula #WilliamFaulkner https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/01/years-as-chapter-titles-in-virginia.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.comYears as chapter titles in Virginia Woolf’s “The Years” and Toni Morrison’s “Sula"I recently finished rereading Virginia Woolf's "The Years" (1937), all of whose chapters (except the last, "The Present Day") are titled wit...
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Guy de Maupassant’s “Sur l’eau” (1876) in Virginia Woolf’s “The Years” (1937). #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #TheYears #GuyDeMaupassant #SurL’Eau #Fiction #Novels #Literature https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/01/guy-de-maupassants-sur-leau-1876-in.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.comGuy de Maupassant’s “Sur l’eau” (1876) in Virginia Woolf’s “The Years” (1937)In "Present Day", the final chapter of Virginia Woolf's novel "The Years" (1937), Peggy Pargiter, bored at a party, takes a book off a shelf...
On #PublicDomainDay, 16 notable works of literature became available for everyone to copy, share, and reuse. Which one(s) were you waiting for? #bibliophile #VirginiaWoolf #WilliamFaulkner #ElleryQueen
Happy #PublicDomainDay! On Jan 1, the comic debuts of Popeye and Buck Rogers, as well as Virginia Woolfs A Room of Ones Own and many other works, will finally enter the public domain. Find more DRM-free books at https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks #VirginiaWoolf #Popeye #BuckRogers DRM
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#PublicDomainDay means both a surge in horror movies starring newly public domain characters and that more creative works are now free for all to copy, share, and reuse #Popeye #BuckRogers #Hemingway #VirginiaWoolf #DRM
Just added the LibriVox audiobook of "Orlando" (1928) by Virginia Woolf to PeerTube:
https://fedi.video/w/bwsJYNbu4mMaXzxbzzr32m
It's a very unusual book for its time, with a main character who finds their gender spontaneously changed by magic, living a life spanning centuries. It was apparently written by Woolf as a tribute to her lover Vita Sackville-West at a time when it was difficult to publish openly lesbian fiction, so she used fantastical elements to bypass these barriers.
The audio was originally published at https://librivox.org/orlando-by-virginia-woolf and you can get the ebook at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/virginia-woolf/orlando
The homesickness of Rezia Smith in Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925). #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #MrsDalloway #ReziaSmith #SeptimusSmith #WorldWarOne #London #Shellshock https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-homesickness-of-rezia-smith-in.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.comThe homesickness of Rezia Smith in Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925)Rereading Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925) for a student's MA exam next week, I had to take a break after noticing something I don't ...
"Whatever sentence I extract whole and entire from this cauldron is only a string of six little fish that let themselves be caught while a million others leap and sizzle" —Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“I should like to study mathematics – to know about the stars”: From Katherine HIlbery in Virginia Woolf’s “Night and Day” (1919) to Jakob Bernoulli and Thomas Pynchon. #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #NightAndDay #JakobBernoulli #ArsConjectandi #ThomasPynchon #Mason&Dixon #Mathematics #Literature #Novels #Astronomy https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/i-should-like-to-study-mathematics-to.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.com“I should like to study mathematics – to know about the stars”: From Katherine HIlbery in Virginia Woolf’s “Night and Day” (1919) to Jakob Bernoulli and Thomas PynchonIn Virginia Woolf's "Night and Day" (1919), Katherine Hilbery has a "purely imaginary dialogue" in which she hesitantly reveals "her ambitio...
A marginal note I wrote in my e-book of Virginia Woolf’s “Night and Day” (1919). #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #NightAndDay #Novels #Fiction #Literature #EBooks #Notes #Birthdays https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-marginal-note-i-wrote-in-my-e-book-of.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.comA marginal note I wrote in my e-book of Virginia Woolf’s “Night and Day” (1919)Back in 2019-2020, I read e-books of all of Virginia Woolf's novels in chronological order. I highlighted occasional passages, but generally...
Re-reading four novels by Virginia Woolf for a student’s Master’s exam this fall. #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #Fiction #Novels #Literature #ReadingProjects https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/09/re-reading-four-novels-by-virginia.html
andrewjshields.blogspot.comRe-reading four novels by Virginia Woolf for a student’s Master’s exam this fallIn 2019 and 2020, I went through Virginia Woolf's nine novels from "The Voyage Out" (1915) to "Between the Acts" (1941), as well as her unus...
“Yo terminaría aquí, pero la presión de la convención decreta que todo discurso debe terminar con una peroración. Y una peroración dirigida a mujeres debería contener, estaréis de acuerdo conmigo, algo particularmente exaltante y ennoblecedor. Debería imploraros que recordéis vuestras responsabilidades, la responsabilidad de ser más elevadas, más espirituales; debería recordaros que muchas cosas dependen de vosotras y la influencia que podéis ejercer sobre el porvenir. #virginiawoolf