From the Bookshelf of The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge…

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

Start date: February 1, 2018

Finish date: March 31, 2018

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Mar 16, 2018 Ms. B rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, fiction, nonfiction, adult, 2018

This books makes the argument that if one wants to become a writer (or an artist of any sort for that matter), a steady, fixed income (seems Virginia is writing for the upper middle and upper classes) and solitude (in other words a room of one's own away from the daily interruptions of life) are needed.
My favorite quote was, "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." ...more

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Dec 29, 2016 Mary Bronson rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction-i-have-read, feminism, women-non-fiction, classics, women-reads-2016, short-stories

I thought this was an interesting book. I thought it might be a short read, but with this book it makes you think. So it took me a bit longer to read. Some of it was slow, but it picked up towards the middle and end. I still want to read more on Virginia Woolf to see what her fiction is like to read.

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