@Karen ah yeah that’s the only reason I read it. I wouldn’t be my first choice in books. The hardest thing for me was understanding who was saying/thinking what! Try sparknotes…I’m sure they have this on there
I read it the first time in my teens, and was too young, and didn’t have much frame of reference for who she is, her place in literature etc. I read it later again in my late 20’s, and appreciated the free form and stream of consciousness type of influence. A lot of it felt like a dream. But I liked her more direct style in A Room of One’s Own, and found it way more accessible.
Ill add also, that i remember being drawn to it because the book honors her mother and her mother’s death and its impact in her world. My mother died when i was a child also. It was groundbreaking to have a book by a woman author about a profound loss of her mother, and it’s in the literary canon! But the first time around, I was really disappointed that i couldn’t follow it well because of that. I longed for a story i could identify with, but my generation and culture are so different from Woolf’s, I didn’t really get what I’d hoped.
I have. Fairly dull imo though undoubtedly “significant”
Didn’t like it! The writing style is awful in my opinion
I am having trouble with. I have to read it for my Brit Lit class. and I can’t seem to get into it.
@Karen ah yeah that’s the only reason I read it. I wouldn’t be my first choice in books. The hardest thing for me was understanding who was saying/thinking what! Try sparknotes…I’m sure they have this on there
Thank you!
I read it the first time in my teens, and was too young, and didn’t have much frame of reference for who she is, her place in literature etc. I read it later again in my late 20’s, and appreciated the free form and stream of consciousness type of influence. A lot of it felt like a dream. But I liked her more direct style in A Room of One’s Own, and found it way more accessible.
Ill add also, that i remember being drawn to it because the book honors her mother and her mother’s death and its impact in her world. My mother died when i was a child also. It was groundbreaking to have a book by a woman author about a profound loss of her mother, and it’s in the literary canon! But the first time around, I was really disappointed that i couldn’t follow it well because of that. I longed for a story i could identify with, but my generation and culture are so different from Woolf’s, I didn’t really get what I’d hoped.
I tried and didn’t get very far, but I’ve always wanted to try it again. I preferred A Room of One’s Own
I liked it a lot compared with some of Woolf’s other fiction.
Really prefer her nonfiction and essays.
I just got it from library.
Yes, it’s a very good book.