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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Start date: June 1, 2017

Finish date: June 30, 2017

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Aug 17, 2017 Becki Iverson rated it liked it

I've noticed something odd about Virginia Woolf novels: while I know that I love her writing (especially A Room of One's Own) and that she's a brilliant author, I seem to be underwhelmed by her novels. I'm not sure why that is... I think maybe they need to be read more than once and somewhat absorbed in order to really sink in.

The thing that struck me most about Mrs. Dalloway was it's style, which seems like an intense mashup of Jane Austen meets James Joyce. I struggled with it early on but it ...more

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