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2010 - 50 BOOK CHALLENGE ... Morgan
Sun, Sand, Sex by Linda Lael Miller
Hippie Hollow - Murder on a Nude Beach by Denniger Bolton
The Waves by Virginia Woolf ... a British writer, but I've not yet read Ulysses, so I don't really feel qualified to argue that point.
I would change The Waves to Orlando. In defense of this opinion, I cite Borges: "{Orlando is} Virginia Woolf's most intense and one of the most singular {novels} of our era." some great lists!!!!!!!
Top 10 funnies:
Brother Karamazov
Anything by Kafka
Doktor Faustus
Hunger
The Waves
The Death of Ivan Illych
The Stranger
Anatomy of Melancholy
The Book of Disquiet
Das Kapital
All side splittingly funny.
I must say I enjoyed Mrs Dalloway and have heard wonderful things about To the Lighthouse and Orlando. I also have The Waves and A Room of One's Own to read, but didn't rate Between the Acts, which I hadn't heard of previously but had to read at university... Just my 2 pennies' worth! ... ... Lighthouse is her fiction masterpiece. In addition to the ones you mentioned I've also read Orlando. I need to reread The Waves because it has been so long since I read it I really can't remember much about it. I think it is interesting that it's the only one I've read that I don't ... ... To the Lighthouse, which is my favourite of her major novels so far (of them, I've previously read Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and Jacob's Room). ... it aside when I went on holiday). It seems like a good summer read. This time last year I read another Virginia Woolf book, The Waves, which was very summery. Thanks BJ! I felt really intimidated too...this was my third attempt at The Waves...i am really glad i finished it this time...it was definitely worth it.
Just finished Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell ... 36
the waves virginia woolf
 pj77 in 50 Book Challenge : 50 books for me this year (Jul 11, 2009, 4:48pm) 
Finished The Waves by Virginia Woolf last night. This was the first book by Woolf that I have read. It was not an easy book to read but I really loved it....sometimes i found myself so caught up ...
... schedule involves reading middlesex alongside life of pi, atomised, an american tragedy, on chesil beach & the waves
(good luck to me)
& speaking of good luck
mj (detailmuse): i think i did alright on my teacher certification exam as it was all english (literature, ... ... movie?
Les Amants de Byzance/Dark Angel by Mika Waltari
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
N/A
14) What is the most "lowbrow" book you've read as ... ... years old?
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Woolf's The Waves. I'm a devoted fan of avant garde stuff, but this one just never really came together. That said, I didn't hate it. I don't really read books that I think I'm not ... ... By Arthur Conan Doyle
17. Breaking Dawn By Stephanie Meyer
18. Lost in a Good Book By Jasper Fforde
19. The Waves By Virginia Woolfe
20. The Collector By John Fowles
21. Mary Barton By Elizabeth Gaskell
22. Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know By Barbara De Angeli ... I liked To the Lighthouse very much, and The Waves. Loved A Room of One's Own. I have Flush sitting there tbr. Most of it I read yonks ago in a course on the modern novel, so my memory is foggy (except that I kept my paper on "The Waves", so have it as a reminder). It will be ... ... Mrs Dalloway looked very much like Brie in my head....
OK, will check out To the Lighthouse and work up to the The Waves. Cheers TC!
I've just spend a few hours today doing another shift of the Great Catalogue Project. I think I am almost up the date with my library now. What a ... ... Now in my imagination, Mrs D looks irrevocably like Vanessa Redgrave!
Try To the Lighthouse and The Voyage Out. The Waves is regarded by my friend, who is currently doing his phd on her, as her masterpiece. I've read it, but it's really difficult. Beautiful, but difficult. ... reading Jacob's Room for a class I'm taking. It is really difficult. It's just a jumble of images, even more so than The Waves. My teacher said you could read it fifty times and not get it. Luckily, we're starting discussion this coming week, so I hope to soon be enlightened! I'll let you ... ... of predictable and boring. I need to read books that aren't so old and so European.
Best Novel: Ulysses tied with The Waves
Best Psychological Novel: Crime and Punishment
Best Romance: Victoria by Knut Hamsun; Du cote de chez swann
Best Memoir: Night
Best Political Novel: ... ... of predictable and boring. I need to read books that aren't so old and so European.
Best Novel: Ulysses tied with The Waves
Best Psychological Novel: Crime and Punishment
Best Romance: Victoria by Knut Hamsun; Du cote de chez swann
Best Memoir: Night
Best Political Novel: ... 41. Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1980s
42. All Quiet on the Western Front, 2005
43. The Waves, 2008
44. Gone with the Wind, 1970s
45. Out of Africa, 1980s
46. The Hobbit, 1970s
47. Of Mice and Men, 1970s
48. Rebecca, 1970s
49. The Little Prince, 1990s
50. The Pursuit of Love ... ... Apr 5
vi. Dubliners Finished May 31
vii. The Aeneid Finished June 25
viii. Dr Zhivago Finished Dec. 12
ix. The Waves Finished December 25 ... all your responses have been read and taken note of!
Thanks again!
JLNS
Further rambling: I ended up reading The Waves and Absalom, Absalom! too. To be perfectly honest, these shouldn't have been on the list - I had already started them! I guess I just thought I needed a push to ... I have to nudge My Antonia as well, followed by Of Mice and Men and The Waves.
Unfortunately, having no experience with the genres indicated for your brother, I cannot nudge anything. Sorry! ... .jpg">
(Photo: The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy), My Antonia (Willa Cather), Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), The Waves (Woolf), Paradise of the Blind (Thu Huong Duong), Love Among The Ruins (Robert Clark), Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), Two Novels by Robbe-Grillet (that's Je ... ... .jpg">
(Photo: The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy), My Antonia (Willa Cather), Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), The Waves (Woolf), Paradise of the Blind (Thu Huong Duong), Love Among The Ruins (Robert Clark), Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), Two Novels by Robbe-Grillet (that's Je ... ... (7 june-8 june)
4 middlesex jeffrey eugenides (20 june-30 june)
5 orlando virginia woolf (11 october-14 october)
6 the waves virginia woolf (19 july-26 july)
7 jacob's room virginia woolf (26 october-4 november)
8 the years virginia woolf (5 april-13 april)
9 between the acts ... ... and manager of the Woolf's Hogarth Press. At times a bit gossipy and occasionally insightful (especially when discussing The Waves), this writer's real coup is in the great photos he amassed for the book. Reading this will have to do until I can get to Quentin Bell's two-part biography of ... ... to admit that very early in the process of writing IHF I had a picture of somehow trying to imitate Virginia Woolf in The Waves. That faded eventually, but I'm aware of that book's influence still, subtly, in the way IHF is structured--the way the book keeps returning to these characters ... ... rereads are definitely in order.
I also have on my tbr pile A Room of One's Own, Jacob's Room, Night and Day, and The Waves.
Thanks rosemeria for starting this group read.
Finally! One I've read. So, yes to Midnight's Children. Anyone for The Waves, by Virginia Woolf? ... book. I think the Voyage Out would be painfully boring for someone who didn't have a reason to love Woolf already, and The Waves is her most experimental, modernist work. Really great, but difficult. I compare Woolf's writing to cubism in that it helps to know a bit about what the artist is ... ... toward the 1001 count, but you'll get an idea of what she's about before jumping into her more . . . arty (?) work such as The Waves. ... love VW--but have never read Orlando. I've read and own To the Lighthouse and have read and "lost" Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves--they are high on my list to replace. I own A Room of One's Own but haven't read it yet. I also have both Common Reader volumes and various extracts from ... ... Vindsetmo (journalist and author).
On my bookshelves:
Til fyret ('To the Lighthouse')
Mrs. Dalloway
Bølgene (The Waves)
Et eget rom ('A Room of One's Own)
Maybe Flush: a Biography would be a good one for beginning book group.
I plan to re-read Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves fairly soon because Mrs. D. is a fast read, I love it and I haven't read if for several years; The Waves I barely remember so I'd like to refresh that. I'm saving my re-re ... ... search for Flush and got sidetracked by discovering that Harcourt has published annotated edition of Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves, both of which I need to replace. See, lending a book and not getting it back is not always all bad. :-)
They also have annotated editions of Orlando and A ... ... ad:
Mrs. Dalloway 5 stars (I lent it and didn’t get it back)
The Waves must read again—don’t remember it well enough to rate
Books about Virginia Woolf I own:
Virginia ... MusicMom . . .
I totally agree that reading Virginia Woolf with others is way easier. I just read The Waves on my own and while I thought it was really beautiful, I just let the art wash over me and missed so much.
I just read The Poisonwood Bible in July. A great read. I enjoyed it ... ... back because it was illustrated by Edward Gorey and I, surprisingly, rather enjoyed it. I'll give To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Orlando a go one of these days but they're low on my priority list. ... To the Lighthouse was the book I picked up then, and its family of misfits and maladjustments was my reality. The Waves was next, a revelation of simplicity; Orlando was after that; I would that there were new ones to discover.
About the same time, I heard of the 50pp rule, ... I recently finished The Waves, which like Vonini says in post 36 about another Woolf book, had its moments. And it also took me forever to read (not the kind of book you need to read all in one gulp).
I'm now on to Sense and Sensibility, and chipping away at Midnight's Children for the ... The Waves, Virginia Woolf
This is considered Woolf's most experimental text, and that's saying a lot. I'll admit right off that I didn't understand much of what I was reading. But like a highly complex piece of music, or a sophisticated painting, it isn't necessary for the audience to ... Progress in August
35. The Waves
36. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
37. The Other Boleyn Girl
38. Midnight's Children
39. Alice, I Think
There's a chance I'll finish The Waves tonight. It's taken me since the beginning of summer, but it is indeed lovely. ...
52. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
53. Alice, I Think, Susan Juby
54. It's All Too Much, Peter Walsh
55. The Waves, Virginia Woolf
56. Darkness Visible, William Styron
57. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
58. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War & Unholy Terror, Ber ... Still enjoying The Waves, now and then. I've actually put it aside while I finish a couple of non-1001 books, but it's the kind of book that you can do that with. Still working on The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, and also dipping in and out of Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels. Neither are plot driven, and both are written in a poetical, lyrical style that lends itself to dipping in and out of. Which suits my very distracted life right now. :-)
... huge Virginia Woolf fan, I'm not sure that 9 of her novels needed to be there. In the new book there are 3: Mrs Dalloway, The Waves, and To the Lighthouse. These are generally considered her masterpieces and the ones that are studied in university. Any one who had read these three can go ... On one level, The Waves is a one-day novel. Although the story (if I can even use the word "story" in conjunction with The Waves) spans a lifetime, the monologues are "broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset." (To ... The book from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die that I'm currently reading is Virginia Woolf's The Waves. From The Waves by Virginia Woolf: "I will continue to make my survey of the purlieus of the house in the late afternoon, in the sunset, when the sun makes oleaginous spots on the linoleum . . . "
purlieus: environs, bounds, haunts, neighbourhood
oleaginous: oily
I like Woolf ... ... independently wealthy American who moves to Italy. Last night I read the very lengthy intro to Virginia Woolf's The Waves and I may give that a try, or perhaps I'll read Five Quarters of an Orange. What ever I read, this time it will be written by a woman. :-) ... love a complete set of Virginia Woolf novels by Folio as they are books I return and return to - Especially Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and to a lesser extent To the lighthouse. Still haven't read Orlando yet, I am waiting to read it in a nice edition! They did do a collection of her essays ... ... I've read have been ambivalent and I only want to pass on books with good reviews.
I do have one YA recommendation: Waves by Sharon Dogar. "Charley is trapped in her body, neither dead nor alive, after a swimming accident the previous year." "This story is spun with poetic prose ... 21. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. A reread but always a pleasure.
22. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
23. A series of unfortunate events: The reptile room by Lemony Snicket
24. A series of unfortunate events: The wide window by Lemony Snicket
25. The trial and death of Socrates: Four ... Great Expectations covers about 25 years, as does Tom Jones. Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne and The Waves by Virginia Woolf cover the same sort of time-frame in a more 'experimental' way.
Thinking about these books, they cover the time-span by 'telescoping' in some way; eg plenty ... ... my list (in addition to a big stack of Virago Modern Classics):
The Adventures of Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Evelina by Frances Burney
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Framley Parsonage by ... ... Marshall N. Klimasewiski (completed June 2008)
5. A Thousand Days in Venice, Marlena De Blasi (completed July 2008)
6. The Waves, Virginia Woolf (completed August 2008)
7. Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips (completed December 2008)
8. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Mariel Spark (comp ... 28. The Waves by Virginia Woolf - bought after seeing Katie Mitchell's incredible production at the National Theatre (twice).
So I sort of knew what to expect. But even so, the book blew me away. The writing is incredibly poetic, in all senses of the word - beautiful, full of vivid images, ... interesting range of choices for the next read, AnnaClaire!
I have three books I really want to finish this week: The Waves, In The Walled Gardens, and Underground. I'm enjoying them all in different ways, but I don't like reading little bits at a time - I prefer to be reading a book all ... ... could have saved myself the mistake...
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Oh! Tell us how it goes. I just bought an annotated version of The Waves. I hear it's her most experimental work. I have it scheduled to read after my next term at university is over, so late spring probably. I plan to read it very ... Sorry, I meant The Waves - bit of a brain warp there! If only the touchstones had been working I could have saved myself the mistake... The post office just delivered my early Christmas present order from Chapters-Indigo.ca:
- An annotated edition of The Waves
- The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing (hardback with a really pretty cover), by Danell Jones, and
- The Bedside, Bat ... ... a different writer to Lawrence in terms of style, content, but also her focus is elsewhere. During my MA I studied The Waves and conceded that it is neither a great read nor a page turner. The reason that I adore the work is that it explores so many fundamental issues - who we are, how ... ... thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
83. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
... send you a page at a time to your email. Its free but they only do older books that arent copyrighted.
I just finished The waves which I read in book form. I loved this book. It was much easier to read than Mrs. Dalloway and to me much more moving.
... To the lighthouse are jarred I think for that reason. One of my favourite novel (which I also found very hard to read) is The Waves because I find it fascinating how the stream of conscious narrative allows each character to question who they are and how their character took on this form. Ident ... ... agree on Orlando and A Room of One's Own, and I also LOVE the description of how the light touches different objects in The Waves. Yes, VW definitely could do wondrous things with her pen! ... the weather - I am so rooting for Mrs. Ramsay! (Don't tell me - I will read the novel sooner or later.) And the opening to The Waves is so mysterious. I questioned whether children would really use such sophisticated language - and yet that is part of the suspense: they seem to be extraordinary ... ...
I really want to get to Firmin asap too, as it has been highly recommended by two book friends. OTOH....I want to get to The Waves by Virginia Woolf asap too......drat! Karlus,
Thank you for such a great comparison study. I have read Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, still have The Waves in my stack...quite near the top. Maybe I ought to bring A Room of One's Own near the top as well. :)
I fully agree that "feminist author" does not give Woolf ... ... I have to say, Shakespeare never made me wince with his forced mawkishness like Woolf did. Have a look at this passage from The Waves:
"And then tiring of pursuit and flight, lovelily they came descending, delicately declining, dropped down and sat silent on the tree, on the wall, with their ... ... reverie of her youthful self and her distaste for her daughter is probably the best known example, but only Susan in The Waves has children. Gertrude Stein, Jean Rhys, Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen and others explored many aspects of being childfree (and often of being ... Eurydice -- ooooh, get The Waves some time, if not that copy -- it's my favorite book of all time and, like The Hours, I gave it away once only to regret it later! I'm keeping an eye out for that one, and you'd also have to fight my other friend on BM, Lani, who's angling for a copy. Think I'll ... I'm a list freak! glad to stumble upon this group.
& nice to see some VW love, because I'd take three:
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway by VW
To the Lighthouse by VW
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Candide by Voltaire
The Passion by Jeanette Winterso ... ... top 10 as of now (which means I'm probably crazy enough to already have attempted such a list once upon a time...)
1.The Waves
2.Crime and Punishment
3.The Master and Margarita
4.The Magic Mountain
5.The Trial
6.The Grapes of Wrath
7.And Quiet Flows the Don
8.The Longes ...
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