'but I have my ups and downs': virginia woolf, a writer's diary

Nearing the halfway point of my current book last week, I happened to pick up my copy of A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf, which I hadn't opened for quite a few years. I read half a page and was instantly immersed. I ended up reading it cover to cover. It's an immediate book, put together out of the raw material of Woolf's personal diaries, which she wrote rapidly and with an honesty which is sometimes painful to read even almost a century later. As she put it herself in the last entry for...