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.
Celebrated Parisian directorBrook has created a vivid adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ texts, taken from interviews in La Vie Materielle, and Virginia Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own.
The 75-minute production, which is performed in English, provides “an amazing insight into women’s hearts and minds, moving, stimulating and sexy, an evening with five multifaceted performers that goes straight to the heart,” according to the website.
Readers of Virginia Woolf and fans of Downton Abbey have a double treat in store for them when the new season of the PBS Masterpiece series begins. Woolf will make a cameo appearance on the show.
Christina Carty, who starred in Belonging to Laura and The Vessel,will play the part.
Speculation is that middle sister Edith will draw the famous author into the story in her role as budding journalist. While venturing into a “bohemian lifestyle” and experiencing the “thrill of rebellion,” Edith will encounter Woolf at a glamorous house party with her Bloomsbury friends.
Woolf’s appearance will mark just the second time the series has included an actual historical character. The other is the appearance of Dame Nellie Melba, an Australian opera singer, played by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa this season.
Inserting Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group into the storyline helps the show focus on the culture of the 1920s, which is creator Julian Fellowes‘ goal.
As he told the London Telegraph: “The fourth [season] is more about getting into the ’20s: what young people wanted, the changes in music, the arrival of the movies, cars, transport and all of that stuff.”
Season four of Downton premieres Sept. 22 in the UK and Jan. 5, 2014, in the U.S. The storyline picks up four months after end of season three. And producers are promising no more deaths!
