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A rare work of realism from the mistress of experimental form.

#literature

Don‘t you love that weird time between Christmas and New Year‘s? In Germany, we call this week “between the years” and I think that phrase perfectly captures the typical limbo feeling most of us experience during these days. It‘s usually the time of year I‘m most relaxed: everybody is home and we spend the days watching films, playing board games, going for walks, and reading. Days seem to blend into each other and you kind of lose track of time.

It felt so different to re-read this book as an adult. It was beautiful and sad and familiar and comforting; I savored it to the last line. Woolf can capture the emotions and experiences of life like no other writer. In this book she weaves together moments of the characters‘ everyday lives; we follow them as they grow up, make choices, have regrets, are happy and unhappy, fulfilled and unfulfilled. ❤️

This passage felt very appropriate as I read it today during the crazy snowstorm here. ❄️ #bombcyclone

Happy Friday y‘all. 😁

This late Woolf novel follows members of the Partiger family, jumping from 1880 to 1891 to 1907 and so on, ending around 1937. Along the way, people marry and die, there are big events and small. Always the feeling pervades that we are alone, and connection is elusive. The style and scope is less intimate than Woolf's other novels I've read. Overall, a thoughtful albeit melancholic exploration of time, change and purpose.
#myyearofreadingwoolf

After finishing this novel, I‘ve now read all of Woolf‘s novels. This one follows two branches of the Pargiter family from 1880-1930. We see the characters age through a series of brief vignettes moving through the years. Woolf‘s writing is always atmospheric and intriguing, but I didn‘t find this as appealing as some of her other novels. #1001books #classics #virginiawoolf

See how my book case was when I first started dating my husband I loved it 😋 look at his handsomeness 😋📖📚 and that was before the beard 😝

My current reads - half way through each and loving both! #1001books

After spending a few days in lovely London in the company of the Pardiger family and Woolf, I must admit I feel a bit tired. I really don‘t get Woolf‘s style of writing, and she wasn‘t really impressed by me either. I struggled through this book, which is never a good feeling to have while reading, but I‘m now very happy to put an end to my stay in London and take the overnight ferry to France. Hopefully, I‘ll have more fun there! #BackpackEurope

I couldn‘t find any Pimm‘s but since champagne is the second drink of choice for the Henley Regatta, I think it works for #backpackEurope. I didn‘t have my book with me when we went to dinner, but we did have cause to celebrate, since I got my final grade today and I can officially call myself a psychologist. I‘m beyond happy and relieved, and so proud since I got the highest grade possible!

So not much reading but a lot of celebration today!

1. Denmark 🇩🇰
2. Flying to Heathrow and starting with Virginia Woolf‘s “The Years”.
3. I don‘t really know yet! I have sorta planned my trip, but I plan on finalizing it on Wednesday, as a way to celebrate handing in my thesis TOMORROW (!!!!!). But you can count on me hiking all over the place 🏃‍♀️
4. My backpack is filled with my first two reads, which I‘ll take with me to Crete on Friday 🏝
5. I‘ll be right here on Litsy

#BackpackEurope

My #BookishMountain is a stack of chunksters and classics that I plan to read after handing in my thesis and while being unemployed. I have to get out of bed for something, right 😉

#ReadingResolutions

My Y pick for #litsyclassicsAtoZ. (It's still TBR.) According to the back cover "its principal theme is #time."
#maylovesclassics @sarah83 @Bambolina_81

#female #litsyclassics #maylovesclassics A sweet reunion for me this weekend. Some of my Virginia Woolf books were in storage for YEARS .20th century classics for sure.

I have been slowly savouring the beautiful language of this book over the last month or two for #LitsyClassics. It is one that will sit in my mind for some time to come.

1937 review from the New York Times: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/08/reviews/woolf-years.h...

(I wish the edition pictured was mine, but alas I read it on my Kobo)

1. We started our Easter long weekend with a hike on a friend's property. It was a beautiful day to get outside!

2. The tagged book is my only current read. I'm so used to having two or three on the go, it's weird!

3. #FriYAYintro

@jesshowbooks

"The sky spread like a grey goose's wing from which feathers were falling all over England."

Two of my current reads. Both chockablock with #beautifulwriting. It feels luxurious.

#ReadingResolutions @Jess7

1. Going to the zoo with a friend and her little dude tomorrow, family birthdays with my husband's family on Sunday.
2. 5'3.5" (Yes, that .5 is important!)
3. Almost 4 years. Love my quirky old house and my lovely small town!
4. Monty Python Speaks, and The Years (#LitsyClassics)
5. ☝️?

#FriYAYintro @jesshowbooks

#currentlyreading
The Years is for #LitsyClassics
Monty Python Speaks is a loan from one of my regulars at the brewery
A Study in Charlotte is just for me 😁 I'm loving the homage to Nancy Drew that's happening with the cover.

Wee #bookhaul 🤗 Woolf's The Years for #litsyclassics. Wizard of Earthsea is for the series buddy read organised by @2BR02B but none of the others seem to to be available in local shops and ordering internationally can sometimes take forever 🙄 Will probably resort to ebooks for the rest. Left Hand of Darkness because it seems to be one of the most recommended books if you're new to Le Guin, like I am.

Slight ebook buying binge! Three for #LitsyClassics (Soseki, Dostoyevsky, Woolf); three for #LitsyPassport (Brú, Kivirähk, Gurnah); and two just because (Sinclair and Dimaline)
#bookhaul (excuse the horrible picture)

#litsyclassics #litsyclassicsmatches

@TheKidUpstairs @KVanRead @JacintaMCarter @scripturient @RebelReader @batsy @dariazeoli

I love #bare hardbacks with details like these hiding underneath the dustjacket. Can you guess which books are shown here? 📚

#UncannyOctober

I won this BEAUTIFUL Danish translation of Wolff's "The Years". I didn't love "Orlando", but with an edition this beautiful, I'm willing to give Wolff another try ?

#bookmail

These are more #fivestarhopefuls than #fivestarpredictions for @JazzFeathers and @vivastory. It's so hard to tell but I do have high hopes for these. The top two are The Years and The Waves by Virginia Woolf. And I've totally lost track of who has done this challenge so if you see this and you haven't five it yet, consider yourselves tagged, my friends!

Here are the two covers, @batsy ! I bought the one on the left first, and then forgot about it when I saw the one on the right a couple of days later. (Also, this is what happens when I don't update my LibraryThing account right away.)

I mean, I couldn't just let one go now! They're so different and equally pleasing to look at! #booknerdrationalizations #whyimbroke #pileseverywhere

#Riotgrams Day 11: #FreeLittleLibrary Had a wander up to this phone box, which is now a community book exchange, this morning. Picked up The Years, The Rotters' Club, and a collection of Jhumpa Lahiri's short stories.

Currently reading.

My 2016, according to Goodreads. (I'm 2or3things on GR.) I had set some reading-related goals for myself--write short reviews for everything I read, finally read the Hermione Lee bio of Virginia Woolf--that I didn't quite achieve, but I did manage to read more nonfiction than is typical for me, so that's something. 81 of the 102 books I read were written by women; I need to read more by writers of color. That's my reading resolution for 2017.

Weeding was never really done in my library before I took over. This is one of several books I've found that were first circulated in the 1930's.