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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
@mrs.dalloway PLS invite me to ur next party queen !!
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Really good novel that gave an interesting perspective into the mindset of after WWII.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Perfect quad book.
Virginia Woolf's prose is perfectly conducive to reading the same one page, which for Woolf is one sentence, over and over, conjure the image of a record skipping, Piccioni's Amore mio Aiutami, or maybe Grieg, while your brain cells sizzle from the unexpected sun exposure of this occasional 70 degree afternoon, in February, in Illinois, because climate change is getting a little harder to ignore, and pretend you're not eavesdropping on your neighbors accidentally sitting on goose shit, and trying to block out the assholes blasting the song that goes "SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS", and worrying that you might also be laying on goose shit. And by the end of the sentence, you forgot how you started, so you have to reread this paragraph.
Virginia Woolf's prose is perfectly conducive to reading the same one page, which for Woolf is one sentence, over and over, conjure the image of a record skipping, Piccioni's Amore mio Aiutami, or maybe Grieg, while your brain cells sizzle from the unexpected sun exposure of this occasional 70 degree afternoon, in February, in Illinois, because climate change is getting a little harder to ignore, and pretend you're not eavesdropping on your neighbors accidentally sitting on goose shit, and trying to block out the assholes blasting the song that goes "SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS", and worrying that you might also be laying on goose shit. And by the end of the sentence, you forgot how you started, so you have to reread this paragraph.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Another audiobook!
Virginia Woolf has a very, very intimate and original style of writing. We are invited to embody her characters' inner monologues in the same way we carry our own. Listening honestly added another layer to this, as having her musing coming through my headphones really thinned the line between her writing and my own thoughts
As far as the actual subject matter of the book: I don't typically get excited over novels that try to dive into the lives of aristocrats. Thankfully, enough of Mrs. Dalloway was about life, love and its setbacks that it kept my interest. The talk of gender and the role of women in the novel especially kept the story from becoming a log of whining aristocrats.
I will say, however, that there was a lot of
existential ideas in the book that the medium of an audibook does not really lend itself to; it might've been nice to be able to slow down and pick through these more.
Overall, very nice read by an exceptional author.
"Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?"
Virginia Woolf has a very, very intimate and original style of writing. We are invited to embody her characters' inner monologues in the same way we carry our own. Listening honestly added another layer to this, as having her musing coming through my headphones really thinned the line between her writing and my own thoughts
As far as the actual subject matter of the book: I don't typically get excited over novels that try to dive into the lives of aristocrats. Thankfully, enough of Mrs. Dalloway was about life, love and its setbacks that it kept my interest. The talk of gender and the role of women in the novel especially kept the story from becoming a log of whining aristocrats.
I will say, however, that there was a lot of
existential ideas in the book that the medium of an audibook does not really lend itself to; it might've been nice to be able to slow down and pick through these more.
Overall, very nice read by an exceptional author.
"Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?"
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No