Welcome to Litsy!

I really enjoyed doing Dracula Daily this year! So I decided to download #SerialReader and make my way through some more classics!

I do understand! I was casually listening to my audiobook today when this line caught my attention. I had to find the passage in Serial Reader and share. I never would have caught this allusion without the experience of reading #Clarissa.

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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 🚢

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Bon Voyage x

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This book took me a long time to read but only because I set it aside a few times when life was busy. I‘m not generally a fan of Woolf‘s style, but I liked this the best of her books I‘ve read so far. It‘s an intriguing take on life, gender, and time. I found it fascinating how Orlando seemed perfectly able to fit into every period of time, and no one questioned these random people living hundreds of years.

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Loved Sabriel on audio. Tim Curry narrating!

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The Good Soldier is on #serialreader so I know I'll finish it (can't say I'm enjoying, but yay for another #1001books down)
I'm loving Fault Lines so far, so I'm sure I'll finish it, then probably go back to Wild Seed, which I'm also enjoying
For audio, I'll finish Jeeves and start The Phoenix Crown - highly anticipated so 🤞 it lives up to my hopes

Started Evelina this evening!

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I‘m just not a fan of Virginia Woolf‘s style. This is beautifully written with detailed descriptions from the perspective of various characters, but I was again disappointed by the lack of plot. I didn‘t especially care about any of the characters except for the story of Septimus and Rezia, and theirs is just sad.

I read most of this on #SerialReader but also listened to an #audiobook version. It was easier to follow the characters in print.

In all the discussion of books in chapter 6, I found this one the most interesting and amusing. The author‘s own first book is included on the shelves. According to the footnotes in my print copy, he never wrote a second part.

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I can‘t give this a pick, because it was so difficult to keep going at some points and dragged interminably in many places. Yet, I can appreciate what Richardson accomplished with this story and thought it used the epistolary format very well. It was frequently slow and repetitive, but it also made me feel connected to the characters as well as developing strong reactions to their choices and words as well.

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