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  <title><![CDATA[A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf]]></title>
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  <default_description>An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.&lt;br&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1953</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm only about halfway through right now, and there are a number of tedious parts and some repeats but it's interesting to see how hard on herself she was and how modern in her thinking. She is very unsentimental which I like, and some of her insights and depressions related to being an artist (with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26971099">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't really know much about the relationship between Leonard and Virginia Woolf, but this book was lovingly edited. Excerpted from her unabridged diaries, Leonard Woolf culled the bits that he thought to be most about writing--the process, exercises, etc. These entries detail her exhaustive writi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54221964">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu May 21 17:48:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf has always fascinated me. I have read a great deal about the Bloombury Group and envied the literary circle they lived in. <br/><br/>Her husband put this book together after she died and it is a testament not only to her writing and creative process, but also of the mental battle th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56903715">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find reading Virginia Woolf's fiction akin to pleasant narcotic - a sort of dulling novacaine for the mind. The diaries have bits like that, but are studded with sharp, spiky fragments of observation. Quite wonderful, and a window into her terribly relentless drive and process.]]></body>
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    <review id="68297215">
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 20 22:49:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Woolf's obsessive control in writing, evidenced by her tight editing, resulted in many masterful  accomplishments.  But her diary, where she records the process rather than the result is perhaps her most genius and generous piece.  This book lends itself to numerous re-readings.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="39928281">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[get inside the mind of Virginia Woolf? Yes, please.]]></body>
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    <review id="39430832">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me about a year to finish reading this. Diaries of people I don't know are just not that fascinating.  It is a good collection though.  I put it down several times only to come back to it between other books.  There are real gems in there, but there is a lot of detail about having tea with d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39430832">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf (2003)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf (2003)]]></body>
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    <review id="26798909">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Those interested in modernist period writers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 09 17:07:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 09 17:10:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this book gives a fair overview of Woolf's writing process &amp; how her mind worked, it fails to show the reader her thoughts on her world &amp; her own struggles. Having now read this book &amp; the four-volume set of her diaries, I would recommend the full set of her diaries for anyone interested in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26798909">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39420141">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Woolf's husband did a great job selecting entries with a direct bearing on her feelings about literature and writing - much dropping of names that meant little or nothing to me, so I'm glad I read this one, rather than tackling a volume of her actual journals.]]></body>
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    <review id="27889314">
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 21 15:14:47 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's an actual diary that feels as close as a fictional one.]]></body>
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    <review id="7758432">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The end is amazing and sad, as the war is starting again...]]></body>
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    <review id="269314">
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    <body><![CDATA[in this book you can really know who virijinia wolf was.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="16114171">
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    <body><![CDATA[vivid and amazing. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[excellent]]></body>
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