elenatejeda's review against another edition
5.0
Un libro magnífico, la forma en que Viginia Wolf termina de escribirlo es brutal, maravillosa.
svejeok's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.75
lonestarwords's review against another edition
4.0
She should have had a microscope put in her hand; she should have been taught to look at the stars and reason scientifically...no one checked her, no one taught her...
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
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My 2023 reading falls into lots of categories and one of them is the year of Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway in January, and both To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own in November.
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I have the @novelpairingspod to thank for the nudge to revisit the latter two. As I said in my recent review of TTL, I really struggled with that one, but did feel a sense of accomplishment having tackled it - that odd, readerly satisfaction that even when we don’t love a book, we are happy to have the box checked.
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A Room of One's Own was far and away my favorite experience with Woolf, probably because it is non-fiction and so much more accessible, based on two of Woolf's lectures to women's colleges in England in 1928.
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When Tuesday's Novel Pairings podcast came up on my feed, I realized that I'd only ever been exposed to excerpts of these speeches in school, so I downloaded the entire audiobook. This was without a doubt the best way to absorb Woolf's commentary on why women need access to their own resources (money, and a room of their own) in order to produce fiction. Hearing it read was the way it was intended to be absorbed was ideal.
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Whereas I find Woolf's fiction to be somewhat inaccessible and hard to decipher, this piece of nonfiction is anything but -- Woolf is blunt, biting and often funny; she leaves nothing to the imagination and she speaks the truth. She knows far too well the injustices women suffer and discusses them openly and frankly. Of course Woolf was (even as a woman) extremely privileged for her time, but she makes valid arguments.
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My favorite sections are Woolf’s lauding of literary women who blazed the path for the next generations...Austen, Eliot and Bronte. Her remarks about the founding women of British literature were, IMO, the best part of both speeches.
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Juliet Stevenson read the audio that I found and it was easy to breeze through, and I'm glad I now have this entirely under my belt.
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
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My 2023 reading falls into lots of categories and one of them is the year of Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway in January, and both To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own in November.
•
I have the @novelpairingspod to thank for the nudge to revisit the latter two. As I said in my recent review of TTL, I really struggled with that one, but did feel a sense of accomplishment having tackled it - that odd, readerly satisfaction that even when we don’t love a book, we are happy to have the box checked.
•
A Room of One's Own was far and away my favorite experience with Woolf, probably because it is non-fiction and so much more accessible, based on two of Woolf's lectures to women's colleges in England in 1928.
•
When Tuesday's Novel Pairings podcast came up on my feed, I realized that I'd only ever been exposed to excerpts of these speeches in school, so I downloaded the entire audiobook. This was without a doubt the best way to absorb Woolf's commentary on why women need access to their own resources (money, and a room of their own) in order to produce fiction. Hearing it read was the way it was intended to be absorbed was ideal.
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Whereas I find Woolf's fiction to be somewhat inaccessible and hard to decipher, this piece of nonfiction is anything but -- Woolf is blunt, biting and often funny; she leaves nothing to the imagination and she speaks the truth. She knows far too well the injustices women suffer and discusses them openly and frankly. Of course Woolf was (even as a woman) extremely privileged for her time, but she makes valid arguments.
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My favorite sections are Woolf’s lauding of literary women who blazed the path for the next generations...Austen, Eliot and Bronte. Her remarks about the founding women of British literature were, IMO, the best part of both speeches.
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Juliet Stevenson read the audio that I found and it was easy to breeze through, and I'm glad I now have this entirely under my belt.
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bookaddict_04's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5