First let me say that I cheated a bit and listened to this 27 hour audiobook and that part was a mistake. It made the divisions in the story more difficult to understand and I ended up going back and getting the ebook to make sense of it afterword. The book hit me much like Madame Bovary did back wh...
2016 Book Club Read for Sept.It took me three tries to make it though this book. Three times. This third time, I don't know what it was but after about 50 pages, I just didn't want to put the book down. This is slightly strange because the people are largely unlikable.The novel has a frame story, an...
It took me a long time to finish this book, and truthfully, in the middle of a busy time at work, it was overambitious for me to attempt it. It's not a novel in any true sense of the word, and quite honestly, I had no idea what sort of book I was getting into when I began The Golden Notebook. I'm no...
I kept postponing writing this review because I had no idea where to start. I hoped reading other reviews and another book might have helped me. It didn’t. I’m falling back on the technique of telling that I had no idea how to start the review and feminism. I, too, wish I had a more original approac...
*****WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE*****“I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkenness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of...
“I see I am falling into the self-punishing, cynical tone again. Yet how comforting this tone is, like a sort of poultice on a wound.” — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook This big book is well worth the effort. Having started my foray into Lessing’s work through her non-fiction, I was curious how h...
As a whole I like it a lot. It's the kind of liking that is not a happy fluffy feeling but intense concentrating type. I was being haunted during reading & bitterly regret the times I couldn't spend reading. Unfortunately 4/5 part to the end I was just too tired by the effort & had to resort to skim...
I hesitate to rate this because I had such mixed feelings about it. As I often do, I read the reviews of the book before reading it, and immediately thought that it sounded very 'difficult' and 'clever', and upon reading the preface ,I was not reassured, but I ploughed on and made it to the end. Unf...
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