About Virginia Woolf

[CarolMS]

I just watched this fascinating video about Virginia Woolf and thought I'd share it, particularly because I know the book club is discussing her novel Mrs. Dalloway this week.

 

[Eva Ulian]

Sorry Carol but it's not available to watch in Italy. You'll have tell me about it at the book club.

 

[Hannah F]

Not available in Scotland either.

 

[Rich.]

Nor Spain

 

[CarolMS]

@Eva Ulian, @Hannah F, @Rich and everyone --
Oh, no! I had no idea some YouTube videos can't be played in some countries! What a bummer! Especially because this video was such a pleasure to watch. Dang.

 

[CarolMS]

@Eva Ulian @Hannah F @Rich. --
I think this is a way to access the video that works! It did when I tried it in Preview.

By clicking on the Persective icon in the upper left-hand corner of the first video I posted and then searching on that YouTube page for Perspective (which is apparently based in the UK) I came up with this different linik to try. I hope it works so you can all see the video. I'm including the link only because for some reason I couldn't just embed it as media. https://www.youtube.com/@PerspectiveArts/search?query=Virginia Woolf

 

[Rich.]

Nope, afraid not. I can see the Perspective channel on YouTube, but the Woolf video isn't there for me. I guess it's a rights thing.

 

[CarolMS]

Nope, afraid not. I can see the Perspective channel on YouTube, but the Woolf video isn't there for me. I guess it's a rights thing.

Well, that's truly a bummer. I suppose it is about rights. Too bad. Sorry you can't watch it.

 

[Peyton Stafford]

If it is a rights issues, the video may be available on a different platform outside the US. Bizarre it's not available in the UK.

 

[CarolMS]

If it is a rights issues, the video may be available on a different platform outside the US. Bizarre it's not available in the UK.

Interesting. It is bizarre it's not available in the UK, since it says it's based there. Weird. And frustrating. I really enjoyed the video and think others would, too.

 

[James Charles]

The curse of Virginia Wolf!

 

[Peyton Stafford]

Thank you for sharing. I read her books when I was a teen. Am rereading Dalloway. This helped.

 

[CarolMS]

Thank you for sharing. I read her books when I was a teen. Am rereading Dalloway. This helped.

I haven't read her books, but I've wanted to. I did get a copy from Amazon to read this week, but it's formatted with a ridiculously tiny font as well as very dense on the page (1/2 inch margins), and my eyes aren't what they used to be (macular degeneration and cataracts forming). I'm going to try to read it, or some of it, though, and hope to join the book club discussion this Saturday.

 

[Eva Ulian]

I've re-read Mrs Dalloway again last week- just for the occasion.

 

[Hannah F]

I've borrowed a copy from an English lecturer. It has a long introduction at the start which was really useful in distinguishing who's who. It's a short book but a slow read. I'm hoping to finish it in time. (I read it in my school days and, as I'm reading it now, realise I remembered none of it! (I don't think fifteen-year-old girlies was its target audience).

 

[MattScho]

I read both Mrs. Dalloway and the Mrs. Dalloway short story/Novella preparing for the book club, then had to miss it. However, the Streep movie is a bit of a take on Dalloway, or at least Woolf writing it at stages.
But no, the video is blocked in Germany, as well.
This is pretty normal, and with video it's always regional. Chrikey, I remember having to repurchase all of my favorite DVDs back in the days when they existed, because region 1 (North America) discs were blocked from playing on region 2 (europe) players, unless you bought bootleg, which weren't region specific, or learned how to hack your player (which was pretty easy, but back in the day you had to ask someone who knew how to do that)..