Okay. Perhaps drunk on packing paper and cardboard boxes more like. What is it with cats and boxes and cats wanting to lay on whatever it is you happened to have touched last? You can't tell from the photo, but Dulce actually had this sort of glazed look on her face after she played in the box and then with the paper. Now she's wiped out. I guess I would be the one drunk on literature.
My order from Pennyworth Books came yesterday (hence the box, packing paper and tired cat). All books are new and only 5 bucks a piece (and free shipping one six or more books!). I must have bought just about all of Harcourt's backlist when it comes to Virginia Woolf. By chance Litlove also posted about Virginia Woolf on Friday--see she keeps popping up, so I am just destined to read her. I wish I could be as articulate as Litlove is when discussing authors and books (see post on Virginia Woolf!...), but when it comes to Woolf I just want to make sure I understand what I am reading, and you may simply have to listen to me say something along the lines as--"now I am totally confused" (well, hopefully not), or "wow, this is wonderful"--and I will at least try and explain my reasons why. I may have gone a bit overboard, but they had so many books by Woolf and she has written so much, I couldn't decide which to choose. So I have ended up with: To the Lighthouse (I read this once before a long time ago, but I want to try it again and try and understand it and appreciate it more than the first attempt), A Haunted House and Other Stories (I thought short stories might be an easy way to approach Woolf before diving into her novels), The Waves (I only read that this was set on the coast of England against the backdrop of the sea--and I was sold. I didn't realize this is one of her harder novels. I'll save this for later....much later!), The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Women and Writing: Remarkable Pieces on the Writing Life of Women (I really want to read this one--she writes about Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, as well as others--looks wonderful), The Virginia Woolf Reader (most likely could have done without this one, as I think there is lots of overlap with the other books, but oh well), A Room of One's Own (really, really want to read this one too--probably already should have--this one is an annotated edition), and finally A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary (how many diaries did Woolf even keep? I am opting for the abridged version!). This should keep me plenty busy. Now where to start? Actually I have been reading a few essays, and I think some of her shorter writings would be good as well. As for novels, I am not sure, but I have been leaning heavily towards The Voyage Out. It is hard to know how to approach Virginia Woolf, but I don't want to jump right into her experimental stuff. Better to start out slow I think.