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What a brilliant book.
I read part of this in a cafe, and a fellow coffee-drinker asked me what my book was, and then proceeded to ask me what it was about. In one way, this isn't really a book about anything, in the sense that there's not a great deal of plot. Very little happens in this novel: people go for walks; they eat dinner; they sit in boats or suchlike. It's run-of-the-mill days in a run-of-the-mill world. There are no action scenes, no suspense, none of the usual events that drive a n ...more
I read part of this in a cafe, and a fellow coffee-drinker asked me what my book was, and then proceeded to ask me what it was about. In one way, this isn't really a book about anything, in the sense that there's not a great deal of plot. Very little happens in this novel: people go for walks; they eat dinner; they sit in boats or suchlike. It's run-of-the-mill days in a run-of-the-mill world. There are no action scenes, no suspense, none of the usual events that drive a n ...more
This is another book that I find it hard to explain why I love it so much. On top of that, this book is a prime example of the difference between "fiction" and "literature" in my mind, with this book being solidly Literature.
I think Woolf perfectly encapsulates the internal human experience, and particularly the internal female experience, in a way that is rarely matched. Woolf puts words to feelings, thoughts, experiences that aren't found anywhere else, but once I've read them, I am keenly and ...more
I think Woolf perfectly encapsulates the internal human experience, and particularly the internal female experience, in a way that is rarely matched. Woolf puts words to feelings, thoughts, experiences that aren't found anywhere else, but once I've read them, I am keenly and ...more
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