Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway (1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England.
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I am quitting this book for now as I am unable to devote the needed time to it. I plan to return to it this summer.
What I have read so far is good, but very complex and requires my full attention; something I cannot provide it at this time.
What I have read so far is good, but very complex and requires my full attention; something I cannot provide it at this time.
2023:
What witchcraft is this? My husband was right. I want to highlight every sentence. 5 stars.
"For having lived in Westminster—how many years now? over twenty—one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. "
Septimus is a veteran of the First World War:
“'Look, look, Septimus!' she cried. For Dr. Holmes had told her to make her husband (who had nothing whatsoever seriously the matter with him but was a little out of sorts) take an interest in things outside himself."
2017:
Even though I gave this 4 stars, I didn't actually enjoy this book. It just didn't work for me. My husband thinks I need to wait a few years and re-read it, but it was a bit painful. There are beautiful parts and interesting parts, but it wasn't all that interesting to me as a whole. I was reading to get through it.
It reads like someone imagining a story, or just thinking, going back and forth between a few characters without anything actually happening. It reads like a dream with a lot of medium-painful nostalgia and no action.
What witchcraft is this? My husband was right. I want to highlight every sentence. 5 stars.
"For having lived in Westminster—how many years now? over twenty—one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. "
Septimus is a veteran of the First World War:
“'Look, look, Septimus!' she cried. For Dr. Holmes had told her to make her husband (who had nothing whatsoever seriously the matter with him but was a little out of sorts) take an interest in things outside himself."
2017:
Even though I gave this 4 stars, I didn't actually enjoy this book. It just didn't work for me. My husband thinks I need to wait a few years and re-read it, but it was a bit painful. There are beautiful parts and interesting parts, but it wasn't all that interesting to me as a whole. I was reading to get through it.
It reads like someone imagining a story, or just thinking, going back and forth between a few characters without anything actually happening. It reads like a dream with a lot of medium-painful nostalgia and no action.
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