Welcome to my Autumn of Virginia Woolf! We will spend the ENTIRE MONTH on this slim novel, so feel free to take your time. I don’t have a particular reading schedule in mind — schedules were made to be broken, in my experience. Please add your thoughts or questions in the comments, or just readContinue reading “Let the Reading Begin! Mrs. Dalloway, Day 1”
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My Autumn of Woolf
Many of you know that I am borderline obsessed with Virginia Woolf’s writing. To me, nobody, and I mean nobody, writes like her. Before COVID-19 hit, author Gretchen Rubin had announced that she was going to have a summer of Woolf, which she subsequently postponed until fall. Having just (I think) finished a tight draftContinue reading “My Autumn of Woolf”
La Luministe, a Lush Art Novel by Paula Butterfield
When I heard about this book, I knew I’d buy it. There are books like that. Since I’m an Impressionism geek and feminist, when I heard that Paula Butterfield had written a novel about Berthe Morisot, one of the few women on the forefront of the Impressionist movement, I was thrilled. Before I discuss theContinue reading “La Luministe, a Lush Art Novel by Paula Butterfield”