false 18839 84 In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon. 6057225 book 1928 Orlando total:4806|5:1466|4:1625|3:1211|2:385|1:119| 4806 18352 6971 417 3 8 true false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 11:24:09 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 20:55:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 30 11:48:54 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 18 06:58:20 -0800 2009 Sobre el amor, y el sexo, y la identidad sexual de Orlan...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 08 05:43:02 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 31 09:43:52 -0800 2009 My fave Orlandos were the boy in love with the Russian Princess ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed May 21 10:10:26 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 09:16:27 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 10:10:26 -0700 2008
I just couldn't plow through it. There are too many other books calling my name like ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 11:52:59 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 09:57:31 -0800 2007 This book is my penance.
So far I'm finding her language irritating to say the least but will reserve judgment until the end. ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 11 22:18:50 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 22:43:59 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 22:43:59 -0700 2007 Orlando--simply and intoxicatingly brilliant, playful, and poetic! Written with the cheeky humor reminiscent of Chaucer and his The Canterbury Tales and diving into something akin to a Monty Python skit, Woolf's "biography" tells the story of a young,...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 09 06:57:40 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 02 09:01:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 25 07:51:38 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 08:04:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 16 07:34:23 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 07:34:23 -0700 2009
Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that.

But Time, unfortunat...more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 14:46:58 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 20:12:09 -0700 2009
Well, the book was confusing. Orlando is about a young boy in the 1600's who the Queen has taken a liking to. Adorned with riches, a castle, and endless money, Orlando...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 17:03:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 10:50:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 05:56:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 05:58:10 -0700 2009
He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom, were not half so arduous as this which he now undertook to win immortality against the English language. Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of c...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 19 18:23:53 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 09:35:48 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 18:23:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 1973 Thu Oct 08 15:07:22 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 15:14:18 -0700 2009 10
Woolf herself once famously commented on this, believing as she did that it was impossible for a writer to s...more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 18:36:26 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 20:34:22 -0700 2009
What a neat book! I was sucked in immediately and the whitewater-flow this story is carried on never slowed and never diminished in its purpose to evolve this character, Orlando.

I felt this story was dreamlike and I sometimes became confused and even disappointed with the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 17:32:15 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:43:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 18 10:27:37 -0800 2007 Tue May 27 10:28:59 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 13:14:45 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:04:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:34:46 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:37:30 -0700 2009
one thing, though -- I was more interested ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 20 12:10:38 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 12:16:36 -0700 2009 more...]]>