- Title: Virginia Woolf
- Author: Mary Ann Caws
- Year Published: 2001 (The Overlook Press)
- Year Purchased: 2002
- Source: Barnes & Noble clearance rack
- About: The beauty of this volume is not in famed academic Caws’ disappointingly standard-issue prose but in the abundance of photographs decorating the pages. It’s a wee book you can read in an hour. The eclectic images of Woolf and her circle will make you pick it up again and again; most of the photos do not suffer from being over-published. They are fresh and compelling. My favourite is the back of a stripe-shirted (Dora) Carrington.
- Motivation: Virginia Woolf! There’s nothing more to it than that.
- Times Read: 2 or 3
- Random Excerpt/Page 36: “Monk’s House was a perfect place for living and for visitors, for Leonard’s gardening and their writing. Endless discussions took place there, some of which are recounted in Virginia’s letters. Work went on constantly wherever Virginia and Leonard were, whether in Hogarth House or Monk’s House.”
- Happiness Scale: 9 (for the photographs)
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Ditto.
A person can find the most interesting books on the clearance rack, no? I picked up the novel “English” by Wang Gang and could NOT put it down. One of those clearance rack gems.
Agreed. I find such interesting books on the cheap racks, ones that I would never read otherwise. I’ve heard good things about “English” but have not read it yet.