This book can be hard going. It's like a really rich piece of food - you have to take it in small chunks. However, it's a really rewarding reading experience. The language is beautiful and Woolf captures the characters in such minute detail that you have a complete picture of who they actually ar...
This book can be hard going. It's like a really rich piece of food - you have to take it in small chunks. However, it's a really rewarding reading experience. The language is beautiful and Woolf captures the characters in such minute detail that you have a complete picture of who they actually ar...
It took a while for me to get into Mrs. Dalloway, around twenty or so pages. It's not easy reading but once you get used to Woolf's indirect interior monologue/ stream of consciousness technique/ fragmented reality it really is an enjoyable and profound read. There's lots of advice and insight here,...
OMG I loved it! The writing was amazing and Joss and Dylan were awesome. Even if it's nothing new and even if it's short - I loved it :) Can't wait to read the sequel :)
So many of the reviews for 'Mrs. Dalloway' are about walking, about absorbing in little pieces, of putting the book down for days on end. Impossible.I delayed as much as I could, reading a few pages, and then doing the dishes, reading some more, and then making another pot of coffee, but I just coul...
This is a fascinating novel. At first it appears that she is just jumping into the head of each new person (which would have been a - cough - novel approach) but eventually the method appears amongst the madness. Woolf's ability to make believable the inner thoughts of multiple characters is quite...
I thought this was a masterpiece of character, of social study and of style. It hurts me that it was made into a movie, because it was bound to fail. In fact years ago I saw part of the movie on tv and turned it off, thinking ‘if that’s Mrs. Dalloway, I’ll never read it.’ Because without the languag...
Cross-posted on Soapboxing.net This is a hard book to write about, for me. I read this on planes, and not on foot, in hard tubes that bolt up into the blue and down again into the strange sameness of airports; surrounded by strangers and boredom; trying to mask my weeping, coughing back my laughte...
I’m so glad my Virginia Woolf cherry has popped. It was starting to become shameful. During conversations, upon hearing that I didn’t have a fave VW novel and that in fact I’d never read her, my friends would react with shock—SHOCK I tell you—and then a kind of embarrassed-for-asking dismay. Me, ...
Perhaps being a visual learner/thinker is just shorthand for being an aural idiot, but Ansel Adams' photograph captures how I see Mrs. Dalloway: When I was reading the book, I kept thinking of splintered glass. What Virginia Woolf does so deftly here is move you from the mind of one character into...
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