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Read like Virginia Woolf

Read like Virginia Woolf

"That’s the real point of my little brown book…that it makes me read —with a pen—following the scent."

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For Virginia Woolf, one of history’s greatest literary minds, to read was to converse, to hunt, to emulate, to savor. Reading was transcendent. It was a love affair.

She confessed,

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.1

Virginia Woolf photograph by George Charles Beresford (1902)

Best known for her novel Mrs. Dalloway, Virgini…

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