Virginia Woolf once wrote in her famous feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) that “A female writer cannot afford to live her life too clearly. If she does, she will write in a rage when she should write calmly. She will write in a rage when she should write wisely. She will write… Poursuivre la lecture 20/03/2014 – I am my own character, meditation on Virginia Woolf’s A Room of one’s own
Catégorie : To hide when the morning comes
04/03/2023 – « Never a frown, with golden brown »
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? If I were to write my autobiography, The Strangler’s « Golden Brown » sweet refrain would immediately come to my mind as an opening sentence. I am of Mediterranean Spanish decent and my skin turns golden in the summer. My dad’s all year. We never argue, and I never… Poursuivre la lecture 04/03/2023 – « Never a frown, with golden brown »
03/03/2023 – On owning books (or not)
I should be sleeping instead of sitting on the toilet writing this but, reflecting on how satisfying today’s date is and given it’s 3am, I am really glad I didn’t listen to reasonable me (for now). I was thinking about something. Well, I was reading a book (Autumn by Ali Smith, which is a really good… Poursuivre la lecture 03/03/2023 – On owning books (or not)