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A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
4.0
"I am surprised and a little disquieted by the remorseless severity of my mind: that it never stops reading and writing . . ."
This book is hard to finish, because the end of the diary is the end of Woolf's life. And she still had so many things she wanted to write. But at the end you feel this numbness in her, how she wanted to write with nuance and delicacy and was stuck in a raw, catastrophic war.
Also: astonishing to read how many articles were rejected and how much anxiety Woolf had over publishing her best books.
This book is hard to finish, because the end of the diary is the end of Woolf's life. And she still had so many things she wanted to write. But at the end you feel this numbness in her, how she wanted to write with nuance and delicacy and was stuck in a raw, catastrophic war.
Also: astonishing to read how many articles were rejected and how much anxiety Woolf had over publishing her best books.