by Virginia Woolf, Rachel Wetzsteon
sort of dragged through the middle there, but the ending really picked up. I liked Katherine and Mary both.
bookshelves: summer-2015, radio-4x, published-1919, lit-richer, london, britain-england, norfolk, love, play-dramatisation Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read on August 19, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076...Description: Set in London before Wor...
Love it; need to organise my thoughts. It seems curiously broken - first 80% are completely different from the final 20% - but I loved the writing (this is the first novel by V.W. I've read, apart from Orlando).
I'm so thankful to be done with this novel. This was my audiobook choice for in the car, while doing housework, and that sort of thing, but I found my mind wandering to the point of putting myself in eminent danger on the road during some portions of this book. Everyone's in love. Nobody's in love. ...
Foreword, by Jeanette WintersonIntroduction, by Jo ShapcottIntroduction, by Angelica Garnett--Night and Day
This is Virginia Woolf unlike Virginia Woolf. I read this before any of her main works and it is really different; with perhaps more of an emphasis on plot. But still very good.
Nice book. Would probably read again.
This book seemed endless and it took me so long to read. I assume Woolf was attempting to write a story about finding your true love, rather than marrying who seems appropriate, and sticking it to traditional gender and class norms, yet Night and Day was a bore.Katherine was unlikable. I has thought...
I'm putting this back the TBR shelves; I am just in the wrong mood for it and keep having to reread pages three times to remember what's just happened.My initial impression is that this is formally more conservative not only than Woolf's later work but than her previous novel, [b:The Voyage Out|1489...
The book focuses on the British bourgeoisie with its specific stereotypes and the contrasting relationship between two friends. Of course the book is very introspective and the connections between the characters very complicated. Somehow I found this book to have similarities with Pride and Prejudic...
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