#bookhaul from today‘s trip to my favorite two bookstores in Johnson City! Two Modern Library eds for the collection, a Mitford Folio, 3 Pratchetts etc. $58. #bookstack #bookstore #modernlibrary #foliofreaks
pickA great biography of a fascinating, complex, and contradictory person although at times I wanted some more emotional involvement in the writing. Reading about Sackville-West's pretty much constant affairs with women were fascinating, particularly her relationships with Virginia Woolf and Violet Trefusis. I also found her unique, independent relationship with her husband--who also had many same-sex extramarital affairs--equally interesting.
Behold the perfect evening.
Vita Sackville-West wrote this to her husband Harold in 1925. Ha! We all know how that turned out. #QueerBooks #BisexualBooks
"[Virginia Woolf] was fascinated by her [Vita Sackville-West]. She described Vita as an aristocrat and a novelist, 'but her real claim to consideration is, if I may be so coarse, her legs: oh they are exquisite--running like slender pillars up into her trunk. Why she writes ... is a puzzle to me. If I were she, I should merely stride, with 11 elk hounds behind me, through my ancestral woods.'" Don't hold back Virginia tell us how you really feel.
pickThis fulfilled all my biography needs - thorough, detailed but not dry. And what a subject! I only knew that Vita was the lover of Virginia Woolf and had created an amazing garden at Sissinghurst - but wow, she had loads of love affairs, and wrote novels and poetry. It was fascinating to try and understand her. A little slow in the last quarter (but true to life as she became more reclusive). 5 stars for me ⬇️
Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West | 
