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Waves
Waves | Virginia Woolf
One of Woolf s most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts."
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monalyisha
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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Not even mad that I had to put my book down to do this. 🩵

AnnCrystal 😍💕🐶🐾💝. (edited) 2mo
Leftcoastzen Looks wonderful! 2mo
Tamra Awesome! 2mo
dabbe 🤩🖤🐾🖤🤩 2mo
Sparklemn Nice! 2mo
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Waves | Virginia Woolf
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Eggs 🌊🩵🌊 5mo
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AnneCecilie
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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We follow 6 friends from they‘re going off the school and will into old age. At times I wasn‘t sure about who was talking, but maybe that wasn‘t the point?

There‘s something compelling in Wolf‘s writing that makes me read on

charl08 Gorgeous edition! 9mo
sarahbarnes This is my favorite of her books! 9mo
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TheSpineView
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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Eggs Nice choice 💚🌊💙 1y
TheSpineView @Eggs 👍😊📘 1y
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Michael_Gee
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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@Howardsimmons doing his best to read on our lunch break. 😸

batsy 🐱🐈 1y
Bookzombie 😄 💕🐈 1y
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sarahbarnes
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf! ♥️ Tagging my favorite book of hers.

Ruthiella I‘ve only read two novels, probably her most famous ones: To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. I was thinking I‘d read Orlando next. I‘ve heard The Waves is a little difficult… 2y
sarahbarnes @Ruthiella I love Orlando - it‘s really fun! I hope you enjoy it. Re The Waves, it‘s more dense, with less plot (😂) but I think because of the time in my life I first read it I love it and have reread it since then. 2y
batsy I just saw someone on twitter say the same re: The Waves! I need to read it. I think Lighthouse and Orlando are my two faves atm, though rereading Mrs Dalloway recently made me appreciate it so much more. 2y
sarahbarnes @batsy I think you would like The Waves! I love all of the ones you mentioned, too - all on my favorites list. ♥️ 2y
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Bibliobear
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“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry.“

Remembering Virginia Woolf on her birthday.

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Billypar
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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#DecemberChill
My dad is cleaning out some old boxes and recently sent me the upper left pic, which shows my favorite place to chill as a kid: on vacation by the beach or pool (often with Agatha Christie novels). As an adult it's been a little different - an Airbnb in upstate New York, a park with a pond in New Jersey, hiking by a Brooklyn marsh, or birding in Cape May. But naturally, nothing beats the reading chair for day to day relaxation.

LeahBergen What a lovely collage! ❤️ 3y
Cinfhen Fabulous collage😍and beautiful photography❣️❣️ 3y
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BarbaraBB That‘s a fantastic collage with a bit of your life in it, and books ever present. Thanks for making and sharing these lovely pictures 🥰 3y
Reggie These are all wonderful! 3y
Cathythoughts Great pictures ❤️ 3y
tpixie Great memories 📚💝 3y
Billypar Thanks @LeahBergen @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB @Reggie @Cathythoughts @tpixie - these are always fun opportunities to go through old photos. 3y
Centique These are great pictures Vinny! So cool that you read Agatha Christie novels by the pool 😍 3y
Billypar @Centique Thanks Paula! I think 80% of my reading diet in middle school was Agatha Christie or Michael Crichton. The internet and YA publishing were not what they are today 😅 3y
Suet624 Thank you for sharing these photos. 3y
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Cazxxx
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Cazxxx
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This is lovely on audiobook 💕

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aditiee
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

But nature is too vegetable, too vapid. She has only sublimities and vastitudes and water and leaves. I begin to wish for firelight, privacy, and the limbs of one person.

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aditiee
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

Rhoda said, ‘so I put off my hopeless desire to be Susan, to be Jinny. But I will stretch my toes so that they touch the rail at the end of the bed; I will assure myself, touching the rail, of something hard. Now I cannot sink; cannot altogether fall through the thin sheet now. Now I spread my body on this frail mattress and hang suspended. I am above the earth now. I am no longer upright, to be knocked against and damaged

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Tanisha_A
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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A challenging literary experience, & one i enjoyed! I feel it's one of those works whose beauty & meaning increases every time you revisit it. Having said that, it's definitely something i'd like to re-read. We observe life – mundaneness, adventures, experiments, trials and tribulations, relationship with people & nature – through the eyes of six characters from childhood to adulthood (their friendship & opinions about each other) narrated as ⤵️

Tanisha_A soliloquies. I am still tripping on some of the gorgeous descriptions. 🙂
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kspenmoll Love your review. I have not read this. 4y
batsy Lovely review! One that I want to tackle but slightly intimidated 😅 (those editions are so beautiful!) 4y
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Freespirit Yes agree what a great review..makes me want to read it😊 4y
Crazeedi Well written!💖 4y
Tanisha_A @batsy Oh gosh! It was definitely intimidating and demanding patience, but so unique and rewarding. You'll feel yourself flowing in a lot of the prose, just observing life as is. 4y
batsy @Tanisha_A That's how I felt reading To The Lighthouse. I didn't get it the first time, the second time I read it straight through and let it wash over me, as it were... 🥰 4y
Tanisha_A @Crazeedi Thanks. 😊 @kspenmoll @Freespirit I'd love to know your thoughts whenever you get to it. I totally love Woolf, this was my 4th and my favourite so far has been Mrs. Dalloway. 💗 4y
Tanisha_A @batsy Ahh! Wow! I haven't read that one yet (think i am crossing the waves to get to the lighthouse, haha), but definitely looking forward to it (and that title is one the most beautiful in the history of literature, i feel 🙃). Not going to pick it up for a while though, Woolf readings need their own space, wide as a chunk of sky 4y
sudi Absolutely amazing review 👏👏👏, stacked! 4y
quietlycuriouskate And now I'm thinking a re-read is long overdue. ❤ 4y
Tanisha_A @sudi Thanks Sud. I hope it adds to your reading. 😊 @kathedron Wow! Re-reading this one should be amazing, i guess. I am hoping to do the same few years from now. 🙂 4y
SamAnne A couple of us on Good Reads are planning some Woolf reads/rereads. Am thinking about hosting it on Litsy as well in case anyone is interested. Would start with Mrs. Dalloway in October. 4y
Palimpsest @Tanisha_A Nice review. This is one that‘s been on my shelf for a bit. I‘ve read Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. This one seems a little more intimidating. 4y
CarolynM Great review🙂 4y
Freespirit Hi @SamAnne I would be interested in reading Mrs Dalloway! Tag me when you decide to read it and I‘ll join the group😊 4y
Tanisha_A @SamAnne Oh that sounds great. Think i may join you for a re-read of Mrs Dalloway. I'll look out for your post. 4y
Tanisha_A @Palimpsest Thanks! 😊 Yes, this one is a bit daunting primarily 'cause of the very different style, but if you have liked other works of Woolf, you'll find a lot to like in here as well. 4y
Tanisha_A @CarolynM Thanks Carol! I am going to come to you and @JennyM for some oz fiction recommendations. 😊 4y
Tanisha_A And to you both too, @Freespirit and @Rissreads for oz fiction recomm. 🙂 4y
JennyM @Tanisha_A always! And I‘m interested in reading Mrs Dalloway too if that‘s ok @SamAnne 😊 4y
Freespirit Let me know when you need some Oz recommendations @Tanisha_A 😍 4y
Rissreads Fantastic review! Well seeing as I just recieved Mrs Dalloway as a gift from @Tanisha_A 🧡 I would love to join in the buddy read in October @SamAnne 4y
Rissreads Let me know when you want those #Ozfiction recommendations! 4y
SamAnne @FreeSpirit @Tanisha_A @JennyM okay I've put you on my list! Thinking about a book every 2 months (I know we all have other books on our TBR lists) and maybe a watch party of The Hours!. I just reread A Room of One's Own. Want to reread To the Lighthouse and Orlando. And ooh, there's a movie Orlando that stars Tilda Swinton. 4y
Tanisha_A @SamAnne Thankee! 🙂 I loved The Hours back when i watched it. A watch party sounds fun! A Room of One's Own is an important piece of feminist work, so good. I haven't read the two you mentioned, as well. Looking forward! 4y
Tanisha_A @SamAnne Please add @Rissreads too. 😊 4y
RohitSawant I'd stacked this a while ago but bumping it up after your terrific review! 🙌🏼 4y
vivastory Stellar review! I was planning on reading this one in a few months but your review made me move it to my August TBR 📚📚📚 4y
Tanisha_A @vivastory @rohit-sawant I'd love to know what you end up thinking of it. Enjoy! 😊 4y
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Bertha_Mason
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

Oh look, racism.

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Bertha_Mason
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

Rhoda at parties is a mood.

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Bertha_Mason
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

"Now I am hungry. I will call my setter."
What an unfortunate juxtaposition. Run, Fido. Run like hell.

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Bertha_Mason
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

Sorry, Virgie, but I just don't buy that any tipped worker has ever thought less of a customer for tipping them "too much."

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Tanisha_A
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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Floating through clouds full of Woolf's gorgeous prose.

'I love, said Susan, 'and I hate. I desire one thing only. My eyes are hard. Jinny's eyes break into a thousand lights. Rhoda's are like those pale flowers to which moths come in the evening. Yours grow full and brim and never break. But I am already set on my pursuit. I see insects in the grass. Though my mother still knits white socks for me and hems pinafores and I am a child, 👇🏽

Tanisha_A I love and I hate.' 4y
TrishB I didn‘t understand quite a bit of this book, but some of the writing was beautiful. 4y
Tanisha_A @TrishB Oh it's a challenging read for sure, so i know what you mean. Sometimes i don't even bother to link the characters or the story in her novels, but just get lost in their soliloquies. 😃 4y
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Bertha_Mason
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

I feel like Bernard today would DM me on grindr with a detailed account of what he'd learned about the peculiarity and sensitivity of his own intellect by looking at my profile picture, and a dick pic carefully shot to "accidentally" include his manual typewriter in the frame.

Bertha_Mason He would 100% call me something like "Brent" or "Tyler" during sex. 4y
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Bertha_Mason
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

Oh my gawd, Bernard, shut the fuck up.

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Bertha_Mason
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

I love Virginia Woolf, but gawd it's tedious being in the minds of her adult dude characters. What a bunch of self-important bores. Add in the author's off-the-wall classism, and at this rate I might give myself tennis elbow doing the jack-off motion. It's become reflexive.

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Bertha_Mason
The Waves | Virginia Woolf

"I shall eat grass and die in a ditch in the brown water where dead leaves have rotted."
Mood.

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sarahbarnes
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Always such a tough question! Here are three that blew me away the first time I read them (at various points in my life) and that I‘ve reread since.

❤️ To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
❤️ The Waves - Virginia Woolf
❤️ Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

Thanks for the tag @merelybookish!
#favs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

How about your list @CarolynM @BookwormM @MySharonaK ?

MySharonaK Thank you for the tag! I‘ll try to do it later today 😘 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks for playing!!! 4y
merelybookish I'm so impressed that you've re-read Infinite Jest!! 4y
sarahbarnes @merelybookish I definitely skimmed the endnotes the second time.😂 4y
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noemiean
Les Vagues | Virginia Woolf
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Just started The waves by Virginia Woolf this morning

#readingwithmycat #virginiawoolf #catsoflitsy

Billypar Welcome to Litsy! I read this last year and loved it- there's not even anything else I've read to compare it to. 5y
Jess_Read_This 🌷Welcome to Litsy! Glad to meet you! What a lovely cover on this edition. Very beautiful. 5y
EllisBell Welcome to Litsy...oooh l love a bit of Woolf! 5y
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Booksnchill
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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Last night I finished my “Classics” read for March- a Virginia Woolf that I had neglected to read over the years and decided to tackle this year. 7 friends followed from Childhood in the schoolroom through inner dialogues- she manages to give their personalities as she follows them through old age- coming together and drifting back out to their own lives until, at the end, the waves crash to the shore. Not my favorite, but interesting experiment.

Itchyfeetreader Beautiful cover 5y
Booksnchill @Itchyfeetreader i will confess that was one reason I picked it up! 5y
JackOBotts What Woolf would you most recommend? I haven‘t read any of her work. 5y
Booksnchill @JackOBotts A room of one‘s own is my favorite- I can recomment Orlando and The Hours and the ever classic Mrs. Dalloway. She also is a wonderful reviewer, diarist and essayist and those might be a foot in the door to see if her style interests you. Happy Reading! 5y
JackOBotts Thank you! These are great! 5y
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Michaelbmontes
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I go to writing and friends

Leftcoastzen ❤️ 5y
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Wow

Leftcoastzen She‘s so good. 5y
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Michaelbmontes
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Every passage deserves a screnshot but here is a pinch of it. I love Virginia Woolf.

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merelybookish
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This week's #bookreport. I did pretty well.
☂️I finished The Waves and Heavy.
☂️I read an act of King Lear.
☂️I started In Cold Blood in print and Underland on audio
November is proving to be a pretty good reading month so far. 🙂
@Cinfhen

TheBookHippie Read King Lear read the news updates 🤯...😳🤣 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads What did you think about The Waves? 5y
Cinfhen I‘m thinking of trying Heavy on audio! 5y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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The main thing I liked about this book was that it was written by Virginia Woolf. She is intriguing and amazing to me on different levels: her writing style, her intuitiveness/emotional sensitivity, and her conception of human nature. These are intertwined in her books to make her unequalled in my view. However, this book bothered me. I am left with many questions like: “Who the heck is Percival?” Read it to see what I mean. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

merelybookish Reading right now! 5y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads Will be interested in your thoughts @merelybookish 5y
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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Following 6 individuals with their different personalities throughout their lives, Neville is the introvert. This is definitely my kind of book.

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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This book is challenging to keep up with and to understand yet intriguing...on the waves...

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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Because I am on a book hangover and my library books are not due until October 15, I think I will read another Virginia Woolf next. I guess it‘s called a binge. 🥴

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Billypar
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A completely unique reading experience. We meet six friends as children and the perspective wanders between each of them, who think in poetic soliloquies about what they see in nature and how they see their own personalities compared to the others. We follow them into adulthood for select scenes and they do the same sort of thing with adult subjects. The title is well-chosen: Woolf is fascinated by the rhythms of daily life and its repetitions 👇

Billypar It's got some interesting observations about how different individuals respond to social expectations. The more extraverted characters wonder why they only feel like themselves around others, and the more withdrawn are alienated by social experiences- they immerse themselves in their work or imagination. I won't pretend I understood everything- I had to give up on some passages that weren't clicking- but i loved everything I could decipher. 5y
JenniferP I also loved this book. I‘ve read all of Woolf‘s novels and I think it is the one I connected with most. Agree that I didn‘t understand every passage but the overall book still really worked for me. 5y
Billypar @JenniferP This was my third- Orlando is one of my favorite novels, so that will be tough to top, but this was a close second. I hope to read them all eventually- will probably go with Mrs. Dalloway next. 5y
JenniferP I‘d say To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway are my other favorites. Enjoy! 5y
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Billypar
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To start Day 2 of our mini vacation in the Catskills, this was the lovely wooded backdrop to my morning reading. Woolf has an abundance of quotable poetry that would perfectly complement the scene, but I had to go with this passage of one of the children listening to a sermon in church. "His rough and hairy voice is like an unshaven chin" cracked me up ?

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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyJuly19 Day 17: #Lake
Family here in the Bay Area have arranged a 3-day camping trip close to the lake tomorrow and an overnight stay at #Lake Tahoe. Super looking forward to it.

BookmarkTavern Beautiful! ❤️ 5y
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Eggs
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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#wave #quotsyjuly19 @TK-421

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Cathythoughts Love this ♥️ 5y
Eggs Thanks @Cathythoughts 😘 5y
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gingerandjazz
The Waves | Virginia Woolf
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Summer means reading outside all afternoon.

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads I also loved it this quote 5y
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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyApr19 Day 24: The #poem as the sound of one‘s voice. The more quotes I find from this book, the more I feel that I am going to love it.

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Billypar
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#bookhaul
Made good use of my Barnes & Noble giftcard yesterday with these three that have been on my list for awhile. Afterwards I realized that all three are my third book from each author. For the most part, if I'm picking up a third book of an author, it means I'm already sold.

Christine Great selections!! 6y
Suet624 Oh gosh. Love Medicine was the first of Erdrich‘s books that I read. Blew my socks off. 6y
Billypar @Suet624 Very good to hear! That's the reaction I had to the other two I read- The Round House and Plague of Doves 6y
Suet624 Erdrich 💕💕💕 she‘s a treasure. Enjoy. 6y
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EliNeedsMoreShelves
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I wasn't able to complete the reading challenge from @thereadingwomen (I think I finished 14 of the categories...), but I did end 2018 with a reread of The Waves, so I feel like that counts for something. :)

This is my favorite Virginia Woolf novel, and it seems I'm in the minority. I love the way Woolf tells the story of these 6 lives, through tiny glimpses from each character. And the prose - well, it's simply gorgeous.

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shawnmooney
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Meh

Lylah Sorry to hear that! 6y
LeahBergen 😮😮😮 6y
TrishB I found this really hard! 6y
Nute Probably just what you said...changing taste over time. It is why I am always reluctant to reread. 6y
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catiewithac
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Here‘s the other half of that great puzzle! Solving it has motivated me to read one of my bucket list books: The Waves by Virginia Woolf! #bucketlist

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Augustdana
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Not my shelves, I‘m checking in on my brother and sister in laws house while they‘re on vacation and I just contributed this book to their adorable collection! This is obviously my favourite room in their House

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JenniferP
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After finishing The Years yesterday, I‘ve now read all of the novels of #virginiawoolf. Next up for my Woolf project is the massive Hermione Lee biography, essays, and rereads of my favorites. #1001books

Eggs Welcome 🌸👋🏻 6y
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iporto
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Everyone should read Virginia Woolf from time to time. The Waves is just so beautiful. If you like insightful quotes and powerfull phrases, this book is for you. It's about time and friendship and how It shapes one's life. Totally a must read. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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