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#VirginiaBloomsberries

I hear you, Virginia.

#WhereAreYouMonday

I‘ve started one of my February #Roll100 books early and find myself in 1930s Alexandria, Egypt among the various residents, religions, and expatriates all coexisting together. Durrell‘s writing is difficult to wade through at times, but I‘m doing better since can anticipate it.

I‘ve been picking away at this since Dec 27. I‘m sort of mostly done, but just wanted to share what I‘m actively listening to.

This is my first Hollinghurst, so I‘m just learning what an elegant prose writer he is. Everything is beautiful. It‘s also really long, patient and slow. The life a gay actor on an Oxford scholarship.

#25alive #positivity
@Eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Rereading
People might think I'm cr**y with all the smiling to myself while reading 😊

This book made me want to cancel my lunch plans yesterday and stay home all day and read. I am so glad the higher praise Wait get on Litsy convinced me to give her another try after not loving another of her books because this story about a young mother and her daughter‘s journey through their involvement with a cult was fantastic.

This book started strong but completely fizzled out 40% in. I bailed at 60%—life‘s too short for boring books, and I‘ve hit my limit on privileged, elite British society.

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (I collect editions of Tess, my favourite novel, and this Christmas gift from my daughter is my 32nd)
📖 Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales: Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial (1898) by T. G. Bonney