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Photos of Monk’s House on Twitter

Posted in Monk's House, Woolf and social media, tagged , on Wednesday 13 January 2016| 2 Comments »

When I visited Monk’s House back in 2004, I was not permitted to take interior photographs. So of course I bought the National Trust book.

Today I came across a few photos of the house that were shared on Twitter by @CasaLettori, with text in Italian. The photos remind me of the home’s loveliness. I’m sharing them here, with the thought that camera phones have changed everything.

 

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Join the year-long #Woolfalong

Posted in books, Virginia Woolf, Woolf and social media, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , on Thursday 31 December 2015| 3 Comments »

Join blogger Heavenali for a #Woolfalong in the new year. 

Starting tomorrow and running throughout 2016, readers will choose six books — or more, if desired — by or about Virginia Woolf for their reading pleasure.

Here are the guidelines for every month of the year, with readers choosing their favorites for each:

January and February – Read a famous Woolf novel, such as To the Lighthouse (1927) or Mrs. Dalloway (1925).

March and April: Read Woolf’s beginning and ending novels, The Voyage Out (1915) or Night and Day (1919) or Between the Acts (1941).

May and June: Read any of her shorter fiction, such as a collection of short stories. Possibilities include:

  • Kew Gardens (1919)
    Monday or Tuesday (1921)
    A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)
    Mrs. Dalloway’s Party (1973)
    The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf (1985)

July and August: Read a biography, either one written by Woolf — Flush (1933), Orlando (1928), or Roger Fry: A Biography (1941) or a biography of Virginia Woolf.

September and October: Read some of Woolf’s nonfiction. Heavenali mentions either Woolf’s essays or diaries, but I would add her letters to the list.

November and December: Read another novel, such as The Years (1937) Jacob’s Room (1922) or The Waves (1931).

When sharing your reading experience on social media, use the hashtag #Woolfalong.

Blogger Heavenali pledges to post six #Woolfalong discussion-style entries, one every two months, where links to other posts can be shared. Meanwhile, a Woolf discussion has already begun.

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Woolf and Bloomsbury Group sightings

Posted in Bloomsbury, Woolf and social media, Woolf sightings, tagged , on Friday 3 April 2015| Leave a Comment »

Woolf sightings appear online daily, and Blogging Woolf posts the briefest of them on Facebook. But today we have gathered a few to share with readers here as well. Here they are:

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Virginia Woolf underfoot

Posted in 21st century Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Woolf and social media, tagged , on Wednesday 1 April 2015| Leave a Comment »

Virginia Woolf image and quote on the pavement in the Castro district of San Francisco, reposted from @annybrackx.

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A Woolf twist to an Internet meme

Posted in Woolf and social media, tagged , , on Friday 20 September 2013| 16 Comments »

It’s International Book Week. Or so the Internet meme goes. According to this meme, readers are asked to grab the closest book to them, turn to page 52 and post the fifth sentence as their status.

Trouble is that there is no such thing as International Book Week.

Let’s play along anyway, but with a Woolfian twist.

The rules: Grab the closest book by Virginia Woolf. Turn to page 52 and post the 5th sentence as your status. Don’t mention the title.

Add your sentence in the Comments section below this post. And see if you can guess which work of Woolf the quotes are from.

I’ll start:

The point broke.

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