Middling feelings - I strongly enjoyed the whimsicality of the beginning two chapters, but it fell off fairly hard for me once Orlando returned to England and the plot either stalled out to little more than "and then decades passed and Orlando contemplated art" before getting married. The fantasy vs. reality confusion toward the end didn't hit very hard for me since it didn't feel like Orlando made many memories in many of these places; the "ageless person" conceit fell hard despite the book's 300+ length.

I hate to call a book "padded" because books rarely every are. And, I felt like Woolf's loquaciousness in Orlando got in its way far more than it ever served the text, especially with the tendency toward off-hand parentheticals. That being said, I'll absolutely read more Woolf, I just think this one wasn't quite what I wanted it to be.