Tag Archives: Virginia Woolf

Orlando
Virginia Woolf

Orlando: A Biography (and I’ve left it’s secondary title in there since it was evidently important to the author) is a new style of biography. Woolf takes as her subject the character Orlando, and writes a kind of biography the world had never seen up to that point…

Post by David J. Peterson Posted on December 2, 2008 – 12:00 am | Posted in A, Reviews | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

Taken as a whole, the book really chews at you in a way that becomes almost habit-forming (like when you’re chewing on your inner cheek—ever get that feeling?). I had to take a day off for reflection after finishing it; get my bearings, and all that…

Post by David J. Peterson Posted on June 27, 2006 – 12:00 am | Posted in A+, Reviews | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway is a wonderful book that is not about lesbians trying to make it in a man’s world…

Post by David J. Peterson Posted on June 27, 2006 – 12:00 am | Posted in A, Reviews | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf

Ever heard someone say, “This book left its footprints on my heart”? I haven’t, and for that I’m grateful. This book did not leave footprints of any kind on my heart, or any of my other organs…

Post by David J. Peterson Posted on June 27, 2006 – 12:00 am | Posted in B-, Reviews | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)