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Started 1/3/22, last read 3/1/22, got through ~40% of it
This was a Book Club book, but first I wasn't going to make it to that particular meeting (I had intended to read the book anyway) and then Book Club fizzled out.
I love Virginia Woolf's other work that I've read, like Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own (I think about the latter a LOT), but this one was a bit different and very dry, I thought. But it's still by my bed, I'm still pretending I'll get back to it someday.
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This was a Book Club book, but first I wasn't going to make it to that particular meeting (I had intended to read the book anyway) and then Book Club fizzled out.
I love Virginia Woolf's other work that I've read, like Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own (I think about the latter a LOT), but this one was a bit different and very dry, I thought. But it's still by my bed, I'm still pretending I'll get back to it someday.
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I remember reading a study a number of years ago where they asked school children to imagine a day in the life of the opposite se. Boys were to imagine what a girl’s day would be like and vice-versa. The girls ended up being very adept at imagining a boy’s life. However, the boys were terrible, mocking often, or refusing to participate at all. When in a position of power, one doesn’t immediately worry or imagine what someone else will do. It’s only when the advantage is taken away is it ever rea
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Pretty language, an interesting central character, but the end left me scratching my head. Given that the book spans almost 400 years, I *think* Woolf is adjusting her style to reflect the primary modes and preoccupations of each of the eras in which the book occurs, ending on a very impressionistic note. However, I wasn't paying very close attention to the style/era connection until the end, so I am not entirely sure. In any event, the prose is lovely, there is a fair amount of humorous satire,
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Jun 10, 2014
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