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Comment on Thinking about Woolf and writing by Paula Maggio

Paula Maggio — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:49 +0000

Thanks for adding those connections, Alice. Perhaps other readers will find more.

Comment on Thinking about Woolf and writing by Alice

Alice — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:57:04 +0000

Hi Paula – I saw 3 more Woolf-influenced novelists in the NY Times Top 100: Alice Munro, who has made direct reference to Woolf in a few of her stories as well as indirect allusion; Kate Walbert, who used Woolf in a couple of the linked stories that comprised her previous novel, Our Kind; and Margaret Atwood, who started Oryx and Crake with an epigraph from To the Lighthouse and cited Woolf a couple of times within the novel. Alice

Comment on What book changed your life? by Paula Maggio

Paula Maggio — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:44:39 +0000

I went on a Dickens binge once, so I know what you mean. Ah, the power of the pen! Thanks for commenting.

Comment on Woolf’s Waves inspired solo piano ballads by Paula Maggio

Paula Maggio — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:43:22 +0000

Hi, Iolanda. Good to hear from you. Please consider writing for Blogging Woolf.

Comment on What book changed your life? by Margaret Solomon

Margaret Solomon — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:39:30 +0000

I think I would have to say “Tale of Two Cities,” because, at 15, I was enthralled by the Dickens’ narrative skill and locked on to English lit and never looked back . ..”Antony and Cleopatra” gave me a love for Shakespeare and poetry at 20…Later, “The Feminist Mystique” turned me into a feminist

Comment on Woolf’s Waves inspired solo piano ballads by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:01:23 +0000

thought I’d come out of the lurk and say hi! it’s been a while. I read the blog faithfully and it’s looking wonderful- Iolanda (Rome)

Comment on Mrs. Dalloway is having a party in San Francisco by francessssca

francessssca — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:15:58 +0000

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Comment on Review: The White Garden by Stephanie Barron by Margaret Gosden

Margaret Gosden — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:33:40 +0000

I am outraged by your acceptance of Barron’s use of Woolf and Vita’s White Garden to create a juvenile sort of mystery. This blending of fact and fiction is a traversty. Perhaps because I am a Woolfian I find it objectionable, but I also love a good mystery and this one is awful, with its dubious nuances about the interests of some people who are not alive to object or sue. I say that a good novelist could do better by NOT using the crutch of
much documentation, established by painstaking scholarship.

Comment on What book changed your life? by Kevin Neilson

Kevin Neilson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:32:04 +0000

Plato, because one can write in richly metaphorical language without indulging in nonsense.

Kant, because one can write in disgustingly turgid prose without indulging in nonsense.

Schopenhauer, because he offers a plausible solution to the problem of life and a compelling aesthetic theory to boot.

Searle, because he’s the best at analyzing the systematic connections between third-person biological processes and first-person conscious states.

Walden, because the daily bread of experience is our most important spiritual sacrament.

My Antonia, because setting, place, landscape matters; or characters are deeply rooted.

Little, Big, because the evocation of mood is an unplumbable mystery.

The Power of the Dog, because under-appreciated gems can still illuminate the darkest recesses of the mind.

Quixote, because Sancho Panza is eternal; and we are not.

Gilead and Home, because great taut skeins of light stretch between them.

Cheers,

Kevin
Between the Lines
http://jkneilson.wordpress.com

Comment on What book changed your life? by Martha

Martha — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:52:21 +0000

I love your response!