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Book Club Read: Wolf Down the Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway

12th February 2016 by Gemma Leave a Comment

Mrs Dalloway

Over at Instagram, there is a lovely book community where you can find people who would like to read books together and share their thoughts on it after — like a book club, but online! I love it, as I discover multiple books of different genres, and also get a chance to read a few of the classics that some people might have already read. I have always been better at reading books when I have a deadline, but I’m terrible at self-imposed deadlines, so a reading group is my best motivator.

With that said, I happened upon lovely ladies who wanted to discover pioneering writer Virginia Woolf, and I jumped at the chance to join them. I would never have picked this book up otherwise, despite how curious I am to see why it is considered a classic. Resh over at The Book Satchel (and over here on Instagram) coined up the brilliant tag ‘Wolf Down the Woolf‘ for our group, to use for read-along related posts.

Mrs. Dalloway is probably Virginia Woolf’s most well-known novel, and most say her most accessible. It was first published in 1925 by Hogarth Press, a publishing company founded by the authoress and her husband, Leonard Woolf.

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Reading Challenge 2015: A Study in Scarlet

17th February 2015 by Gemma Leave a Comment

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1887 in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. Now famous all over the world, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson were first introduced in this narrative. The mystery involves a dead man found in an abandoned house in Brixton, south London. The obvious clues are a woman’s wedding ring, two letters addressed to two different names, and a word scrawled in the wall with blood. I say obvious because they were the easiest to find. This is Sherlock Holmes we are talking about after all.

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Reading Challenge 2015: Anne of Green Gables

5th February 2015 by Gemma Leave a Comment

Anne of Green Gables
My ebook had the entire Anne Shirley series in one collection so I didn’t have a cover of just the Anne of Green Gables book.

Anne of Green Gables is a work of fiction by Lucy Maud Montgomery. First published in 1908, it is a popular children’s novel about the adventures of eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island in Canada. Anne mistakenly gets sent to be adopted by siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who originally wanted a boy to help around their farmhouse called Green Gables. Matthew liked Anne from the start, in contrast to Marilla’s gradual fondness for the girl. She initially wanted to send Anne back to the orphanage, but decided to let her stay after a few days. This first book in a series of eight narrates of Anne’s life with the Cuthberts, building relationships with people in the Avonlea community, and her time in school.

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Born in Manila, based in London. Endless curiosity turns into infinite adventures.    "I read; I travel; I become."

 

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