virginiaWoolf

#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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AllDebooks @Librarybelle @TheBookHippie @IndoorDame @PurpleyPumpkin @TheKidUpstairs @quietlycuriouskate @Deblovestoread @Daisey @Cuilin @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @Graywacke @rubyslippersreads @AnishaInkspill @JenlovesJT47 6d

AllDebooks January

Monday Or Tuesday

AllDebooks February

Jacob's Room

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AllDebooks March

Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World

AllDebooks April

Mrs Dalloway

AllDebooks May

The Common Reader: First and Second Series

AllDebooks June

Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann

AllDebooks July

To the Lighthouse (Collins Classics)

AllDebooks August

Orlando

AllDebooks Sept

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

AllDebooks October

A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

AllDebooks November

A Room Of One's Own And Three Guineas

TheBookHippie Yes! Looks good! 6d

AllDebooks December

The Waves

AllDebooks Well, that was a waste of time! Five of the links don't have any info. I'll go back and edit when I'm home. 😅 6d

Cuilin Love this list. 6d

AllDebooks @TheBookHippie 💙 6d

AllDebooks @Cuilin 💙 6d

AllDebooks Right, let's get back to those books that didn't have any info on Litsy profile. 6d

AllDebooks January https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97864.Monday_or_Tuesday 6d

AllDebooks February https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225396.Jacob_s_Room 6d

AllDebooks May https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25054329-the-common-reader 6d

AllDebooks July https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59716.To_the_Lighthouse 6d

AllDebooks August https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18839.Orlando 6d

Librarybelle Yay!! I‘m still catching up on this year‘s books but am looking forward to the books we are reading next year! 6d

AllDebooks @Librarybelle No rush, get to them (or skip) as and when you can. 💙❄️💙 6d

kspenmoll Looking forward to a few months of joining in-may not be able to read the whole year. 5d

AnishaInkspill Thx !!! 😊 3d

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To The River: A Journey Beneath the Surface | Olivia Laing

A marriage is a private business, even for people who leave behind them such a vast litter of diaries, letters and third-party gossip. What occurs at its centre, what bonds maintain it, are not always visible, or even guessable, to the outsider's greedy eye. The sense that arises from this residue of words is of an abiding love, comprised in equal parts of affection and intellectual stimulation. My inviolable centre, Virginia called Leonard...

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The Common Reader: First and Second Series | Virginia Woolf

#VirginiaBloomsberries

Well, November was a blur! How did you get on with our #buddyread
Modern Fiction was first published in 1919 as Modern Novels. It was later published in her collection of essays The Common Reader - Vol 1.

Did you agree with her push for a more subjective, less materialistic firm of storytelling?

AllDebooks Next up https://litsy.com/p/TzY0OTZpWHJw

Square Haunting: Five Lives in London Between the Wars

TheBookHippie I find her fascinating entirely. I‘m rereading this over the weekend my mind has been MUSH… 😵‍💫😝 3w

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TheBookHippie I have next book! 3w

AllDebooks @TheBookHippie I know what you mean. I feel a complete #braindrain atm 😅 3w

Librarybelle I‘m behind…hope to catch up soon! 2w

kspenmoll I am looking forward to starting Square Haunting this the week- i have owned the book since it came out. 2w

AllDebooks @Librarybelle ❤️ 2w

AllDebooks @kspenmoll ❤️ 2w

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JenlovesJT47

The Common Reader: First and Second Series | Virginia Woolf

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I read the short essay Modern Fiction by Virginia Woolf for the #VirginiaBloomsberries - The only book of hers I‘ve read so far is Mrs. Dalloway, so I‘m looking forward to reading more of her books. This essay talks about modern writers versus the classics and how modern writers should focus on writing what they want versus what is expected of them.

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AnishaInkspill

The Common Reader - First Series (1925) | Virginia Woolf

I know poetry and prose are always talked about separately but to me they always feel like one. Like many #writers this also shows Woolf's work. #PoetryMatters #vision

This is an extract from this month‘s #VirginiaBloomsberries , Woolf talks about the process of writing but I think this applies to many things, where we start of with an idea but the end product is not what we had quite envisioned but somehow we still find a way to carry on.

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AllDebooks

Night and Day | Virginia Woolf

#VirginiaBloomsberries

I feel quite disappointed that I'm only just getting around to her work this late in life. Thank goodness, I've started now.
Anyway, let's talk about Night and Day?

☕️ Did you enjoy Woolf's intricate examination of romantic entanglements in 1920s London?
☕️ Did you like her characters? Does anyone stand out?
☕️ Do you think Woolf captured the changing societal times of post war England?

AnishaInkspill I read this a few years back and enjoyed parts of it but if I read this again, I would enjoy it more as there are many scenes that I can recall better than other books. Knowing little about that historical time, I can imagine the journey both Mary and Katherine are true of that time. 2mo

AllDebooks @AnishaInkspill I was completely surprised at how funny it was. Woolf sure does give good satire. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 2mo

AllDebooks I've never come across such a fickle character as William. His constant dramas were exhausting. As for backup plans, he did remind me of Austen's Mr Collins a lot! 2mo

AnishaInkspill @AllDebooks yeah, Woolf's sense of humour is a surprise, have you read her Flush: a biography? if not I won't say anything more and let you read it whenever you get a chance. 2mo

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Vanessa Bell | Frances Spalding

The artist Vanessa Bell is Virginia Woolf‘s sister. This is a companion catalogue to an exhibition running at MK Gallery (Milton Keynes, UK). The first time I saw Vanessa Bell‘s art I was struck by her style and how her art is painting, crafts and interior decorating. I love how this catalogue shows this. I would have liked more depth in the writing but the images of Bell‘s art make up for it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#2024reads #VirginiaBloomsberries #art

AnishaInkspill Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour by Fay Blanchard didn't appear, and so I've posted this review as a blurb.

And I have Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding and I'm excited about reading it next year. 2mo

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The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf, Merve Emre