I’ll be spending my weekend reading 1924 books in preparation for the 1924 Club kicking off on Monday – I unwisely decided to start quite a few books at once, but I’m hoping to finish at least one of them by Monday. Of course, the club readalong will be going on over a fortnight, so plenty of time!
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) The blog post – speaking of readalongs, Ali has come up with a really brilliant Woolf readalong plan for 2016. It’s a very thoughtful look at Woolf’s life and career, with plenty of opportunities for the Woolf devotee or the Woolf newbie. I’m looking forward to lots of Woolf re-reading, and maybe even finally getting around to reading her letters and diaries.
2.) The link – Koko the gorilla had a birthday and picked some kittens to be her pets. Then she signed ‘put it on my head’. Koko is the gorilla we all deserve.
3.) The book – I’ve had my eye on this for a while, in my Amazon wishlist, but just spotted it in a shop the other day. I resisted (partly because my birthday isn’t too far away!) but this Princeton University Press reprinted edition of Alice with illustrations by Salvador Dali looks like a must for my small but beautiful Alice collection (featuring thus far Tenniel and Tove Jansson).
Do you have the version of Alice with illustrations by John Vernon Lord? If not I do think you would love it; I do!
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/08/john-vernon-lord-alice/
Also the version illustrated by Mervyn Peake which I gave as a present to a good friend, and former PhD student, to celebrate the birth of her first child.
I don’t know of JVL – thanks very much! Alice does seem to attract many wonderful illustrators. So much material for the imagination!
That edition of Alice looks SO interesting. I have my eye on Anna Rifle Bond’s illustrated Alice. I already have the calendar.
Oo, I’ll also keep an eye out for that one too!
Isn’t Ali’s idea wonderful! I aim to join in!
It’s wonderful! I doubt I’ll manage to join in all of them, but it would certainly be fun to do some.
i like knowing the price of your more unusual buys–i can only admire your lavish spending.No offence meant.
Out of interest, why is it that you’re interested in the prices? (And I’m not in the position to go for anything TOO lavish, sadly, but manage to economise on other things to make sure I can have a ready supply of books :))
Thanks Simon glad so many people seem so keen on a VW read-a-long.
When I started blogging, nobody seemed to talk about Woolf – now she’s everywhere, and hopefully even moreso now with this initiative!
The 1924 read-along sounds wonderful but it’s also the time for atmospheric spooky reads so that’s won out. Have a lovely weekend, Simon!
Aw, there must be a spooky 1924 read somewhere… there’s a challenge.
The Dali illustrations look interesting. I may have to look for it. I think it would me much to easy to start collecting Alice gooks for their illustrations.
It would definitely be too easy and too tempting!