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Not even mad that I had to put my book down to do this. 🩵

June 30th #SummerSouls Waves @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

We 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

#SummerSpecial @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Waves

@Howardsimmons doing his best to read on our lunch break. 😸

Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf! ♥️ Tagging my favorite book of hers.

“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry.“

Remembering Virginia Woolf on her birthday.

#DecemberChill
My dad is cleaning out some old boxes and recently sent me the upper left pic, which shows my favorite place to chill as a kid: on vacation by the beach or pool (often with Agatha Christie novels). As an adult it's been a little different - an Airbnb in upstate New York, a park with a pond in New Jersey, hiking by a Brooklyn marsh, or birding in Cape May. But naturally, nothing beats the reading chair for day to day relaxation.

This is lovely on audiobook 💕

But nature is too vegetable, too vapid. She has only sublimities and vastitudes and water and leaves. I begin to wish for firelight, privacy, and the limbs of one person.

Rhoda said, ‘so I put off my hopeless desire to be Susan, to be Jinny. But I will stretch my toes so that they touch the rail at the end of the bed; I will assure myself, touching the rail, of something hard. Now I cannot sink; cannot altogether fall through the thin sheet now. Now I spread my body on this frail mattress and hang suspended. I am above the earth now. I am no longer upright, to be knocked against and damaged

A challenging literary experience, & one i enjoyed! I feel it's one of those works whose beauty & meaning increases every time you revisit it. Having said that, it's definitely something i'd like to re-read. We observe life – mundaneness, adventures, experiments, trials and tribulations, relationship with people & nature – through the eyes of six characters from childhood to adulthood (their friendship & opinions about each other) narrated as ⤵️

Oh look, racism.

Rhoda at parties is a mood.

"Now I am hungry. I will call my setter."
What an unfortunate juxtaposition. Run, Fido. Run like hell.

Sorry, Virgie, but I just don't buy that any tipped worker has ever thought less of a customer for tipping them "too much."

Floating through clouds full of Woolf's gorgeous prose.

'I love, said Susan, 'and I hate. I desire one thing only. My eyes are hard. Jinny's eyes break into a thousand lights. Rhoda's are like those pale flowers to which moths come in the evening. Yours grow full and brim and never break. But I am already set on my pursuit. I see insects in the grass. Though my mother still knits white socks for me and hems pinafores and I am a child, 👇🏽

I feel like Bernard today would DM me on grindr with a detailed account of what he'd learned about the peculiarity and sensitivity of his own intellect by looking at my profile picture, and a dick pic carefully shot to "accidentally" include his manual typewriter in the frame.

Oh my gawd, Bernard, shut the fuck up.

I love Virginia Woolf, but gawd it's tedious being in the minds of her adult dude characters. What a bunch of self-important bores. Add in the author's off-the-wall classism, and at this rate I might give myself tennis elbow doing the jack-off motion. It's become reflexive.

"I shall eat grass and die in a ditch in the brown water where dead leaves have rotted."
Mood.

Always such a tough question! Here are three that blew me away the first time I read them (at various points in my life) and that I‘ve reread since.

❤️ To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
❤️ The Waves - Virginia Woolf
❤️ Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

Thanks for the tag @merelybookish!
#favs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

How about your list @CarolynM @BookwormM @MySharonaK ?

Just started The waves by Virginia Woolf this morning

#readingwithmycat #virginiawoolf #catsoflitsy

Last night I finished my “Classics” read for March- a Virginia Woolf that I had neglected to read over the years and decided to tackle this year. 7 friends followed from Childhood in the schoolroom through inner dialogues- she manages to give their personalities as she follows them through old age- coming together and drifting back out to their own lives until, at the end, the waves crash to the shore. Not my favorite, but interesting experiment.

Every passage deserves a screnshot but here is a pinch of it. I love Virginia Woolf.

This week's #bookreport. I did pretty well.
☂️I finished The Waves and Heavy.
☂️I read an act of King Lear.
☂️I started In Cold Blood in print and Underland on audio
November is proving to be a pretty good reading month so far. 🙂
@Cinfhen

The main thing I liked about this book was that it was written by Virginia Woolf. She is intriguing and amazing to me on different levels: her writing style, her intuitiveness/emotional sensitivity, and her conception of human nature. These are intertwined in her books to make her unequalled in my view. However, this book bothered me. I am left with many questions like: “Who the heck is Percival?” Read it to see what I mean. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Following 6 individuals with their different personalities throughout their lives, Neville is the introvert. This is definitely my kind of book.

This book is challenging to keep up with and to understand yet intriguing...on the waves...

Because I am on a book hangover and my library books are not due until October 15, I think I will read another Virginia Woolf next. I guess it‘s called a binge. 🥴

A completely unique reading experience. We meet six friends as children and the perspective wanders between each of them, who think in poetic soliloquies about what they see in nature and how they see their own personalities compared to the others. We follow them into adulthood for select scenes and they do the same sort of thing with adult subjects. The title is well-chosen: Woolf is fascinated by the rhythms of daily life and its repetitions 👇

To start Day 2 of our mini vacation in the Catskills, this was the lovely wooded backdrop to my morning reading. Woolf has an abundance of quotable poetry that would perfectly complement the scene, but I had to go with this passage of one of the children listening to a sermon in church. "His rough and hairy voice is like an unshaven chin" cracked me up ?

#QuotsyJuly19 Day 17: #Lake
Family here in the Bay Area have arranged a 3-day camping trip close to the lake tomorrow and an overnight stay at #Lake Tahoe. Super looking forward to it.

#wave #quotsyjuly19 @TK-421

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Summer means reading outside all afternoon.

#bare #quotsyjune19 @TK-421

#QuotsyApr19 Day 24: The #poem as the sound of one‘s voice. The more quotes I find from this book, the more I feel that I am going to love it.

#bookhaul
Made good use of my Barnes & Noble giftcard yesterday with these three that have been on my list for awhile. Afterwards I realized that all three are my third book from each author. For the most part, if I'm picking up a third book of an author, it means I'm already sold.

#cloud #Quotsy #QuotsyFeb19 #LitsyQuoteChallenge

#cloud #Quotsy #QuotsyFeb19 #LitsyQuoteChallenge

I wasn't able to complete the reading challenge from @thereadingwomen (I think I finished 14 of the categories...), but I did end 2018 with a reread of The Waves, so I feel like that counts for something. :)

This is my favorite Virginia Woolf novel, and it seems I'm in the minority. I love the way Woolf tells the story of these 6 lives, through tiny glimpses from each character. And the prose - well, it's simply gorgeous.

Meh

Here‘s the other half of that great puzzle! Solving it has motivated me to read one of my bucket list books: The Waves by Virginia Woolf! #bucketlist

Not my shelves, I‘m checking in on my brother and sister in laws house while they‘re on vacation and I just contributed this book to their adorable collection! This is obviously my favourite room in their House

After finishing The Years yesterday, I‘ve now read all of the novels of #virginiawoolf. Next up for my Woolf project is the massive Hermione Lee biography, essays, and rereads of my favorites. #1001books

Everyone should read Virginia Woolf from time to time. The Waves is just so beautiful. If you like insightful quotes and powerfull phrases, this book is for you. It's about time and friendship and how It shapes one's life. Totally a must read. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐