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A review by femaletor
A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
3.0
A diary is very hard to rate, but I have rated it out of my enjoyment of the book only!
A diary is very personal and it says a lot about a person. Personally I struggled to get through this book - it just didn't catch my full attention (which made me spend a year and a half on this book) and even made me skim the last 100 pages.
Virginia Woolf struggled writing as a woman but more as a person with depression. It was completely exciting to read her thoughts and see her development on the books, she wrote.
Woolf was one stubborn woman - that is the (almost) most clear fact about her in this book. As she states in her diary, she doesn't want to have the praise and (now-a-days-called) fame and she made sure not to. She did get very excited about the good words about her book, but those words were mostly from dear friends or her husband.
Another beautiful aspect of this same quote from her diary, she writes that she has found her way to say something in her own voice. I think most of us youngsters are looking to find the right education and goals in life to say what we want in our own voice - may it not be in writing but in other ways to express ourselves and our most important thought in our own lives. Virginia Woolf found it at 40.
A diary is very personal and it says a lot about a person. Personally I struggled to get through this book - it just didn't catch my full attention (which made me spend a year and a half on this book) and even made me skim the last 100 pages.
Virginia Woolf struggled writing as a woman but more as a person with depression. It was completely exciting to read her thoughts and see her development on the books, she wrote.
There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.
Woolf was one stubborn woman - that is the (almost) most clear fact about her in this book. As she states in her diary, she doesn't want to have the praise and (now-a-days-called) fame and she made sure not to. She did get very excited about the good words about her book, but those words were mostly from dear friends or her husband.
Another beautiful aspect of this same quote from her diary, she writes that she has found her way to say something in her own voice. I think most of us youngsters are looking to find the right education and goals in life to say what we want in our own voice - may it not be in writing but in other ways to express ourselves and our most important thought in our own lives. Virginia Woolf found it at 40.