Binge Reading June

A quick update & resources

Our near daily binge reading gatherings are gradually settling into a handy pattern. I am going to try to do more early morning (as well as the evening) because of the heatwaves. I am trying to start earlier in the pm to include our Ontario and East Coast friends because obviously we are 3 hours behind you out West. There has been some competition from the football this week, but we’ve managed to amply navigate the lure.

I was delighted to learn we had our youngest readers (twin 5 year old boys) who joined with their mama the other day, even though the concept is a little confusing. I really would love teenagers to join us, especially if they are reading for school or struggling to get started or need to finish something they have to read.

I offer the following resources for those reading Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out. My reading has been disrupted a bit by having to read several books for review/paid work, but I will probably finish it today or tomorrow.

Yesterday I was reading a selection of pieces from this Woolf essay collection The Common Reader

The Modernism Lab page on the novel written by Book Post favourite Anthony Domestico is a reminder of the toil and toll the novel took on Woolf.

Woolf reading Joyce (1922-1941) is also rather curious

And finally here are some great audiobook resources of many of Woolf’s works

It may be helpful for some to listen and read the text simultaneously. I am an audio fiend, so I am sometimes reading a physical book, an ebook and an audiobook of the same work or even different works simultaneously. There are transportation/travel and movement reasons for this. Also, I enjoy thinking about which elements of the text and language I’m alert to in the various mediums.

Historically it was common enough for people to read literature aloud to each other, so we were not always glued to phones and exclusively optic nerve!

More soon…

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