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I'm glad I read this without watching the movie first, and with little to no familiarity with Virginia Woolf's work, because there were no spoilers for me. While it's definitely not a happy read (it's one of those books that gives me that claustrophobic, crushed by the mundanity of life, feeling), I enjoyed the writing. The loooong sentences that tried to capture every aspect of a place (sights, sounds, smells), a person (their demeanor, their thoughts, their past, their future), a concept (find
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Although I saw the movie first, I still really enjoyed the book. The writing is beautiful and evocative and the characters are well formed. It made me want to run out and read Mrs. Dalloway.
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