Virginia Woolf Library: The Waves (Annotated) (Paperback)

from dawnpen

"How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully with all their feet on the ground! Also, how I distrust neat designs of life that are drawn upon half sheets of notepaper. I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words...

from wellsie

For the unprepared reader the first hundred pages can be as baffling as an unknown code. But once the code is cracked, the whole experiment has a brilliant simplicity. Imagine this: a biography of you and your five best friends. From early childhood to death. Told not within the usual matrix of b...

from kristykay22

I'd say that 80% of the reason I started a Virginia Woolf book club was so that I could re-read this one with a group of friends. Here Woolf follows a group of six friends from their early childhood through old age, but what we see are their thoughts, impressions, and inner workings, with just a ...

from StantonK

English speakers everywhere should thank whatever higher power allowed for Virginia Woolf to write in their native tongue. They should, at the same time, thank her for gracing the world with books like "The Waves." Difficult? Of course, but so is existence, and no one, in any tradition, has been ...

from deliriumslibrarian

For some reason, I just can't finish this book. It's like trying to catch the sea -- I read it, forget what I've read, go back, read again, get confused -- but can't get to the end. I love it, moment by moment, but looked at from afar it seems like a task. A challenge. When really it's the simple...