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Woolf 2015

December 29, 2015 by Drew

WOOLF 2015 editions: Penguin Hardback Modern Classics Mrs. Dalloway – 5+ out of 5, 3/2-3/9 To the Lighthouse – 4.5 out of 5, 5/17-5/24 The Waves – 3.5 out of 5, 9/5-9/20 A Room of One’s Own / Three Guineas – 4 out of 5, 10/30-11/13 Orlando – 3.5 out of 5, 12/5-12/10 For the first time, I’ve hit an author in the Ten Year Catch-Up whose major works I have at least a passing familiarity with – and, for […]

Categories: Features, The Ten Year Catch-Up • Tags: A Room of One's Own, Features, Fiction, Modernism, Mrs. Dalloway, Non-Fiction, Orlando, Recap, Stream of Consciousness, The Ten Year Catch-Up, The Waves, Three Guineas, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, Woolf 2015, World War One

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Orlando

December 16, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: A young boy of beauty and grace is born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. But his life is not to be ordinary and will instead last for centuries – and he will, one morning, awake to find that he is now she and a whole new swath of life’s adventures have been opened. The Review: Virginia Woolf doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who’d write a fairy tale, but this comes surprisingly close. I […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Classics, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Gender, History, Literature, Magic, Orlando, Reviews, Virginia Woolf, Woolf 2015

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A Room of One’s Own / Three Guineas

November 18, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Two essays of feminism and women’s rights – one is perhaps Woolf’s most famous non-fiction piece and one of the crucial texts in the fight for equality, while the second is lesser-known and far more complex, tackling everything from equality to militarism (all under the context of the patriarchy). The Review: After the rather bracing experience of The Waves, it was nice to return to Woolf and find her (in these texts) at her most plain-spoken. This is […]

Categories: Essays, Non-Fiction • Tags: A Room of One's Own, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Essays, Feminism, Non-Fiction, Politics, Reviews, Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf, Woolf 2015

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The Waves

September 25, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: A series of soliloquies or internal monologues, delivered nearly uninterrupted, across the lives of six acquaintances – three men, three women – from their childhood until their old age. The only intervals are a series of short vignettes detailing a coastal scene from early dawn to nightfall. The Review: I’ll be forthcoming and admit that this book nearly threatened the sanctity of the Ten Year Catch-Up project. Partially because, even though I’d had a very agreeable time with To the Lighthouse and […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Classics, Experimental, Fiction, Literature, Reading, Reviews, Stream of Consciousness, The Ten Year Catch-Up, The Waves, Virginia Woolf, Woolf 2015

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To the Lighthouse

May 28, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: The Ramsay Family and their guests are summering on the Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1910. Over the course of an ordinary day, rather ordinary things happen – but time swiftly passes and, ten years later, so very much has changed (while yet so much remains so similar). The Review: There is a certain amount of work that goes into reading Virginia Woolf. I noticed it, to some extent, with Mrs. Dalloway but To the Lighthouse is a more […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, England, Fiction, Literature, Modernism, Reviews, Scotland, The Ten Year Catch-Up, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, Woolf 2015, World War I

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Mrs. Dalloway

March 16, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: On a June day in the 1920s in London, Clarissa Dalloway is throwing a party.  From the morning to the evening, we follow her and several others about London through what is an ordinary – and completely extraordinary – day. The Review: For the first time, I’ve re-read something that I’ve already reviewed on this blog.  Mrs. Dalloway was one of the first books I read and reviewed here, way back in fall 2009.  This gives me a […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Literature, London, Modernism, Mrs. Dalloway, Re-Reads, Reviews, The Ten Year Catch-Up, Virginia Woolf, Woolf 2015

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Mrs. Dalloway

November 22, 2009 by Drew

“For there she was.” Maybe because of the helter-skelter pace of this book and the way it ricochets from character to character, this ending had so much power.  Literally, I felt a jolt of energy as I read that line.  The book, the story, just clicks shut.  As though suddenly the lights went out or the door slammed shut. It was a complicated book, overall. I haven’t had to devote such energy to every single word of a novel in […]

Categories: Cannonball Read II, Fiction, Literary Challenges, Literature • Tags: Book #4, Cannonball Read II, Fiction, Literature, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

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