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LitsyEvents
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Repost for @AllDebooks

#VirginiaBloomsberries November #buddyread is her essay, Modern Fiction. I am trying to alternate each month with a shorter read, followed by a longer read.

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

🗓 I'm thinking of our 2025 reading schedule, so please put forward any recommendations for books about VW or the Bloomsbury set to read alongside her works.

AnishaInkspill Roger Fry: A Biography, in my complete works it‘s 272 pages
The essay: The Art of Biography, part of Death and the Moth and Other Essays, in my complete works it‘s 8 pages
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AllDebooks @LitsyEvents thank you for the share 4d
AllDebooks @AnishaInkspill thanks for the recommendations 4d
JenlovesJT47 @AllDebooks can you add me to the list please? Thank you! 2d
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AllDebooks
Night and Day | Virginia Woolf
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#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. 4d
AllDebooks @AnishaInkspill I was completely surprised at how funny it was. Woolf sure does give good satire. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 3d
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! 3d
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. 3d
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AllDebooks
Untitled | Unknown
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#VirginiaBloomsberries November #buddyread is her essay, Modern Fiction. I am trying to alternate each month with a shorter read, followed by a longer read.

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

🗓 I'm thinking of our 2025 reading schedule, so please put forward any recommendations for books about VW or the Bloomsbury set to read alongside her works.

@LitsyEvents

AllDebooks @TheBookHippie Yes, vol 1. Or it is available online as a pdf. 5d
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TheBookHippie @AllDebooks thx!!!! ♥️ 5d
AllDebooks Discussion thread for Night and Day https://litsy.com/p/MDZxbHJ6d2tw 5d
Librarybelle Yay! Thanks! 4d
AnishaInkspill brilliant, I have Modern Fiction or rather Woolf's complete works. 4d
AllDebooks @AnishaInkspill yay, welcome. I'll add you to the taglist. x 4d
AnishaInkspill @AllDebooks thanks 💛 🙂 3d
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AllDebooks
Bright I Burn | Molly Aitken
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I really enjoyed this #AtoZReadathon challenge, just 4 away from a full set! I'll tag my reads in the comments. It's been a great month with some fantastic reads. Thank you for hosting @Texreader

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Vanessa Bell | Frances Spalding
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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.
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AllDebooks
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf, Merve Emre
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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...

LeahBergen That‘s so cool! 1mo
tpixie This article is very interesting. I saved it when I decided to delve into Victoria Woolf- and now her sister! Thanks for sharing! 1mo
AllDebooks @LeahBergen I thought so, too 😊 1mo
AllDebooks @tpixie you are welcome 😊 1mo
AnishaInkspill Thanks!!! 💛 💛 I have Vanessa Bell's latest catalogue on my wishlist https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/vanessa-bell-9781781301333/ 4w
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Look Who's Back | Timur Vermes
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Hi,

I'm making a tentative return, slowly getting better. Thank you for all your lovely well wishes.
I'll catch up with all tags and posts over the week. I've just posted the October #buddyreads for #NaturaLitsy and #VirginiaBloomsberries
I will post the discussion threads for both September 's reads over the weekend.
I'm looking forward to catching up.

AnnCrystal 💕🙏💝. 1mo
dabbe 🧡🤎💛 1mo
Cuilin 🤎💛🧡 1mo
kspenmoll Yay! 😀 🧡💛 1mo
Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
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AllDebooks
Night and Day | Virginia Woolf
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#VirginiaBloomsberries

Our next #buddyread is Night and Day, published in 1919. As one of her earlier works, it is another example of her development as a writer. Set in Edwardian London, the story centres on 2 friends and their romances.
All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

@LitsyEvents

Cuilin I absolutely loved The Mark on the Wall. It‘s like it‘s scratched an itch I didn‘t know I had. (Curious, if other ADHD people feel this way about automatic writing style). 1mo
TheBookHippie Just picked it up!!! 1mo
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TheBookHippie @Cuilin my daughter does!!! 1mo
AllDebooks @Cuilin 💯 agree with that. I did laugh at the end. It's like living in my house. #Ruralliving 1mo
Librarybelle Hooray!! 1mo
Liz_M Please add me to the trash list for this one! 1mo
AllDebooks @Liz_M I will add you to the trash list.😅 Welcome to #VirginiaBloomsberries although maybe we shouldn't refer to fellow readers as trash. 🫣🤣 Thank you, this did make me lol. X 1mo
Liz_M @AllDebooks stupid auto-correct. 😂 1mo
AnishaInkspill I\'m interested, Vanessa bel is one of my favourite artists. I read Night and Day but not recently and will try and join in, and I have Square Haunting, but Modern Fiction ??? one of the essays maybe 4w
AllDebooks @AInkspill Yay, welcome. I'll add you to the taglist. Yes, Modern Fiction is an essay. 😊 4w
AnishaInkspill @AllDebooks thanks!!! 🙂 4w
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AnneCecilie
Two Stories | Mark Haddon, Virginia Woolf
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Originally Two Stories consisted of “Three Jews” by Leonard and “The Mark on the Wall” by Virginia.

Who knew that it was possible to get so many thoughts from looking at a mark on the wall? In the introduction to the story it said that this is when we first see the author Virginia is to become and I can see that.

This edition contains a story by Mark Haddon titled “St Brides Bay” which seems to mirror Virginia‘s writing style.

AllDebooks I have this edition, too. I found it so absorbing and so relaxing to read, just letting my thoughts drfit with hers. 1mo
AnneCecilie @AllDebooks That‘s also a little dangerous. I will read and get lost in what I read and I stop and think “what did I just read?” and then I have to read it again 1mo
AllDebooks @AnneCecilie True 😅 1mo
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