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I really wish that I read this book while in school because I think I would have enjoyed it much more that way. http://youtu.be/UJmUbD2rkFI
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I re-read this as my selection for one of my book clubs. For some reason I was putting off reading it, and I really wish I hadn't. I had forgotten how beautiful the language is. The story follows a day in the life of Mrs Dalloway - she is giving a party that night.
This book is not for everyone, for two reasons. First, in terms of things happening, there's not much. Second, Woolf wrote this in a stream of consciousness style (no breaks or chapters, etc), which some folks don't like.
If you aren' ...more
This book is not for everyone, for two reasons. First, in terms of things happening, there's not much. Second, Woolf wrote this in a stream of consciousness style (no breaks or chapters, etc), which some folks don't like.
If you aren' ...more
Update: read this again with a better understanding of what Woolf was doing, so enjoyed it more. Issues of time, love, aging, status, and what becomes of manic pixie dream girls, but as a sort of stream of omniscient consciousness that can jump from person to person across the city...
Original review: Feel like I need to be paying closer attention to this book. As an audiobook, I feel like the words are drifting past me and I'm not listening closely enough.
Strangest part is to read a book that pu ...more
Original review: Feel like I need to be paying closer attention to this book. As an audiobook, I feel like the words are drifting past me and I'm not listening closely enough.
Strangest part is to read a book that pu ...more
Mar 09, 2013
Booktart
marked it as to-read
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twentieth-century
Nov 11, 2014
Tara
rated it
it was amazing
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