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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
hace años (¡casi 20 años!) leí este libro luego de ver la película, no recuerdo mi opinión al respecto. Este año lo revisité y lo encontré muy aburrido, un caso extraño donde siento que la película está mucho mejor como homenaje a La Sra. Dalloway y Virginia Woolf (que es lo que creo que intenta hacer el autor).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
I think the author is trying to tell us that the past and the future really are a lot like the present… that things don’t change as much as we tend to think they do. I think he’s trying to tell us that real life affects the contents of books, but also that books can alter or color or add understanding to our lives. I think the author wants us to realize that Virginia Wolf was a real person struggling with a real life while she was writing her famous novels, and that she had moments both good and bad. I think he wants to tell us what he has learned about Virginia Wolf’s novels, but also that it can’t be told out in a straightforward manner like an ordinary tale, and yet that is the only tool he has. I think the author wants us to think about how the tiny little everyday events of a single day can be so important, more important than we usually remember.. I think the author wants to play with madness. I think that the author is saying that throwing a party and preparing for a party and cancelling a party can be every bit as important as fighting a war or investigating a murder or destroying a plague of zombies. I think the author has included special messages for me in this book, telling me that I need to write the story that I know or it will sink, stonelike, to the bottom of the river and be lost for all time. I think Virginia Wolf possessed the author and compelled him to write with such intricate detail the events of a day, describing the moments and thoughts and images in the same intertwined beauty that one can see of multi-hued pasta freshly rinsed and relaxing in a colander above the sparkling steel of the kitchen sink. I think the author intended to use the letter ‘e’ more times in this work but found it difficult to do so while balancing his other concerns. I think he wanted me to read this book on this very day for some purpose I may never fully comprehend. I think the author captured something elusive, ghostly, and free in this net of firm little words and long straight lines of text, but even this thing this beast this creature this living introspection cannot and will not and nevermore shall be able to be or even compete with reality. I think the author wants us to remember that there is another hour that comes next, after this one, and then that one will also be succeeded by yet another, so that we can sometime feel we will be buried deeper and deeper with the coming hours, and that while some people enjoy, in fact, live for that constant build of sameness, for others it feels like being shoveled under and the struggle can become so much, too much, much too much, and keeps increasing. I think the author wants us to understand.
I LOVED this book! It took about fifty pages for me to actually get the flow of Cunningham's writing style, but once it picked up; I couldn't put it down. The complexity of each character and how they are interwoven with each other was brilliant. Having not seen the movie, I wish I could have predicted the ending, however; it caught me completely off guard. I HIGHLY recommend this book.
I have to start off by saying I've never read anything by Ms. Woolf. And from this book I'm tempted to read her biography. How hard of a life it must have been feeling and or needing to accomplish something as hard as writing a novel. To some authors I'm sure it's just an every day thing to crank the pages out, but to have to deal with your alter ego.....shew that's a mess.
I also must say that I think you must be of sound mind and a non-depressed person to read this book, because in some places it just got me down. Way down too. The hours are just passing us by. Seriously, I'm freaking 38 and can't tell you where the time has gone. Why is it as adults the time flies by but when we're children the phrase: It will take till Christmas to get here and that means a long time? When we as adults know it's around the corner? I'm glad I joined up for this ring and totally forgot about being on it.
Now off to the next person!
I also must say that I think you must be of sound mind and a non-depressed person to read this book, because in some places it just got me down. Way down too. The hours are just passing us by. Seriously, I'm freaking 38 and can't tell you where the time has gone. Why is it as adults the time flies by but when we're children the phrase: It will take till Christmas to get here and that means a long time? When we as adults know it's around the corner? I'm glad I joined up for this ring and totally forgot about being on it.
Now off to the next person!
I read this alongside Mrs. Dalloway and it is amazing. Cunningham is so creative creating 3 different characters within the book: the reader, the writer, and the actor. The plot follows Mrs. Dalloway. This ranks very high on my Top 10 list!
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Warning: This book contains suicide, terminal illness and depression, so it is not a cheerful romp. A Pulitzer Prize winner, this book concerns three women living in different times (the 1920s, 1940s and 2000s) linked by the book Mrs Dalloway. The story chops between characters, with each having their own story of desperate longing. The way Cunningham captures their inner life is powerful.