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caitlyn_is_nice's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Even though this book is relatively short, it requires a lot of attention to read, making it challenging at times (it's even more challenging to try and reread a sentence, because of Woolfe's stream of consciousness run-on sentences.) But on the whole I found it very interesting to read, and once I got the hang of paying attention and keeping track of whose perspective it was, it was quite enjoyable to read. It's slow paced in the sense that the entire book takes place over the course of one day, but it's fast paced in that every page is stuffed with every character's internal thought processes. It is a very, very clever book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, War, and Classism
helsbelles's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: War
carolinebl's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Mrs Dalloway is my least favourite of Virginia Woolf’s novels so far - perhaps because it is the most impenetrable. I hope that with further analysis it reveals itself to me, for the writing is certainly beautiful. I enjoyed the introduction.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Death and War
winter_b's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I read the physical and audio book simultaneously and that was a lovely way to experience the meandering writing style.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide and Colonisation
Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism
Minor: War
soswiin's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
i’d be lying if i said i understood what was happening 75% of the time but getting through this was just a very beautiful process with lines like “…his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day.” and “…she had become very serious; like a hyacinth, sheathed in glossy green, with buds just tinted, a hyacinth which has had no sun.” i will read anything with pretty prose!
but oh lucrezia
but oh lucrezia
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: War
teeclecticreads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness and Suicide
Moderate: War
Minor: Racism
ellie_debney's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Moderate: War
Minor: Colonisation
itsradsmads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Classism
Moderate: Genocide, Infidelity, Racism, Stalking, and War
vickyoyarzun's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
4.25
"Lo mismo que las olas, que en un día de verano se juntan, se doblan y caen; se juntan y caen; y parece que el mundo entero estuviera diciendo «esto es todo» con más y más gravedad, hasta que incluso el corazón que late en el cuerpo que está tomando el sol en la playa dice también «esto es todo». No temas más, dice el corazón, confiando su carga a algún mar que suspira colectivamente por todas las penas, un mar que se renueva, que comienza a moverse, que se detiene y cae. Y sólo el cuerpo presta atención a la abeja que pasa; a la ola que rompe, al perro que ladra, a lo lejos, ladra y ladra."
Lo único que me faltó para darle 5 estrellas es estar leyendo este libro en Londres. No se puede disfrutar al 100% si no conoces a fondo sus calles, su atmósfera, ese mundo activo, histórico, a veces anticuado, sé que algunas versiones del libro vienen con un plano de la ciudad y siento que es lo más cercano que encuentro a este "recorrido" que se produce en el libro.
Por otro lado, Virginia lo hizo de nuevo, el libro tiene una estructura un poco agotadora de seguir, pero cuando te acostumbras es sumamente gratificante, básicamente vas fluyendo entre la mente de cada uno de los personajes y termina siendo una experiencia increíblemente íntima, cercana, creo que es algo que no he vivido en ningún otro libro...es satisfactorio llegar al final del relato y saber cómo las historias de todos estos personajes se unen pulcramente.
Lo único que me faltó para darle 5 estrellas es estar leyendo este libro en Londres. No se puede disfrutar al 100% si no conoces a fondo sus calles, su atmósfera, ese mundo activo, histórico, a veces anticuado, sé que algunas versiones del libro vienen con un plano de la ciudad y siento que es lo más cercano que encuentro a este "recorrido" que se produce en el libro.
Por otro lado, Virginia lo hizo de nuevo, el libro tiene una estructura un poco agotadora de seguir, pero cuando te acostumbras es sumamente gratificante, básicamente vas fluyendo entre la mente de cada uno de los personajes y termina siendo una experiencia increíblemente íntima, cercana, creo que es algo que no he vivido en ningún otro libro...es satisfactorio llegar al final del relato y saber cómo las historias de todos estos personajes se unen pulcramente.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide and War
balinmoreno's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- 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? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Suicide and War
Minor: Colonisation