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The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf
There are some books that shouldn’t be rushed like The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf. I’m not even going to say how long I didn’t rush because it stretches beyond months and into the years...
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Reading in Public
I’m reading Les Liaisons Dangereuses on the train this afternoon on my way home from work and a man sits down in the seat next to me. Soon it becomes obvious that he is peeking at my book, trying to...
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three
Oh how I love to read people’s diaries, especially if they were writers. Even better if the diary was written as a private document without intent to publish. I’m not looking for personal secrets and...
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Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf
I’ve been plugging away at Hermione Lee’s Edith Wharton since the end of December of 2009. I read a big chunk then and after that set it aside and picked away at it from time to time. Now I’ve gotten...
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On Being Ill
I am not ill very often and when I am it is generally a mild cold that requires I soldier on, something more dramatic like the flu in which I heave my guts out until there is nothing left and then fall...
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Meeting Virginia Woolf
My sister loves to find a bargain and a few weeks before Christmas she came across an e-book on sale that she knew I would like and gifted it to me. I am not quite halfway through Virginia Woolf: The...
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The Will to Create as a Woman
After having written about the first part of Ruth Gruber’s Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman, I forgot all about writing on the second part of the book. The first part, as you may recall,...
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Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid, Part One
A few months ago friend Cath sent me a copy of Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid. It is a collection of Virginia Woolf essays in the Penguin Great Ideas series. I was expecting all the essays would...
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Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid, Part 2
As I mentioned yesterday, I thought the titular essay in Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid would set the tone of all the following Virginia Woolf essays, this book being part of the Penguin Great Ideas...
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Jacob’s Room
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf is her third novel and the first in which she begins to develop her classic Woolf style. Published in 1922, readers of her two previous and more conventional novels, The...
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Some of This, Some of That
Yesterday was far too nice a day to be indoors in front of a computer. We actually made it to 70F (21C)! It was the warmest day we’ve had since October 11, 2013. There should be a state law that says...
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Woolf’s Darkness
Rebecca Solnit’s essay, “Woolf’s Darkness” that appeared in the New Yorker online was what made me buy her essay collection Men Explain Things to Me. It wasn’t enough to read it in digital and possibly...
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Shiny
The Spring issue of Shiny New Books is up! I was so lucky to have the chance to read and review not one, but two, Oxford Classic reissues of Virginia Woolf books. There is the delightful and...
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