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I remember when I started this I thought that I wouldn't like it, but it turned out to be a really moving exploration of one man's life as seen through the eyes of others. You can sort of see Woolf experimenting with the form, yet it all somehow comes together and rearranges your perspective like an Impressionist painting.
panVirginia Woolf is just not my style. I can appreciate the writing of individual passages, but the lack of plot generally leaves me bored. I tried reading this in print and could not seem to make progress, so I switched to audio and went back to read individual passages when I felt I was missing details.
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pickThird in my reread of Virginia Woolf this year, I see why this isn‘t her most loved book but her prose always glitters so much I have to rate everything she‘s ever written as a pick. I think she‘s probably the best writer of prose in English I‘ve ever read, and even if this early novel (her first ‘major‘ novel though I‘m not exactly sure what that means) doesn‘t have her best characters or observations, it‘s still Virginia Woolf.
Yes! Virginia and I “have a thing going on” 🤓 I can‘t wait to launch into her third diary but I am going to read “Jacob‘s Room” first after I finish her second diary...Whew...
I love how she is sharing her life. Just as good as any reality show to me...
so-so"Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title."
Had to be one I didn't love. ?
This is a transitional work. Stylistically it is the Woolf of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, a novel composed of glimpses and fragments, bits and pieces of a life, broken interactions, meditations of what it all means. The writing is stirring, brilliant. And I savoured passages. BUT ⬇️
Spending Friday night on my parents' verandah, getting reacquainted with Virginia. (I've been neglecting her lately.)
panA hard read. Couldn't wait to get done with it so I could move on to next yet took so long to finish-_- Felt bad for Bonamy though. Still don't have much of an idea as to Jacob's character.
"The observer is choked with observations" as rightly said by a Wordpress article.
I shouldn't have started with Jacob's Room when I had an entire collection of Woolf and now only a few days left before I have to return the book:(
#QuotsyFeb19 Day 26: What are we in #Search of, truly? This is a great question from Woolf herself. I have yet to read my Woolf novels! Perhaps for our #WomenReadWomen2019 theme.
"The lamps of London uphold the dark as upon the points of burning bayonets."
I know it sounds weird but I don't really do favorites in music, art, etc. However, now reading Jacob's Room, I realize that I do have a favorite author: Virginia Woolf. Whenever I read her writing, it's as if she's describing memories that are not mine but somehow already exist in my brain.
The #TBRBowlOfDestiny picked out my very first Virginia Woolf read! So far, so good! 😊
pickThis is like an anti-Bildungsroman, impressionistic, essayistic, with brief sketches of a character--Jacob Flanders--whose name is his destiny. It is elegiac in a way; Jacob is representative of the young men who died during the war. It's also sly & satirical, where Woolf mocks patriarchy & male-centric academia & institutions. Even if the style is fragmented, Woolf's prose is fresh, original, a breath of fresh air; the scenes unfold like a film.
Tired, sad flowers after a morning of rain and an afternoon of clouds, and a book I haven't read yet. #startswithJ #AndItsAugust @RealLifeReading
panWhat a fight, this one. My mind kept wandering and Woolf did nothing to prevent it.
A book consisting of fragments of the lives of people around Jacob. Himself we hardly get to know.
I am having troubles liking Virginia Woolf. O yes, I liked Orlando and Mrs Dalloway but I just can't relate to her experimental novels, like The Waves and this one.
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How amazing is this cover. 😍 #ihavethisthingwithbookcovers
