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bookish_bry's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Ableism and Suicide
allapaz's review against another edition
4.75
everyone is so petty, lovelorn, funny, and interesting. the flashes of crazy dark thoughts and the septimus storyline gave such a valuable weight to the time and place of this novel. truly transportive.
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Misogyny
kers_tin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, War, and Classism
Moderate: Gun violence and Grief
nannahnannah's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Mrs. Dalloway is a book that's more of an experiment in stream of consciousness than anything written in prose or poetry style. It made reading and enjoying this novel difficult, to say the least. Yeah, I can be impressed by Virginia Woolf's skill as a writer, but it ends there. Reading this was a challenge I don't ever want to attempt again. After finishing the last page, there was no satisfaction, no particular feeling of conclusion, etc.
What's it about? Honestly . . . much of nothing. You as a reader are taken wandering around as characters go about their day. You experience one character's views, then hop into another's mind, then another. Then you end the day.
That's about it. 194 pages later, and I'm not really sure what I possibly have gained from this book. satisfaction? no. Positive wlw representation? no. A story? no.
I know people say the experience of the writing and setting an atmosphere is worth reading, but I can't agree, I'm sorry.
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Ableism
itsheyfay's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Classism
Moderate: Ableism, Racism, and War
Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, and Lesbophobia