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teachocolateandbooks's review
5.0
This was not an easy book to read. I started it last year and put it aside a few times to read something else. I knew that at the end of this book Woolf would have committed suicide. What I didn't expect was how difficult the last year of her life was: the war and bombings that accompanied it, the talk about suicide she and Leonard had (if the Germans had taken England Leonard had purchased extra gas.) Such a difficult book to read and yet, I'm glad I did.
ajitate's review
5.0
Superb. Insights into a writer's mind but also someone struggling with a mental illness and her focussed way of managing and analysing it. Recommended reading alongside her novels and other Bloomsbury lives and books where her diary gives insight into that whole milieu. I'm now tempted to invest in the six volumes of letters even though that will be a big expense of time and money. It's a world worth spending time in as it repays and repays.
aliciat's review
5.0
Superb. Insights into a writer's mind but also someone struggling with a mental illness and her focussed way of managing and analysing it. Recommended reading alongside her novels and other Bloomsbury lives and books where her diary gives insight into that whole milieu. I'm now tempted to invest in the six volumes of letters even though that will be a big expense of time and money. It's a world worth spending time in as it repays and repays.
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