Appreciate your insights Alex, you always make me think about books I’ve read in different ways.
@BookishTexan
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Love the connection you drew between _Mrs. Dalloway_ (which I havent read) and _To The Lighthouse_ (which I have).
@whatpageareyouon
4 жыл бұрын
Bookish Mrs Dalloway is actually my least favorite Woolf of her trifecta between the waves and to the lighthouse! But I love it as its own sort of outlier with how it handles time-I hope you like it!
@defamiliars
4 жыл бұрын
Wow! Insightful! Thank you for this video. I don't know how I didn't realize how each book had a pretty general theme: friendship, family, identity, and solitude! So good. I realize now why Mrs. Dalloway is my favorite. I'm perpetually re-reading it.
@ankithamattam6567
3 жыл бұрын
The way you articulate your thoughts so beautiful. I wonder how nice it would be to hear you narrate audiobooks:)
@whatpageareyouon
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! My voice is something I'm always a little insecure about but doing booktube has helped me be more receptive to it
@jugrajsingh682
2 жыл бұрын
hi I'm a reader and I bought like 10 books by Virginia Woolf at once out of impulse but whenever i sit down to start reading any of her books I find it very hard. the language is a bit complex so maybe you can recommend some books that I could read before getting into Woolf's works to increase my reading level.
@Sarahac8
3 жыл бұрын
I'm reading Mrs. Dalloway currently and it's so ethereal and difficult to really grasp onto for me. I came across your video because I’m trying to get a better understanding of the author and how other people feel about her works. I will say that reading and listening to the audiobook simultaneously is helping me focus.
@whatpageareyouon
3 жыл бұрын
To be honest I find Mrs Dalloway her most difficult of this list! I don't know if it's because it was the first one I read by her or not but something about the phrasing of encapsulating the whole turn of one day disoriented me even more than I'd imagine it would. I hope it's a worthwhile read at the finish line!
@a.g.2790
4 жыл бұрын
Appreciate your thoughts & input here. I have only read A Room of One's Own by her. I researched more about her life & only made me appreciate her more as a writer. I currently reading Mrs Dalloway & look forward to reading the other 2 I have on my shelf- Night & Day and The Waves.
@whatpageareyouon
4 жыл бұрын
A. G. I did some binge research of her in a sort of daze soon after reading Dalloway, it was a wonderful rabbit hole. The Waves is my favorite!
@HannahsBooks
4 жыл бұрын
What a thoughtful discussion-really wonderful. I love Woolf’s reviews and essay, but-embarrassingly-have not read her fiction. I have to remedy that this year. (I am saving your video to watch again after I read.)
@whatpageareyouon
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Hannah. I think having her review and essays read under your belt it’ll make her fiction all the more immersive!
@tomreadsthings7145
4 жыл бұрын
I reeeeeeeeally need to read some of her work! Great video
@MatthewSciarappa
4 жыл бұрын
U R lovely ✨📚
@whatpageareyouon
4 жыл бұрын
Matthew Sciarappa 💫💫
@danecobain
4 жыл бұрын
Historically, I didn't much like Virginia Woolf, but I've been getting a little more into her recently!
@whatpageareyouon
4 жыл бұрын
She’s always fun to revisit!
@NickBoston
3 жыл бұрын
Personally, reading Mrs. Dalloway at age 19 didn't pique my interests whatsoever. When I re-read it at 32, I found it to be incredibly profound. Mostly because of the concept that we are the accumulation of our own decisions, which is our fate. Wait some time, and give her another go. I don't think any other author has had such a profound effect on my consciousness.
@danecobain
3 жыл бұрын
@@NickBoston That's almost identical to my experience!
@haroldniver
4 жыл бұрын
I’m embarrassed to say I have not read any of her works. Which, in your estimation, is the best to start with?
@whatpageareyouon
4 жыл бұрын
Harold Niver I’d give it to Mrs Dalloway in terms of access, but To The Lighthouse for the truest sense of Woolf’s work-but the Waves is my favorite! So I’d say any good starting place haha
@napakvanich8811
4 жыл бұрын
May I join in? (-: I think Jacob’s Room is a really great piece to start with. The novel itself almost is a showcase of Woolf on the process of developing her stream-of-consciousness in writing. (Lots of jarring thoughts and big paragraph breaks lol - I think it’s the first novel that was published by the press that her husband runs, so she has a freedom to be as she likes to in a way). It is definitely a big shift from her earlier novel (like The Voyage Out) which fits more into the convention of fiction writing... Maybe it’s just me, but having begun with Jacob’s Room and moving on to Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse , I could see Woolf blossoming (or rather, her style crystalizing) into a writer she’s become, perhaps to reach her peak at The Waves.
@napakvanich8811
4 жыл бұрын
And I’m torn to decide which ones (Mrs D/To the LH/The Waves) are my favorite myself. If I would recommend it to others, I might, like you, say Mrs Dalloway due to its success and pretty much its being a rather well-rounded representation of Woolf as an author. But I’m 100% with you with The Waves-this would be my personal choice. It’s the most special imho and very deserving of its own place. It’s the author-matured, and have already seen much in the world-writing herself out through her life experiences, of friendship, loss, love, death, and perhaps the totality of awareness that is exactly what Woolf-suffering from her mental illness at the time-much needs to allow herself to believe she can still be-just be. (We know how her life ends). Anyway, lots of my opinion also come from reading A Writer’s Diary along with these novels. It allows you to see her more as a person behind the pages, her struggles with life and writing, as well as her abundant joys and excitements when her ideas come to fruition. (:
@swisssaidal2970
3 жыл бұрын
is it normal that I don’t understand some parts of her books? Sometimes it gets complex. Any advice? I’m 15 btw
@kirillkhvenkin6001
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your posts. I wish the voice was less monotone though. It is like you are not really excited about a book, but find it a chore.
@whatpageareyouon
4 жыл бұрын
Kirill Khvenkin sadly I’m cursed with it outside of videos too! Thank you for liking my posts 💫
@kirillkhvenkin6001
4 жыл бұрын
@@whatpageareyouon you just haven't found your style.
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