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bookishalice28 's review for:
The Waves
by Virginia Woolf
Who would’ve thought that I’d think positively about a Virginia Woolf book? I am not in love…yet…but my faith has been restored.
After *painfully* attempting (and failing) to read Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, I dreaded starting The Waves. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the characters, who carried this book for me. Although slightly worried about how much I enjoyed reading Neville (who multiple lecturers have called ‘snobbish’), I always found myself looking forward to his passages in particular.
This speech/thought version of Modernist stream of consciousness was so much more fluid to me than the action/feeling narrative of Mrs Dalloway. I think partly I always knew I was never going to understand The Waves, so didn’t bother. I have never enjoyed such complete confusion in a book before. For this reason, it is highly unlikely that I will be writing an essay on it for a long time at least. However, I feel like I will return to reading The Waves over the years. The transition of life plot makes it a relatable companion at every age, I hope.
My next Virginia Woolf will be Orlando, and I aim to keep up this positivity getting into that one.
After *painfully* attempting (and failing) to read Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, I dreaded starting The Waves. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the characters, who carried this book for me. Although slightly worried about how much I enjoyed reading Neville (who multiple lecturers have called ‘snobbish’), I always found myself looking forward to his passages in particular.
This speech/thought version of Modernist stream of consciousness was so much more fluid to me than the action/feeling narrative of Mrs Dalloway. I think partly I always knew I was never going to understand The Waves, so didn’t bother. I have never enjoyed such complete confusion in a book before. For this reason, it is highly unlikely that I will be writing an essay on it for a long time at least. However, I feel like I will return to reading The Waves over the years. The transition of life plot makes it a relatable companion at every age, I hope.
My next Virginia Woolf will be Orlando, and I aim to keep up this positivity getting into that one.