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[Book Quote Tuesday] The Utility of “Oily Somnolence”

"The Waves" by Virginia Woolf.

Myra here.

It is that time of the week again where we share a book quote that seemed particularly striking for us.

Welcome to March! Since it is Women’s Month, we will be sharing book quotes by female novelists.

I have yet to read any novel by Virginia Woolf, and The Waves (Amazon | Book Depository) seems a good place as any to begin. I like the idea of the lake of one’s mind and the usefulness of what she refers to as “oily somnolence.” I wonder how that worked out for her.

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Myra is a Teacher Educator and a registered clinical psychologist based in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she lived for eleven years in Singapore serving as a teacher educator. She has edited five books on rediscovering children’s literature in Asia (with a focus on the Philippines, Malaysia, India, China, Japan) as part of the proceedings for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content where she served as the Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference from 2011 until 2019. While she is an academic by day, she is a closet poet and a book hunter at heart. When she is not reading or writing about books or planning her next reads, she is hoping desperately to smash that shuttlecock to smithereens because Badminton Is Life (still looking for badminton courts here at UAE - suggestions are most welcome).

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