![]() ![]() Compare the "astonishingly beautiful" Mrs. It's not structured around a plot but is about relationships, about changing roles of women, about loss, about the experience of all of these in one's life over time. Nicole Kidman played Ms Woolf beautifully in film and read her words equally as beautifully here. I will be reading it again soon in hopes that I will digest more of the story she told, because I think I missed much too much of it this time. It allows the reader to revel in the beauty of language. ![]() One cannot allow her mind to wander away from the words on the page. I think this book is probably a five star read - but it is NOT an easy read. So I was very excited to read more of her writings. I will recommend it to every woman I meet for the rest of my life. That book could have been written in 2017. She was opining on the problems for women who lived a century and a half ago - and yet it felt completely modern. ![]() She took problems that I have seen in American society over the last 50 years, and explored the causes and the solutions. I was shocked by Ms Woolf's smart and intuitive view of the roles of gender. Earlier this year I read A Room of One's Own which was so unbelievably good that I was blown away. ![]()
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