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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
4.5. So many great phrases/moments in this - I love the idea of someone not being able to see the full version of themselves without someone else to see ‘that spot the size of a shilling at the back of the head’.
informative
inspiring
reflective
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Still hits- need to buy and annotate a copy physical copy
When Virginia Woolf talks about gender and literature? *chef's kiss*
When Virginia Woolf talks about class? Oof.
When Virginia Woolf talks about class? Oof.
Rereading this is even better than reading it for the first time because it's just making me more aware of how spectacular of a writer Woolf is.
challenging
funny
inspiring
slow-paced
just meh. i’m sure that this was revolutionary for the time but it was a drag to read. very privileged take too.
3 1/2 stars, really. I found portions of A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN resonant and insightful, such as Woolf's lament that women lack their own writing tradition to draw from, and the ending was hopeful and inspiring and substantive. However, I found Woolf's aesthetic judgments obnoxious and was particularly frustrated by her 30-page tirade on the relative merits and failings of JANE EYRE compared with PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (see also: her insistence that Austen possessed "less genius" than Charlotte Bronte). It is that, more than anything, that sticks with me from this book a week later. That's disappointing, because there are real insights in this book, and it is written with Woolf's characteristically beautiful prose.