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I feel quite disappointed that I'm only just getting around to her work this late in life. Thank goodness, I've started now.
Anyway, let's talk about Night and Day?

☕️ Did you enjoy Woolf's intricate examination of romantic entanglements in 1920s London?
☕️ Did you like her characters? Does anyone stand out?
☕️ Do you think Woolf captured the changing societal times of post war England?

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#VirginiaBloomsberries

Our next #buddyread is Night and Day, published in 1919. As one of her earlier works, it is another example of her development as a writer. Set in Edwardian London, the story centres on 2 friends and their romances.
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#TemptingTitles #WithAntonyms I wanted to read Virginia Woolfs novels in order . My public library system didn‘t have it at the time , I was shocked. Pre internet days, called around no local had it .So I drove to Tucson to a bookstore who, at the time , was frighteningly complete with backlists.It was there! This is that copy !

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📚Night and Day Virginia Woolf
🖋Nabokov
📽North by Northwest
📺 New Girl
🎤Harry Nilsson
🎼Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore-Harry Nilsson,New Amsterdam -Elvis Costello

First day back to work, read the emails (no emergency), went for a run and now breakfast with my book... The real start of the year is tomorrow ;) #bookandtea

“She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, #round, whole, and entire from the confusion of chaos.” #QuotsyJul21

Don‘t you think a cold evening calls for a warm fire in the fireplace and a good book?

Have you read Day and Night by Virginia Woolf?

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was pretty good, and often funny. Some stark revelations about human nature along with the workings of love, marriage, and the pursuit of happiness. Like a Shakespearean comedy, all the characters seem to love the wrong person and fall in and out of love on a whim, which was a lot of fun.

A very bleak view on love! Anyone agree with this? 🤨

Rainy days are good for this. 🌱📚

Not feeling well at all today and I‘ve basically been in-and-out of sleep, but while I have this moment of feeling awake enough I‘m going to sneak some pages in.

I said a while back I wanted to read Virginia Woolf‘s novels in chronological order, and only made it through the first. Onto the second a couple years later—her signature style hasn‘t developed yet but hoping for a good read anyhow.

I can see why this isn‘t many peoples favourites Virginia Woolf but I still loved it. It felt much more Edwardian, even more than the voyage out which was published earlier, but I liked getting to spend time in Katherine and Mary‘s heads and the writing about power, money and freedom for women was multifaceted and gorgeous even if a bit bleak.

New Book Thursday. I am so excited to read all of these international authors! Thank you, @RestlessBooks for the opportunity to read and review these books. I‘ll be posting these books individually over the next few weeks as i read and review the books. You have to see the beautiful and interesting covers that these illustrators have given to us readers. It was opening a Christmas present i squealed with glee on how cool these books look.

I bought myself a couple of presents at the bookstore. I guess I‘m just feeling the Woolf & Dickens vibes, these days.

Fifty pages to go...I look forward to finishing it this weekend! Renting an AirB&B to have a few days dedicated to reading and writing. Glorious!

Although she had blunted her taste upon some form of philanthropy for twenty-five years, she had a fine natural instinct for an upstart or a pretender, and knew to a hairbreadth what literature should be and what it should not be. She was born to the knowledge, and scarcely thought it a matter to be proud of.

Woolf‘s works are full of these passionate, intellectual men whose love cannot be removed from judgement. Ralph Denham is like a young Peter Walsh, who is witty and passionate and “enchanting, perfectly enchanting!” But also, with his desire to master and see to the heart of every matter can make one feel “frivolous; empty-headed; a mere silly chatterbox.” No matter how exacting, there is a thrill in being loved by such a person. But can it last?

To revive her spirits she had recourse to an infallible remedy—she looked out of the window.

Like most people who do things methodically, the Rector himself had more strength of purpose and power of self-sacrifice than of intellect or of originality.

Ready to be an out-and-proud book nerd for the Ferguson Public Library summer reading program!! I‘ve never actually logged hours spent reading.

Which is the #worsecover? I think I have to go with the Woolf.

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"Learning what to leave out by putting it all in"- couldn't be a more accurate statement; having fallen in love with Woolf's later, more experimental novels made this one harder to read, however, there is always something reassuring in reading an earlier novel and being able to observe how far and long it takes a novelist to become a master and a voice.

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Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf!

Now that's what I call a #2In1. #VirginiaWoolf #Classic #FirstNovel for me.
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