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#VirginiaBloomsberries

Here, we have our reading list for 2025. It's a good mix of her novels, short stories, esays, and biography. I'll tag them all in the comments for your perusal.

I can't wait to delve deeper into the world of Virginia Woolf. 📚📚📚

All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

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I know that Shute was an Englishman who spent parts of his life in Australia, but I wonder if he spent time in the Pacific Northwest. He writes so fondly of it in the start of this novel, and it is also featured in On the Beach.
#PNW #Australia #Modernism

An intriguing article on the discovery of Vanessa Bell's painting, The Party. On exhibition at Sotheby's, London during November.
#VirginiaBloomsberries

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/05/discovered-a-lost-possible-inspira...

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

Virginia Woolf wrote a freaking masterpiece within the last few hours of her life, but was too talented to realize it. I‘m sad that she died thinking this shiny brilliance was but a trivial effort. This is a must read if you like Woolf.

5 Stars • "The Waste Land" is a 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot, published in 1922. It's a complex, fragmented, and allusive work that reflects the disillusionment and despair of the post-World War I generation. The poem is divided into five sections: "The Burial of the Dead," "A Game of Chess," "The Fire Sermon," "Death by Water," and "What the Thunder Said." ⬇️

#PoetryMatters Day 17: #Unwieldy

I've been meaning to revisit Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set for a while now. Would anyone be interested in joining me for a monthly #buddyread from August?

As well as Woolf's books, I will be including biographies, non-fiction, retellings of her work, etc. There's certainly a lot to explore.

Let me know if you'd like to join me and I'll start a taglist.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/monks-house/who-was-virginia-woolf

June 30th #SummerSouls Waves @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I think you could call Crane a poet‘s poet. His work is steeped in metaphor and analogy, made more difficult to a modern day reader by the gap in eras. There is little here to grasp a casual reader. Yet there is an instantly recognizable power to his poems. Despite the lengths one must go to decipher what Crane is ‘saying‘, one can FEEL it all the same.

An undeniable talent who went with his best work still locked inside him….