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• Are “dysfunctional Families” Really That Dysfunctional?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 558
  Some food for thought about the function of families. A functional family. How do we define a dysfunctional family? It usually gets associated with parents, who in a very visible way, don’t love each other. Typically children don’t cause a breakdown in the proverbial happy family, but its the often poisonous ...
  20 hours ago

• Reading On: The Years

  
  Ore's Notes — Authority: 118
  Started Virginia Woolf s The Years a few days ago. Im not quite on 1-book-a-day. Must cram in all other sorts of fun activity and sleep in my break afterall.
  1 day ago

• Five fashionable views of Virginia

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 112
  Hannah Teare is a London-based fashion stylist whose credits include Virginia Woolf. Yes, the fashion editor for the society magazine Tatler was the stylist for a series of five fashion shots named after Woolf. I’m not sure why they bear Woolf’s name, but I’ll try to come up with some connections. In four ...
  4 days ago

• Woolf novels inspire Bangkok dance premiere

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 112
  Two of Virginia Woolf’s novels helped inspire a new dance that premiered late last month in Bangkok. Contemporary dancer Setsuko Yamada, one of the leading figures in dance in Japan, premiered the solo dance piece “ Wearing Rose Pink ” at the Patravadi Theatre on Nov. 27 and 28. It was described as a ...
  4 days ago

• A Truth Universally Acknowledged: About Jane Austen

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 432
  Janeites will love A Truth Universally Acknowledged, a collection of essays by 33 famous writers and critics acknowledging the genius of Jane Austen. Her admirers will have the pleasure of discovering their feelings shared by writers like Virginia Woolf, EM Forster, Somerset Maugham, CS Lewis, JB Priestley, ...
  5 days ago

• Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 729
  If youre of a certain age, you mightve seen Simple Gifts: 6 Heartwarming Holiday Stories on PBS in the late 70s or early 80s. Maybe you enjoyed it as much as I did, or maybe you still will. Prologue, by Maurice Sendak. 1. A Memory of Christmas part one , part two 2. Lost And Found 3. Excerpted from Orlando ...
  5 days ago

• Fiction Review: Virginia Woolf, "Blue & Green"

  
  Pol Culture — Authority: 99
  Virginia Woolf contemplates colors, asking the reader to consider them in tangible and intangible form, as well as from objective and subjective points-of-view."Blue & Green" is featured in Virginia Woolfs short-story collection Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories, available for sale from Powells Books. To purchase a ...
  1 week ago

• Last-minute gift ideas with Woolf connection

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 112
  Whatever holiday you celebrate, you may need a last-minute gift idea for a favorite reader. Here are a few books that could suffice. The bonus is that each has a Virginia Woolf connection, however slim. Writers’ Houses is a book produced by Francesca Premoli-Droulers that includes wonderful photographs of the ...
  1 week ago

• Culture Warrior: The Gesamtkuntswerk

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 634
  The gesamtkunstwerk is an idea popularized (though not originated) by German composer Richard Wagner . The term roughly means “total artwork,” or an art form that is able to utilize and contain within itself all other forms of art. Wagner employed this idea in his magnum opus, the epic opera The Ring Cycle ...
  1 week ago

• More of those telling details lifted from real life, or, well-mannered camel seeks wiser man

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Last time, in the midst of indulging my passion for telling details, I forgot to tell you about my recent holiday encounter with the camel pictured above. If this isn’t a story where the specifics provide all of the characterization needed…well, I let you judge for yourself. While you’re at it, why not ...
  1 week ago

• Orlando (1992)

  
  Stuff — Authority: 132
  Orlando is a movie by Sally Potter based on Virginia Woolf ’s book of the same name , starring Tilda Swinton , Quentin Crisp and Billy Zane . Plot: Orlando (Virginia Woolf) is a young man during the reign of Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp). When he vows never to grow old, he doesn’t. The movie follows his ...
  1 week ago

• Woolf sighting in “Kid-Lit”: Anastasia Krupnik meets Septimus Smith

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 112
  Mark Hussey sent out an alert on the Woolf list-serv that the children’s book, Anastasia at This Address (1991), by Lois Lowry, has a character in it named Septimus Smith. I checked it out at the library and read it with pleasure, while engaging in some nostalgia as I thought back on some of the books I read in ...
  1 week ago

• Listening to Winter: What Season Are You?

  
  Attention Training — Authority: 103
  Picture this.  A woman (or man) awakens.  It is a small, actually tiny, mountain town in upstate New York and it has mostly been built up around a mid-sized mountain lake.  The majority of the area is lightly forested and the gun-metal light of December puts a steely sheen on everything.  It has snowed early this ...
  1 week ago

• HALF PARTY, HALF MOVIE

  
  Viceland.com — Authority: 480
  …Tonight, at the Old Blue Last, there will be a screening of the new VBS film, Swansea Love Story . It has been described as “heartwarming, engaging and darkly amusing” and “the must see British film of the year” by the Guardian , and “stunning, shocking, touching and deeply moving” by the London ...
  2 weeks ago

• Angry Woolf and tribunals overloaded

  
  Hesketh Mediation — Authority: 106
  Hes not happy ... I didn’t have time back in October to write about two connected stories that hit the legal press. Firstly the Gazette reported Lord Woolf raps solicitors for CPR failings . If you look at the url for this story it appears they originally wanted to use “slams” instead of “raps”. Whatever, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Winifred Gill and the Omega Workshops

  
  Venetian Red — Authority: 118
  by Christine CariatiWinifred Gill, Sketch of dancers, 1916Pencil, ink and watercolor on paperThe Bodleian Library, OxfordWinifred Gill (1891-1981) was one of the unsung heroines of the Omega Workshops. The task of  creating patterns or translating existing designs to be used on textiles, furniture and home ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stray Virginia Woolf Thought

  
  zhiv — Authority: 109
  I’ve been blocked on blogging, and keep trying to break through, and one of the things I’ve been meaning to try is to just sit down and type something up, almost randomly. I like my basic approach, which is to read something, and then write about it in an early morning session sitting in my chair. I love the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Queen’s refocuses amid budget problems

  
  Macleans OnCampus — Authority: 135
  University to shift resources to "brand" programs
  2 weeks ago

• Requiem for a phantom

  
  Corrente — Authority: 638
  (cross-posted at vastleft.com ) A comment subject-line at Open Left : Chris: Is there any way to include the public option via reconciliation after this bill passes? Sadly, such questions persist. Ordinarily sensible bloggers across the leftysphere are ruing the demise of "the" "public option" -- as if it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rumorati: PokerStars Buying PokerPages + other poker media shifts, lawsuits, and shutdowns

  
  Pokerati | Texas Hold'em and Las Vegas Poker Blog — Authority: 480
  Unconfirmed … but that’s the word we’re spreading, based on possibly drinky information from a semi-reliable source, a presumably reliable source, and a plausibly reliable source. The status of PokerPages has been up in the air ever since they announced they’d be closing up shop effective Oct. 31 . That day ...
  2 weeks ago

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