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The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out | Virginia Woolf
Using an ocean voyage as the setting, this novel shows people's lack of understanding of each other.
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AnneCecilie
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Virginia Wolf‘s debut novel published in 1915. I‘m not sure how I feel about it, soft pick/ stretch so-so, so far going with the pick since I always was intrigued enough about the story to pick it up and continue reading.

Rachel travels to South America on her father‘s ship accompanied by her aunt and uncle. While on the trip it is decided that she will stay with her aunt once they reach South America.

Unlike her later novels this one has

AnneCecilie chapters and reasonable length to the sentences. #VirginiaBloomsberries @AllDebooks 2mo
Cashappagent725 Hey 👋
Can I cashapp you some $$?
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sarahbarnes This is one of the few books of hers I haven‘t read. 2mo
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AllDebooks
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Our 1st discussion thread for #VirginiaBloomsberries
🚢 Did you enjoy the writing style?
🍾 Did you engage with Rachel Vinrace's character? If not, why not?
🚢 How did opinions on marriage differ, depending on social status?
🍾 Do you think the title of the novel has a deeper meaning?
I hope you enjoyed our first read. I'm certainly excited to explore Woolf's writing even more now. 😊

Next read - Two Stories. All welcome to join

Librarybelle I‘m still reading, so I‘ll pop in when I‘m done! 2mo
Cuilin It‘s been a while since I read this and I‘ve just had a quick skim through. I loved most about this book, except probably the drawn out ending. I won‘t give too much away. I think the title can have many meanings. It‘s a voyage of discovery of oneself, a voyage out of our comfort zones. Also voyage out to the real world not the cocoon of childhood. 2mo
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AllDebooks @Cuilin this books contains so much. Woolf's writing needs to be savoured. I agree on your voyage interpretations. I thought it could also refer to life's voyage. 2mo
AllDebooks It took 9 years for Woolf to finish this novel as she was going through a depressive period and attempted suicide. I can see the reflection of this in her frustration at the role of women and the boredom experienced by the characters that permeates the story. 2mo
PurpleyPumpkin I‘m still reading my way through this book. So, I‘ll circle back when I‘m done. So far, I can say that I‘m enjoying the writing style although it did take me some time to get into it. 🤔 Rachel, so far at least, seems very naive, sheltered, and somewhat apathetic. But I like her curiosity and she does have some talents (piano playing). I‘m interested to see her develop. I‘ll wait to finish the book before answering the last 2 questions. 😉 2mo
AllDebooks @PurpleyPumpkin she had such a sheltered life with her 2 maiden aunts. She's in for an 👀 education with Helen. 😅 2mo
PurpleyPumpkin Ooh intriguing! 2mo
AnneCecilie I just finished the novel late last night. I‘m not sure how I feel about it. Rachel wasn‘t fully formed as a character for me. Apart from her piano skills I‘m not sure I know anything about her. But maybe that‘s how your “public” person was at the time or among this class of British people? I‘m not sure I would say a noticed any difference in the views on marriage. It seemed to be the ultimate goal, but I‘m surprised at how little the couple knew 2mo
AnneCecilie each other before they got engaged. What do they actually know about each other? When it comes to the title I think @Cuilin is on to something. But it was “nice” to be introduced to Mrs Dalloway since she gets her own book later on. I‘m not sure how I feel about the book overall, I think it need to sit we me. (edited) 2mo
AllDebooks @AnneCecilie there is certainly a lot to think about. I got very irritated when the Dalloways were talking about what a nuisance the suffragettes were. I took Rachel's character to be a representation of what a lady was expected to be, sitting pretty, with no opinion of her own. Basically, as an empty vessel to soak and display her husbands brilliance instead of her own. 2mo
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Daisey
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I liked this better than some of Woolf‘s books I‘ve read, but it still got long and I‘m not sure what I‘m supposed to get from that ending. At the same time, there are so many examples of lovely writing. I‘m looking forward to discussion because I‘m hoping it will help me get more from her books that generally just aren‘t my style.

#VirginiaBloomsberries #1001books #audiobook

Tamra So love the cover art! 2mo
Daisey @Tamra Agreed! I do really like this cover image. 2mo
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AnneCecilie
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At first I thought this was a criticism of colonialism, but then they continued to talk about the suffragettes and women‘s vote, so maybe it‘s a metaphor for women‘s situation?

In my intro it said that one could find references to several authors and among them Ibsen. In his play “A Doll‘s House” Nora is called in the original the “little lark bird” by her husband and a lark bird would be kept in a cage

Or maybe I‘m reading to much into this?

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Daisey
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I started listening to this while prepping and grilling supper tonight. I don‘t tend to be a fan of Woolf‘s style, but so far I‘m kind of enjoying listening.

#1001books #VirginiaBloomsberries #ReadAndEat #audiobook

TheBookHippie I‘m enjoying this too. 3mo
AllDebooks Love this 😀 3mo
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#bookreport
Row 1: Buddy reads this month:
~Elephants #sundaybuddyread
~Voyage #VirginiaBloomberies
~ Queen H #literarycrew
Row 2: Books currently reading:
~Seamtress #TBR #bookspin
~Coudspotters #hyggeread
Finished:
~August Hawke #readyourkindle
~Tea, T&T #seasonalcozies #August
-How to Think #adventuresinphilosophy #reganpenaluna
~Valley of the Shadow #SisterFidelmaMysteries

Librarybelle Hooray!! 3mo
TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉🎉 3mo
AllDebooks 💚 3mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3mo
GingerAntics Oh you finished How to Think Like a Woman? Sweet! I guess I don‘t have to feel bad for accidentally listening to next week‘s chapter. 🧡🧡🧡 3mo
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IndoorDame
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I just love the lives of used books! My copy of this just arrived for #VirginiaBloomsberries and the previous owner didn‘t mark up the text in any way, but they seem to have used the end pages to work on a few lines of poetry, and plan a trip to the four corners, and maybe take a phone message, and the inside front cover has a hastily scribbled market list by the same person as they were clearly running to get to something else.

AllDebooks The desecration!! 😱 3mo
IndoorDame @AllDebooks I totally had that thought for a second when I first opened the book, and could never write in one like that myself, but then when I read it I started to find it charming, which strangely often happens to me if I see something in an old worn paperback (if it was on the pages with text or in a really special edition it would be different). 3mo
Cuilin I love this!! 3mo
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IndoorDame @Cuilin Right?! I‘m imagining a whole life for the last owner and the time she (I imagine the previous owner as a woman) spent with Virginia Woolf 3mo
Cuilin @IndoorDame definitely female! I do this too, especially when somebody has their full name inside the book and the date. I say it out into the universe that their book has found a safe home with me. 🤦‍♀️ 3mo
IndoorDame @Cuilin I love that! I totally think those kind of messages find their way home in some form, and the people who write their names in books definitely appreciate knowing they have a safe home 💙 3mo
TheBookgeekFrau How fun!! I love it 😁 3mo
dabbe Now that's a primary source document! A life within a life! I'm really tempted to dial that phone number, too! 🤩🤗😂 3mo
IndoorDame @dabbe hahaha. If that little imp gets the best of you I absolutely want to know who answers!!!! 😁🤗 3mo
AllDebooks @IndoorDame I wonder what she wrote in her other boojs. I bet she could never find her damn shopping list! 😅 3mo
AllDebooks @dabbe I dare you 😈 3mo
IndoorDame @AllDebooks definitely never! I used to write mine in the margins as I took notes in class and they totally got lost in the chaos of my life. I always had to try and recreate them later 😂😂😂 3mo
dabbe @AllDebooks @IndoorDame imp🙈🙊🙉 3mo
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AllDebooks
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#VirginiaBloomsberries

A nice little find on Audible, listening to The Voyage Out while sitting in the garden. Pure bliss 😊

Listen to The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection by Virginia Woolf on Audible. https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B07HHGQLYQ?source_code=ASSOR150021921000R

IndoorDame How cool! 3mo
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PurpleyPumpkin
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“As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.”
#FirstLineFridays

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AllDebooks
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Are you joining my new #buddyread group celebrating and exploring Virginia Woolf's work?

Welcome to the first read for #VirginiaBloomsberries 😊 It seems apt that we start with her first novel. So get your boarding pass ready, and let's sail off with Rachel and fellow passengers. Full steam ahead for South America 🚢

Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

Bon Voyage x

@LitsyEvents

TheKidUpstairs LOVE the tag! 3mo
AllDebooks @TheKidUpstairs 😊lol, me too. Took me a while to settle on one, but once #VirginiaBloomsberries popped up in my head, I knew it could only be that 3mo
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TheBookHippie Oh love! Yes I‘m ready! 3mo
Daisey I‘m ready to join in for this one! 3mo
IndoorDame I‘m ready to join for this one! 3mo
Librarybelle Yay! I‘m ready! 3mo
Cuilin Yes, I read it in ‘22 so I‘m hoping I remember enough to join in the conversation. 3mo
PurpleyPumpkin I‘m in! Going to read this via #SerialReader. 🙌🏽 3mo
kspenmoll I have the book! 3mo
AnneCecilie I‘m waiting on the book from the library. Have you set a date for the discussion? I seem to have missed that 3mo
AllDebooks @AnneCecilie Not yet. It will be towards the end of the month. 3mo
AllDebooks Discussion thread will be posted on the 31st August 😊 3mo
AllDebooks @Cuilin Did you enjoy it? 3mo
AnneCecilie Thanks for letting me know. That‘s sounds great 3mo
Cuilin @AllDebooks There were parts I preferred more than others but yes I did. 3mo
rubyslippersreads Could you please add me to the list? 😊 3mo
AllDebooks @rubyslippersreads Absolutely, welcome. Here's the plan for the rest of the year 😀 https://litsy.com/p/djJia2dVUUpt 3mo
Aimeesue Would you add me to the tag list? I‘d love to read along. Hope I can keep up! 3mo
AllDebooks @Aimeesue of course, glad to have you join us. 😊 3mo
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Repost for @AllDebooks

I've finalised our reading list for the #VirginiaBloomsberries starting with the tagged on the 1st of August. I researched the best way to approach VW's work and made the decision to go the chronological route.
1915 - The Voyage Out
1917 - Two Stories
1919 - Night & Day
1919 - Modern fiction
2020 - Square Haunting: Five women, freedom, and London between the wars by Francesca Wade.

All are welcome to join us.

AllDebooks Thank you for the share x 4mo
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I've finalised our reading list for the #VirginiaBloomsberries starting with the tagged on the 1st of August. I researched the best way to approach VW's work and made the decision to go the chronological route.
1915 - The Voyage Out
1917 - Two Stories
1919 - Night & Day
1919 - Modern fiction
2020 - Square Haunting: Five women, freedom, and London between the wars by Francesca Wade.

All are welcome to join us.

@LitsyEvents

AllDebooks Cont. I thought it best to mix VW's works with the Bloomsbury set. I hope that's ok with everyone. Please do let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist. 4mo
Librarybelle Sounds perfect to me! Thank you for doing this!!! 4mo
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AllDebooks @Librarybelle I'm glad to have you join me. I'm really looking forward to it. I last VW as part of school curriculum, way back 😅 4mo
Librarybelle I read Mrs. Dalloway maybe 20 years and have wanted to explore more of her works and those of the Bloomsbury set. This is perfect! 4mo
AllDebooks Modern fiction is not in Litsy database. It will probably be in essay collections. Is availanle online as a pdf too. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Virginia-Woolf-Modern-Fiction-Susan/dp/0713165618 4mo
AllDebooks @Librarybelle 💚😊💚 4mo
IndoorDame What a great list! I‘ll at least join you guys next month 😄 4mo
Cuilin I‘ve read some of these but haven‘t heard of Modern Fiction. 4mo
AllDebooks @Cuilin it's one of her essays 4mo
Cuilin @AllDebooks wonderful. 4mo
AnneCecilie I might join you for this. 4mo
AllDebooks @AnneCecilie Great! The more the merrier 😊 4mo
PurpleyPumpkin Ooh looking forward to this!🤩 4mo
TheKidUpstairs I don't know how I missed this post! Some tags fly by me 😂 This looks like a great selection, I love the mix of fiction, essays, and the NF pick by Wade. I've just started our August pick, and am delighting in remembering just how much I loved Woolf's writing when I read The Years. Thanks for putting this together, I look forward to reading more with the #VirginiaBloomsberries 3mo
AllDebooks @TheKidUpstairs this made my day ❤️ Thank you. I 3mo
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TheKidUpstairs
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#OnThisDay in 1915 two literary women, one real and one fictional, made their debut when Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, was published by Duckworth & Co. Woolf's first published work features the first mention of high society hostess Clarissa Dalloway. Mrs Dalloway would later make appearances in five of Woolf's short stories. So many parties to throw, so little time. #HistoryGetsLIT

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I dived into that book with no idea of its content.
It is part of my reading all Virginia self challenge

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TK-421
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For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone.
"What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. #Hypnotic #QuotsyJan21

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Emilymdxn
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So glad I started my Virginia Woolf reread! I read this early novel of hers as a teenager but remembered almost nothing about it. More straightforward than a lot of her other novels but still stream of consciousness slipping in and out of peoples heads. Woolf is probably my favourite prose writer of all time and I‘m excited to reread more!

Penny_LiteraryHoarders Juliet Stevenson was probably wonderful to listen to for this one! 5y
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Good morning from London and my audio walk to work friends. I feel like I‘ve been around less than normal recently, I‘ve still been reading and reviewing but I‘ve definitely been scrolling and keeping up with other people less. My work has got so busy recently quite a lot of my scrolling them is used up 😞 I‘ll do my best to keep up with everyone though! Love you guys!

Cathythoughts Good Morning!! Thanks for the lovely message ❤️👍🏻lovely pic ✨ 5y
ju.ca.no Good morning to you too🤗 5y
Weaponxgirl That‘s a nice looking walk 😊 5y
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ljuliel Thanks for checking in. I have times when I just scroll through but don‘t post , too. It looks like you have pretty scenery on your walk. 5y
TrishB We all have those times 😁 have a good day. 5y
erzascarletbookgasm Enjoy your day! 5y
veritysalter Early morning London is the best. Have a lovely day @Emilymdxn 5y
BethM Happens to us all! Lovely pic! 5y
IamIamIam I was just feeling the same way and I've been missing so many excellent posts! October through February are so insanely busy that I scroll through 3 posts and I'm on to the next thing! Have a great day across the pond! 5y
Leftcoastzen We will be here! Lovely photo . 5y
AmyK1 Good morning! Beautiful picture. Have a great day! 5y
Megabooks We all go through those times. Take care 💙 5y
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BarbaraBB
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This stream-of-consciousness novel started out good, with the young Rachel on a boat to South America with her aunt and uncle. She meets many people (among whom Mrs. Dalloway!!) and has interesting conversations. When they arrive on a fictional South American island a new crew of people makes its entrance and with them more conversations and relations. A bit messy, this novel, Woolf‘s first one, but with the promise of what was yet to come. ⬇️

Cathythoughts Nice pic 👍🏻 5y
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts Thanks Cathy 💙 5y
Reviewsbylola I cannot do stream of consciousness. I just can‘t. So I‘ve stayed away from Woolf. 😬 (edited) 5y
Linsy I had a hard time getting into Woolf in college, but then was really satisfied with what I got out of Mrs. Dalloway. Good to know this one is not quite as satisfying. 5y
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Leftcoastzen
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#Auldlangreads #debut Some of my favorite authors first novels .

OriginalCyn620 👍🏻📚😊 5y
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BarbaraBB
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Love this comparison 💕

#serialreader #1001books

Alora 💜 5y
Velvetfur Fab description 😀 5y
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erzascarletbookgasm
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This is the story of a young woman‘s journey of self-discovery on her father‘s ship. It follows Rachel, and her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose on a sea #voyage from London to a resort on the South American. It‘s rather a disturbing book, but I‘ve ‘enjoyed‘ the journey.

#LetsTravelJuly

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 📚💗📚 5y
OriginalCyn620 👌🏻📚❤️ 5y
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merelybookish
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Woolf's first novel begins with The Ambroses boarding a ship owned by a brother-in-law bound for South America. There, Helen Ambrose decides to educate her sheltered, awkward, naive 20-something niece Rachel. The majority of the plot takes place on the island as Rachel and Helen socialize with other English tourists. Outings, excursions, and conversations ensue. Rachel falls in love as do others. But the ending is not exactly 'happy.'👇

merelybookish It feels like a first novel as Woolf is figuring out how to convey inner emotional truth amid convention. The result is a lot of overwrought conversations where what is felt is not said, or what is said is not felt, or where what is felt is said but then is confused. It got tiresome in places. Although I liked how Woolf involved the wider community, and how she undermines the typical love story and marriage as a woman's ultimate happy ending. 6y
RohitSawant Great review! 6y
BarbaraBB Great review. I started this one once but couldn‘t get through 6y
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youneverarrived Brilliant review. Still not read this one. 6y
quietlycuriouskate It must be twenty years since I read this! 😨 6y
erzascarletbookgasm 👏 great review, you sum it up so much better. 👍 6y
merelybookish @BarbaraBB It is definitely the weakest of her works I've read. She working things out and it's interesting from that perspective. 6y
merelybookish @kathedron I plan to re-read Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse and it's been 20 years since I read them. Back when the main characters (middle aged women like me) seemed old. 😬 6y
merelybookish @erzascarletbookgasm I appreciate that! If you haven't read any other Woolf, you should because I don't think this one really captures her brilliance. 6y
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Heavens to Murgatroyd indeed! I've read three books recently that have someone with that last name. An odd little coincidence, it seems
And while on the subject of names, why are characters named St. John such pompous jerks? There's one in the tagged book. (His last name is not Murgatroyd.)
(I had forgotten about Snagglepuss till I happened upon a meme with his catch phrase.)

LeahBergen I can hear him saying it now. 😆 6y
Aimeesue 😂😂😂 6y
Crazeedi Love snagglepuss, ❤️ (edited) 6y
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HardcoverHearts Tangent here but I can still remember being so confused when I saw the spelling and realized that “sinnjinn” was a pronunciation for that surname in Britain. So confusing! 🤷🏻‍♀️ 6y
merelybookish @HardcoverHearts I know! When I first discovered the name in Jane Eyre, I told everyone that's what I would name a son. My mother was appalled and figured I would make the kid's life hell having to explain how his name is pronounced. 6y
readordierachel How bizarre! 6y
merelybookish @readordierachel I know! It's not exactly Smith or Jones. 6y
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merelybookish
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Today, I discovered Clarissa Dalloway is a character in Woolf's first novel The Voyage Out. Is this something most people know?
The more I read Woolf, the more I realize how little I know about her.

Bradleygirl I had no idea! Fascinating 6y
Qpri WHAT?!? I had no idea! 6y
FashionableObserver I didn‘t know that! Wolfe is so fascinating! I took a course on the Bloomsbury Group back in college and found all of the members to be incredibly interesting. But Ms. Wolfe is on a whole ‘nother level. She deserved a course strictly dedicated to her work! 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm I have not read Mrs Dalloway but yes, I was surprised to see her character in The Voyage Out. 6y
batsy I didn't know. Fascinating! 6y
merelybookish @Bradleygirl @qpri @batsy I know! Such a surprise! I'm kind of glad to discover I'm not the only one who didnt know. 😉. Based on what I've read so far, she's not a minor character. And she's already mentioned flowers. 🙂 6y
merelybookish @erzascarletbookgasm Did you like the Voyage Out? 6y
merelybookish @FashionableObserver The whole group is incredibly fascinating! And talented. ((And incestuous. 😆) But Im focusing on Woolf for now. 6y
Qpri @merelybookish So it certainly is our good old Clarissa!! I‘m putting this on my TBR. Hope she‘ll throw a nice party in this book as well 😂 (edited) 6y
merelybookish @Qpri She's quite snobby actually. I think I'll reread Mrs Dalloway after I finish this. 6y
FashionableObserver @merelybookish So very incestuous! 🤣 6y
erzascarletbookgasm I did! It‘s only my second Woolf after To The Lighthouse. I‘m thinking of reading Mrs Dalloway next. 6y
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"[...]Rachel woke to find herself in the midst of one of those interminable nights which do not end at twelve, but go on into the double figures--thirteen, fourteen, and so on until they reach the twenties, and then the thirties, and then the forties. She realised that there is nothing to prevent nights from doing this if they choose."
Ugh, don't I know it.

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Bertha_Mason
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Gawd, I'm glad I don't date men.

Naj Same😂 6y
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Now Terrence is bitching about how bad he thinks marriage is for men. To his fiancé. And calling her ugly. And shaking his fist in her face so that she flinches. I wish HE would die of typhoid fever instead.

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Ugh, Rachel and Terrence have been engaged one fucking week and he's already belittling her and saying things like "I should be writing my novel and you should be answering these notes." What. About. Her. Fucking. Music? She's better off dead, honestly.

Naj Lol I love how you went from "she's better off dead" to "he should die of typhoid fever" in the very next post. 6y
Bertha_Mason @Naj Yeah, first I thought she was just too good for him, and then he showed me EVERY woman is. 6y
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I'm still trying to figure out the symbolic significance of Rachel Vinrace's death.

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Bertha_Mason
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This version isn't as different from the unfinished posthumously published version I read last year (Melymbrosia: A Novel), as I'd thought it would be. All I've really noticed so far is that in this one, Mr. Vinrace is more selfish and emotionally incestuous--more like Woolf's father, in short.

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Bertha_Mason
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I hope someone tosses the Dalloways overboard in their sleep.

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Bertha_Mason
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"[Mr. Dalloway] seemed to come from the humming, oily center of the machine, where the polished rods were sliding and the pistons thumping. He grasped things so firmly but so loosely."
Damn, EVERYONE wants to fuck Mr. Dalloway.

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Bertha_Mason
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"But it was evident that, for some reason or other, Willoughby [Vinrace] was quite pleased to submit, although he made a show of growling."
I guess he and Mr. Dalloway did a lot more than just shake on that business deal, huh? ??

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On the way back from school, I suddenly had such a need to hear an audiobook that I pulled to the shoulder of the highway, put on my hazard lights, and got right onto librivox to download anything by Virginia Woolf. The other drivers understood, hopefully.

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erzascarletbookgasm
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A remarkable novel which I find less daunting to read than To The Lighthouse. Then again it‘s not an easy read, in the sense you need to take your time with it, for the story is plotless and lack of action. A profound story of a naive young woman on a journey of self discovery, touching on women‘s role in society, society‘s discrimination of women, relationship between men and women, marriage, and of what constitutes happiness. 👇
#litsyclassics

erzascarletbookgasm The inner thoughts of her characters were most gorgeously described. There‘s so much beauty in Woolf‘s writing..it‘s powerfully evocative, and one tends to get pensive reading it. Superb ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 6y
pleasedeleteme One of her best, but it took her a long time to rewrite The Voyage Out and it was postponed due to her mental instability. It‘s a gorgeous read though. 6y
TrishB Great review 👍🏻 6y
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saresmoore Lovely review! 6y
batsy Gorgeous review ... I haven't read this one yet. Need to fit in some Woolf in 2019 💜 6y
Leftcoastzen I love it too! Wonderful review. 6y
erzascarletbookgasm @TrishB @saresmoore @Leftcoastzen thank you 😊 @batsy thanks, I‘m thinking of reading another Woolf next year! 6y
erzascarletbookgasm @peterfullagar that‘s so sad, about her mental health. This is her debut novel, some critics said she was still ‘experimenting‘ her style and her writing has not ‘blossomed‘. 🤷‍♀️ I agree it‘s gorgeous. 6y
pleasedeleteme @erzascarletbookgasm absolutely. In my research for my book, she was definitely experimenting with her style. It was around publication of Jacob‘s Room where she felt she was getting to grips with her style. 6y
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“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one‘s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”

(Art by Frank Snapp, 1876-1927).

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KarenUK I LOVE that painting! It‘s beautiful 💕 6y
kspenmoll Absolutely gorgeous painting! 6y
batsy Oh that's lovely! 6y
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batsy Hi J, I sent you an email about the jolabokaflod swap; hope you received it? If you didn't, please let me know :) 6y
erzascarletbookgasm @batsy I haven‘t been checking my inbox for a while. Ha! so you‘re my match for the swap? I haven‘t received anything yet. Coincidentally, I‘ve dropped off something in the post for you today. You can open immediately or wait till Christmas 😊 6y
batsy @erzascarletbookgasm Yes, I checked with Pos Malaysia using my tracking. They said they couldn't deliver because no one was at home, and left a notice for collection. I guess they didn't do that! How frustrating. It's the same issue as last time 🤦🏽‍♀️ 6y
batsy I sent the tracking number to your email. You will unfortunately have to collect it from the same branch as before. Let me know if you can't find the email, I'll give you the tracking number here. I'm sorry about the trouble; I don't know why Pos Malaysia can't leave a notification if they can't deliver?! 6y
batsy Thank you for sending me something, btw... You're too good. 🙏🏽😘 6y
erzascarletbookgasm @batsy Alright, I‘ll collect it at the PO. Thank you. No notice was left at my door 😒. I don‘t know what is going on with our postal service. My parcel from Europe seem to have arrived in our country on 30th Nov but till today, I still haven‘t received it! 😤 6y
batsy That's really unacceptable! The person on the customer service line was like, "All the info for collection would be on the notice." Uff. How would anyone know when there's no notice! ? I'm not sure what's going on with them; I haven't received my Jolabokaflod swap yet, either. 6y
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llwheeler
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I would love to read this with an undergrad class. I feel like some would relate to Rachel and some would dislike her and either way it would spark a good discussion. Particularly of the feminist aspects I would think--v. interesting to me how the characters discuss issues like women's vote or education but most if not all still carry a lot of misogynist viewpoints. Anyway, I'm glad I finally read Woolf's fiction and I'll def be reading more.

llwheeler Read for #readingwomenchallenge bonus prompt - a book by Woolf 6y
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Liz_M
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It is primarily the story of Rachel, a sheltered 24 year old taken in hand by her aunt. Set on her father's cargo so and in an English resort in S. America, it details her journey into adulthood.

As Woolf's first novel, there are hints of the greatness to come. Although the story doesn't arc and the plot plops, there are passages of stunning beauty. I would have enjoyed it more if tax in a less disjointed fashion.
3.5 🌟 #1001books

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Suet624 😂😂😂 6y
LeahBergen Hah! 😆 6y
mabell 😂 6y
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Lylah
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beautiful prose as usual but the plot fell flat for me. It made some astute observations about marriage and the relationships between men and women but it also often dragged and the characters were hard to keep separate in my head. If it‘s autobiographical as the foreword claims, Virginia Woolf‘s life was very boring. Definitely an interesting look at Virginia Woolf‘s style before she had really refined it though! #vwread

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Lylah
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I love this cuddly baby!! 💞💞

wanderinglynn What a cutie! ❤️🐱 7y
rubyslippersreads Lovely Tortie! 😻 7y
ladym30 So adorable! 7y
BlameJennyJane Gorgeous! 7y
RohitSawant 😻😻 7y
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Lylah
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I don‘t really like waiting at the dealership for car service but at least it‘s giving me my first excuse to read in a while 😜

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Lylah
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They didn't have outdoor seating at the library yet (😢) so I'm at a bar reading outside instead. It's gorgeous today! 🌿🌼🌞

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Lylah
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What a first paragraph!

readordierachel Indeed! 7y
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Lylah
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Today I start my voyage (ha) to read all of Virginia Woolf's published works in chronological order, starting with her 1915 novel The Voyage Out. #vwread

Michael_Gee I love this goal!! 7y
Lylah @GhostStories I'm really excited to see her unique style develop over the course of her works!! 7y
Ms_T What a great challenge! Good luck 🤞🏻 7y
AmandaL That's awesome! 7y
batsy That's a cool reading project! 7y
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Kristy_K
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I originally started reading this last year for my #LitsyAtoZ challenge, but didn‘t finish it early enough. So now I‘m using it for my #readingwomenchallenge bonus prompt: a book by Virginia Woolf.

It was a little slow for me but enjoyable.

#classic #MountTBR

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