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Orlando

Virginia Woolf

3.84 AVERAGE

skilltoolow's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

biblioslut's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging funny slow-paced

BRB Off to watch the movie!

(As for the book…Virginia Woolf elegantly writes a trans tale with British dry humor and a sprinkle of magical realism. It’s pretty fab!)

booksfahan's review against another edition

5.0

A lot going on here, but I am positively obsessed with Woolf's care for the ordinary. The incredible affection and care for common things—the blue tint of a fly, a young man's fine calves, a home that is no longer yours—foreground the novel, the extraordinary and the immortal all afterthoughts to the celebration of the mundane and the mortal. Even the voice of 'a biography' is retuned and recalibrated for this purpose: the extraordinary is below mentioning; only the small pleasures are expounded, only the common features of Orlando's life ever clearly in view. Nothing else is relevant.

Woolf summarizes it better than I ever could: "when the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly." Beautiful prose. Can't wait to dive into Woolf's other works.