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michellebookaddict's Reviews (822)
2014
4★
Better than the second one. And I don't know if I want to give the third one another try. I didn't like the discussions told between the women (mostly with the Holland family). Too much very personal information. It was only a little funny in the first book. But now it seems that every Holland sister talks this way - not just Prudence (Pru). So far there isn't that many scenes with the sisters and their weird discussion topics for the fourth book
And I do like Emmaline, so that has helped. And Jack is a great guy. There is some flashbacks to the couple's past and their relationships with their exes. I didn't feel the full length chapter flashback of the start to finish of their exes tales necessary (even skipped some of it without missing anything). But this is still better than the second book in the series. Maybe as good as the first.
4★
Better than the second one. And I don't know if I want to give the third one another try. I didn't like the discussions told between the women (mostly with the Holland family). Too much very personal information. It was only a little funny in the first book. But now it seems that every Holland sister talks this way - not just Prudence (Pru). So far there isn't that many scenes with the sisters and their weird discussion topics for the fourth book
And I do like Emmaline, so that has helped. And Jack is a great guy. There is some flashbacks to the couple's past and their relationships with their exes. I didn't feel the full length chapter flashback of the start to finish of their exes tales necessary (even skipped some of it without missing anything). But this is still better than the second book in the series. Maybe as good as the first.
A Room of One’s Own 4⭐️
Despite this being a short novel it was a little hard to read sometimes. The hard part was when I didn’t agree with some of the things that Virginia said.
The part that upset me the most was while she was writing as a fictitious “Mary”, Virginia was saying that women must not act like men.
“It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with only one? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it it...”
At the end she redeemed herself by stating that women have made great progress but that they still need to do more.
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
The other thing I noticed about Virginia Woolf is that she’s a people watcher. I saw that while reading A Room of Own’s Own and now with my current read of her’s, Mrs. Dalloway. She really goes on about the person’s character and sometimes one can even hear Woolf’s judgments when reading.
Despite this being a short novel it was a little hard to read sometimes. The hard part was when I didn’t agree with some of the things that Virginia said.
The part that upset me the most was while she was writing as a fictitious “Mary”, Virginia was saying that women must not act like men.
“It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with only one? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it it...”
At the end she redeemed herself by stating that women have made great progress but that they still need to do more.
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
The other thing I noticed about Virginia Woolf is that she’s a people watcher. I saw that while reading A Room of Own’s Own and now with my current read of her’s, Mrs. Dalloway. She really goes on about the person’s character and sometimes one can even hear Woolf’s judgments when reading.
