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Rural Hours
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann | Harriet Baker
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1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman's cottage for sale on (…more)
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Leftcoastzen
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Yes , I treated myself for Christmas! And yes , I still need to downsize book collection!😄🎄
#Bookmail is the best mail !

AllDebooks We're reading this in June. I have an audio and Kindle version, but do I need a physical copy? Yes, yes , I think I do. 🤔 😅 #VirginiaBloomsberries 4mo
Leftcoastzen @AllDebooks it is a nice looking book ! 4mo
AllDebooks @Leftcoastzen don't encourage me 😅 4mo
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LeahBergen I have this, too. It‘s so pretty! 4mo
Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen I wondered !😄 4mo
bibliothecarivs Sounds wonderful! 4mo
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AnneCecilie
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A look into the country life of the British authors, Virginia Wolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosalind Lehmann

Most of the time is spent with Wolf, starting in 1917 as she recovers from illness. This was a quiet time in her life and since the notes from this period is different from the ones she made before and after, they are usually excluded by biographies. So I found this period interesting.

I hadn‘t heard about Warner and Lehmann before

AnneCecilie and they both went their own ways. Warner living with a woman and Lehmann twice divorced. I love reading about women that do what is right for them, even if these sections covered more time in the authors life. I‘m also thinking about reading some of their novels and short stories in the future because they sound interesting. 9mo
AnneCecilie @AllDebooks Tagging you since you expressed interest in my thoughts and I had some 😊 (edited) 9mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sounds interesting 9mo
AllDebooks I can't wait to read this. I've added it to the #VirginiaBloomsnerries tbr list. Thanks fir the tag @AnneCecilie 😊 9mo
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AnneCecilie
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#BookReport

I continued Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and I finally started Unwell Women #SheSaid

I finished Confusion and Rural Hours

Then I went for all the shorter books and read Not a River, Our Wives Under the Sea and Clear

I‘ve started Little Rot

dabbe Excellent choices! 🤩🤩🤩 9mo
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AnneCecilie
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#WeeklyForecast

An overly ambitious stack for my last staycation week. I don‘t think I‘ll get to every book, but there‘s some shorter ones here

I want to continue Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and eventually start Unwell Women #SheSaid

I want to finish Rural Hours and Confusion

Crooked Plow is due back at the library on Tuesday so not sure I‘ll get to it. Then I just want to see which of the following I can get to; Not a River, Parade,

AnneCecilie Our Wives under the Sea, Clear, Little Rot and The Ghost Ship. 9mo
TheSpineView Enjoy your staycation! 9mo
sarahbarnes Have fun! 9mo
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AnneCecilie
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#BookReport

I‘ve started Rural Hours and just started Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR

I finished James, read Blackouts and have started Confusion

AllDebooks Oooh, I'm looking forward to Rural hours. Let me know what you think. It's on the list for #VirginiaBloomsberries next year 😊 9mo
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AnneCecilie
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I‘m sure I‘m not the only Litten who sees this as a perfect solution

Ruthiella Indeed! 😃 9mo
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AnneCecilie
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Something else I didn‘t know, but will keep in mind when #VirginaBloomsberries is reading “Night and Day” in October

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AnneCecilie
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I had no idea. Interesting before reading this novel with #VirginiaBloomsberries in August

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AnneCecilie
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#WeeklyForecast

I want to start Rural Hours and later in the week start Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve just started James and want to finish that, I also want to read Blackouts and get a good start on Confusion

Suet624 What a great stack! 9mo
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