2026-04-13T06:12:51Z https://yabu.me wordybirdy https://yabu.me/npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/accounts/avatars/114/177/502/549/680/957/original/21515a13a55f4042.jpg https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/accounts/avatars/114/177/502/549/680/957/original/21515a13a55f4042.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdgt36uqzxyq4fhl7cc5klhpnjqlukqcv4x2m2wxtcgllhmrwzcvszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zg7mh3y OK, Albert Entwistle, get the heck outta here; you were rottenly written, dreadfully dialogued, and utterly unbelievable.<br/><br/>Now it&#39;s all up to Vita Sackville-West to put things right, with her 1931 novel, All Passion Spent.<br/><br/>Sackville-West was a hugely popular writer in her day, but is rarely read or even discussed in the present (outside of her much-mulled-over love affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf).<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon 2026-04-19T12:49:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd0f3v8p7757907ldq02nxyn5v7pfeskj7t3j2gcf3kftjmf4t77czyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zgnjukc Recommend to me your favourite books that have THE greatest plot twists!<br/><br/>I&#39;m talking about plot twists that made you gasp, made your jaw drop, made you stare off into the middle distance for an hour.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s two of my own favourites:<br/><br/>🔀 The Man From Primrose Lane by James Renner<br/>🔀 Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane<br/><br/>I wish I could read both of those again for the first time, and be stunned all over again.<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-08-19T10:14:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst6kzqsvr0v5fmqq5hhca7n6wzhtukcjh272z6h52jt2htyat04pgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48z7xv6cx OK, The PowerBook is the last of my unread Jeanette Winterson novels, so I&#39;m going to read it &amp; then I shall have the perfect excuse to buy MORE! Muah ha ha!<br/><br/>This one sounds right up my alley:<br/>&#34;An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life... But there is a price to pay.&#34;<br/><br/>#bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-08-04T19:08:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs06x2ggpfl37y3szkc5dvk7sssqm3addvm385u6ukz6kzep9rk8kgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zp3mmr2 I&#39;m a day late in remembering the writer William Burroughs, b1914, d1997 on 2nd August at 83. <br/><br/>I discovered his work (by way of Queer) in 1987 when I was 17 years old. Burroughs somehow connected with me where other writers failed to. He had an extraordinary wild and dark humour, and a sharp vision of the world and its overwhelming BS.<br/><br/>I haven&#39;t read him in a couple of years and need to rectify that.<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/964/123/412/722/308/original/709ad456d91a7116.jpg"> <br/> 2025-08-03T09:29:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrkltx78hc345mt3q8fn8qhwhsp7t5ju0kxkaxx3f49j9y9k76ekszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zstwewj Back to Jeanette Winterson I go. This time it&#39;s Written on the Body (1992). According to the blurb on the back cover I am about to be taken &#34;on a beguiling and defying exploration of love and its physical forms&#34;. Which sounds quite nice for a cloudy Monday afternoon.<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/930/559/322/922/085/original/0bf413bca14bf8d8.jpg"> <br/> 2025-07-28T11:15:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs93j57jxp53y5qkz60f5q57ydqjqjqqap0ehdtnmw6l88wzau3e6gzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zzx90xk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspncaq5uc3c726j4qge3qz0h69ntvgnpxwdnkdxw9s56d6n6en58q90pzkt'>nevent1q…pzkt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m so glad it appealed to you both! You&#39;re ahead of me already, I&#39;ve yet to start it. Plan on opening it shortly. 2025-07-16T21:12:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqzs7c392gkqcq8hjm0qxnzcksykqrgdhqw95m830ur07dtu90hjgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zz0ydu6 About to begin a most fascinating book: Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World&#39;s Strangest Brains by Helen Thompson. A non-fiction work about how wacky our grey matter can be. <br/><br/>The back of the book says:<br/>&#34;Imagine... Being permanently lost / seeing auras / never forgetting a moment / an endless hallucination / switching personalities / becoming unreal / feeling other people&#39;s pain / waking up dead / turning into a tiger.&#34;<br/><br/>I&#39;m intrigued! 🧠 <br/><br/>#bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/863/240/510/675/075/original/3804f3524b066107.jpg"> <br/> 2025-07-16T13:56:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8lp09smatk632jt0mnn25aq6pazgt6wf46cushk0juncvygjehggzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zyek3fc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs28d9dl5zdnhlgnqf6c8rkgu34df6gyuwpfhc5aytcwpl7waeu3xsvca7j3'>nevent1q…a7j3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Update on Five Weeks In a Balloon by Jules Verne, which I&#39;m almost done with (70pp left). <br/><br/>The writing&#39;s engaging, &amp; the situations interesting. The characters, well, uh. The doctor&#39;s ok; the &#34;sportsman&#34; companion is a trigger-happy dickhead, &amp; the young assistant is annoyingly chirpy -- or was. Spoiler. I&#39;m enjoying it enough to give it a *** out of *****. Don&#39;t see that changing. <br/><br/>This isn&#39;t the most popular of Verne&#39;s works, so I&#39;m still excited to read his later novels. <br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-07-13T14:05:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs28d9dl5zdnhlgnqf6c8rkgu34df6gyuwpfhc5aytcwpl7waeu3xszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zl6r63r It&#39;s up, up and away with my new read, Five Weeks In a Balloon by Jules Verne, the first in a seven book box set (I&#39;m reading my way through chronologically).<br/><br/>Written in 1863, it &#34;describes the journey undertaken by three British gentlemen across the continent of Africa, from Zanzibar to the French settlement near the Senegal river&#34;.<br/><br/>Adventure time! 🌍 <br/><br/>#books #reading #bookstodon #SciFi <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/772/534/717/552/375/original/70edc9dc21b326a2.jpg"> <br/> 2025-06-30T13:26:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxpz9ept94v99p6hr5fnluej3f9amffratnrexymssfva97gf7qhgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48z0kz6xq Had a sudden yen to read Fanny &amp; Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna. The blurb on the back says it&#39;s &#34;The gripping story of the trial that shook Victorian England -- a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examinations and the invention of camp.&#34; Should be fascinating!<br/><br/>#reading #books #NonFiction <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/689/116/472/327/915/original/3cd144f62683d1e1.jpg"> <br/> 2025-06-15T19:51:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9gevw9c9zqdxdx50v9vjmufghr27dwghx77t94vwpeeuz7ju525qzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zzpmv0l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmsn579lwlfcpak40xdwpcef9f7frentmu2xx0pk8fu5htqfef5get9fk5'>nevent1q…9fk5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Jules Verne has landed! 🚀 <br/><br/>This is a good selection to begin with. I hadn&#39;t realised he was such a prolific writer. I&#39;m in for some cracking adventures, I think.<br/><br/>Two of these novels have been made into marvellous adventure games, which I have played, replayed, and loved.<br/><br/>#reading #books <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> #SciFi<br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/654/678/925/602/410/original/3ac48e07f61a7221.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-06-09T17:55:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq660p3rpuspgux2yj9wrwm2ygh9eu4jxj0ka0rpky3vtv0ztselgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zu3tdza Throwing myself a curveball, as I&#39;m about to start reading William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin by Spike Milligan. Milligan is a supremely silly writer, and I feel that I need a big dollop of supremely silly right now.<br/><br/>The book is filled with his line drawings! Bonus!<br/><br/>#reading #books <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-06-09T12:46:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqmsn579lwlfcpak40xdwpcef9f7frentmu2xx0pk8fu5htqfef5gzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zqfrxyu I have an absolute and sudden craving to read everything by Jules Verne. 🌍 <br/><br/>#reading #books 2025-06-08T12:48:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswrp40xmdwqz0n42h9ppp2nuz839pzqg9msy897rwgu0ed593pymczyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48z99yxkc Reading Jeanette Winterson&#39;s memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, and it&#39;s one of those books that impels you forward, mercilessly, in horror and fascination and empathy, and, I hope, eventually, joy, too.<br/><br/>#reading #books <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-06-06T14:55:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvldgywqgemp8d5thdtatu3xpxtjsm2rz9gn832qycv9v26wngahszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48z3dsunj Ten pages left of Howards End and EVERYTHING is happening, it&#39;s all utterly dramatic and I&#39;m having a wonderful time. All it&#39;s really lacking is for Margaret Dumont to be fired out of a cannon at the denouement.<br/><br/>#reading #books <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-06-02T12:51:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv2wavmt77c8mpc6fmvupzvfm5cjkerzfj0qcla2vtm0lj9lcam4qzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zpwxtxl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrtwtc4cw4kssr6xpxdfprdqtuh3utym4l5gfhfydy268fmx5a9wg4zlc8l'>nevent1q…lc8l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ha! We read Of Mice and Men too. I enjoyed that one, but yes it was bleak. I always thought that school syllabuses should include the Sherlock Holmes stories; kids would adore studying those. That&#39;s the way to inspire kids to read more. 2025-05-25T19:03:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2cujnxlqhas2jka4m3u0966n6q8fy055m2m3fnt2v5rleufq4wxszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zla4k6q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswfyhvqclsx24822qf4cku3m72m7pcn9g438q4deuh2v3x020l8tc0gf8cv'>nevent1q…f8cv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wish we&#39;d been assigned Forster or Woolf at school. We were lumped with Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) and Dickens (Hard Times), and both drove me mad, the latter especially. What a dirge! 2025-05-25T18:47:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0ck76jq3syd0hmncptw4tn0fmz4yzr2nprkcpp2fgkl066952nvczyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zqzxpgd Book haul! I guess I&#39;m on a Jeanette Winterson kick right now. I&#39;ll be starting her memoir as soon as I finish Howards End (which I&#39;m halfway through and having a GLORIOUS time with).<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span><br/> <img src="https://bookstodon-files.web.thunderhost.net/media_attachments/files/114/568/569/378/854/308/original/00a8ed8e92c469b4.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-05-25T12:57:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrz4fhxh06wj9xl84yj8hu6xec9rsfxve46dvgss9m2glkwwm4n9czyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48z7fwqu0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqxz6vvlg4g87z8czdkgshcgj5vumjt8gtzluth3h9hur9dmqljdsjd0975'>nevent1q…0975</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I found a copy of Forster&#39;s stories which includes it. The blurb says: &#34;Forster, who deplored science fiction, wrote the story in response to an optimistic depiction of the future by H. G. Wells.&#34; Sounds interesting. 2025-05-19T10:17:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9n6uj7uka8pwswwhk83kf0rnwyjhzl2ejez5lmunu5zkpgawgp9gzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zdgqxyf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx3kpkc43yr77af6n3xvfuv3j4pr7cvegfy8y3rw9rrlfcuahf76g2jtdus'>nevent1q…tdus</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh I&#39;ve heard of that, but not read it. I think I did look for it at one time, but couldn&#39;t find it in print. I&#39;ll have another forage. Thank you! 2025-05-19T10:03:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx6httl9v80v0nntqda827uv8as49fjgpa7a8pk6q9cgnwwu9m3dczyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zc7235n There&#39;s something about E.M. Forster&#39;s writing that makes me want to read him in the springtime. I read and enjoyed A Room With a View a few weeks ago, and am now about to start on Howards End, the last of the unread Forsters on my bookshelf. <br/><br/>I think Howards End might be his most popular novel? (No, I just checked, and apparently that&#39;s A Passage to India -- which bored the life out of me when I read it years ago, ugh!).<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-05-19T09:54:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy4hsvw75rwnj49q4u23u8jcdd490tz4xulv2zkkuppmg8nwlwh4gzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zktqkh4 #CurrentlyReading <br/>Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson. <br/><br/>This is my fourth Winterson, with a long gap between this and the third. I had almost forgotten how beautifully she writes, how sharp and precise her wordplay and humour. No padding or waffle; it&#39;s straight to the point, and I appreciate that.<br/><br/>What&#39;s everyone reading this weekend?<br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-05-16T13:03:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0w47xge95j37lkpwq6k2au8ad8jssdljhpty4844ce86cqunchdczyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zqzzpwz Interesting article from The Guardian on where to start with Virginia Woolf, prompted by the 100th anniversary of the publication of Mrs Dalloway. The article unfortunately omits any mention of Orlando -- my favourite of Woolf&#39;s novels! That was where I started, and it blew my mind. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/14/where-to-start-with-virginia-woolf?CMP=share_btn_url">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/14/where-to-start-with-virginia-woolf?CMP=share_btn_url</a><br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-05-14T12:06:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvpp25pwju6lgqmvgy4q9yxvn4au7fp0cl78jt8cl2nfwffurg8qgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zyptgd7 Just finished reading Virginia Woolf&#39;s short story collection, and I stand by my earlier thought that Woolf&#39;s endings are too abrupt and anticlimactic. Left with a feeling of HUH? <br/><br/>Next up: A Room With a View by E.M. Forster. Perfect reading for the long holiday weekend!<br/><br/>#books #reading #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-04-15T13:51:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqhrh5r3jcl0r4y2ux33d7s07qw399ftguqkqnh42t46dwvsn900qzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48z6xxhvl #CurrentlyReading <br/><br/>I&#39;m halfway through The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf, and not convinced that this format suits Woolf&#39;s writing style. She enjoys wild tangents of fancy that are wonderful in a long form novel, but here suffer from not being able to breathe, and the stories end too abruptly. Nevertheless, so far there are a couple of gems. <br/><br/>What do others here think of her short stories? I&#39;d be curious to know!<br/><br/>What are you all reading this weekend?<br/><br/>#bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-04-11T13:05:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgtuqec739ena9043c89vqudgcwjs59xrqpz6chacaeewf4kn9gjgzyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zrzc0ed Have been whizzing through books this past week! Now about to dive into The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf. If the stories are anywhere near as good as the font is massive (and it&#39;s startlingly massive), I&#39;m in for a treat. 😅 <br/><br/>#reading #books #bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-04-07T11:04:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxnlzx23kj3y7rw3n24e858x07ugc79zcxpqyv7m8lsrwpg50ajrszyq3pfr48ay7qge9lmxuht9jajv9lw6tsz78nv8w6y6jnm3aq5c48zsr8rdj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqgndkqlfftfjsjgy4ud5va8cdzumke40zs8uj4ptpnnl8clwtg6g4zfyz3'>nevent1q…fyz3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I rather enjoyed Birthday by Meredith Russo, it&#39;s a popular one I think, so you may have already read it/heard of it. 2025-03-18T12:28:14Z